Wednesday, January 9, 2008

A Day in the Library -- Grades K28 -- Part I

G7/8
Book Group: book to be selected next week.
Project: Create a Wikipedia entry for our school.
Next week: we will discuss the sandbox, the controversy, sites that are out there, other info the students have collected and the next steps.
G6:
Book Group: book to be selected next week.
Project: Create Cultural Connections News program, each student writes a segment that includes a popular cultural reference.
Next week: we will pick topics and talk about where it's all going.
G5: 
Book Group: to be selected next week.
Project: Modernize lesser Grimm's Fairy Tale and create book.
Next Week: we will discuss what Grimm's Fairy Tales we have found and I will read an example of an original Grimm's Fairy Tale and a modernized one.
G4:
read Ch. 1 of Tuck Everlasting
G3:
read Ch. 1 of James and the Giant Peach -- may read Greek myths again next week -- I thought the students didn't like the crazy Greek myths and now they are upset to stop reading them and want more . . . may alternate between myths and peach.
G2:
Read Ch. 6 of The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe. Great book.
G1:
read Ch. 5 of My Father's Dragon. Lots of laughter. very wacky. 
K:
read Peter Rabbit. Students didn't want to read it at first and then everyone loved it. Immediately checked out -- a good sign.

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