We need your help with our Cultural Ex‘travel’ganza. We will be celebrating our cultures with a night of food, crafts, displays and entertainment.
We would appreciate the involvement of all the Reeds Road families and friends to either participate or attend this magical evening. ‘Booths’ will be set-up to display various cultural items (clothing, artwork, hand crafts, etc.) along with a craft of the culture to be made by participants. Do you have a special dance, music or other presentation you’d like to share? Maybe you have a favorite dish or food item you could supply as a sample of the cuisine. All are encouraged to wear traditional fashions.
After reading the story, Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs, by Judi and Ron Barrett, Ms. Zarrilli’s fourth grade students got busy creating their own versions. After writing and illustrating, the students recorded their stories through Photostory. Enjoy some samples by clicking below. If you would like to see more, you will find them on Ms. Zarrilli’s eboard.
Ms. Hally’s 1st grade class received the book Making Cents by Elizabeth Keeler Robinson.After reading the book to the class, the students sent a thank you note to Mrs. Keeler-Robinson.Much to their surprise, Mrs. Keeler-Robinson wrote back and shared how her daughters had trouble telling one coin from the other and that’s how she came up with the idea for the Making Cents book.
The students were surprised to hear from the author and were very excited to write her back.The students used the writing process to write her questions like: do you really have a lemon tree in your backyard, do you have money tree, did your daughters raised money with a lemonade stand?Mrs. Keeler-Robinson e-mailed her response and posted a special message on her website.The students loved seeing that Mrs. Keeler-Robinson wrote about them on her website.You can see it too!Click here:http://www.elizabethkeelerrobinson.com/
FUN FACTS:
~The author’s mother is Ann Keeler (Mrs. Regina Silver’s volunteer)
The students of Mrs. Hughes’s 5th grade class completed an essay about their favorite activity. Using their writing skills the students wrote about an activity that is special to them and why. Each student then created a PhotoStory. Click the name to view the shows created by Tyler, Azaan, Amin, Hetvi and Natalie.
People all over the world were consumed yesterday by the historic inauguration events of the 44th president of our great nation, and for the students at Reeds Road, it was no different.While watching the 3rd grade students witness the swearing in and speech given by President Barack Obama, it was unclear how much they understood.Afterwards, the teachers asked each student to describe, in one word, what the inauguration of President Barack Obama meant to them. The computer lab teacher, Mrs. Monroe, took the words and created a word cloud using an internet website (www.wordle.net).Thanks to Kevin Jarrett, a local computer lab teacher for sharing this great idea! A word cloud gives greater prominence to words that appear more frequently, then you have the ability to customize it.Pictured below are word clouds from our third graders, then a school-wide word cloud from those who participated from Grades 2-6.From the images, it is clear that the students understood the importance of this exciting event. It may be difficult to find, but in the botttom word cloud a 4th grader summarized the event as Obama-tastic!
As the new year begins, many people reflect upon the former year and take the opportunity to set new goals and promises for the upcoming year. Mrs. Mollenkopf’s third grade students used voicethread.com to record their New Year Resolutions. Their resolutions are goals that they wish to accomplish in 2009. We look forward to checking back with room 32 to see if they were able to keep their commitments!
Mrs. Quinn’s 5th Grade Social Studies classes completed their unit on Native Americans.As a culminating project, each child created a family totem pole.Each animal on the totem pole was carefully chosen after an interview to correspond to a character trait of each family member.A few of the students were selected to create the Photostory projects below.
