Unfortunately last week our school closed. We will finish out the year together and then we all move on to other things. I am sad to leave this very smart, very sweet, group of students. Small groups of students may not be a good thing if you are thinking about the financial side of running a school, but if you are thinking about the connections between students and teachers and parents, being small enables us to know each other better. Everyone here will move on to the next thing knowing that good people are all around you, if you take the time to get to know them. With that said, we move on with peace and determination to be good to ourselves, and to other people.
“Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.” -- Winston Churchill
Gr. 7/8:
Eighth grade was testing so we looked at a link site with a top ten sites for kids. We explored some of the links and we particularly liked the link to the History Channel. If you have a high speed connection you can watch segments on a variety of things. We watched the St. Patrick segment. Very interesting.
I don’t think the History Channel is a 2.0 site but it is very good and so it is the site of the week.
Next week we will resolve what to do with our Wikipedia entry in light of the school closing. We will also vote on a book for the book club.
Gr. 6:
Media Lab: We shot the Titanic segment for our Cultural Connections News Program. It’s going to be fantastic. I will post it before the next library which will be April 2nd. Great work sixth grade!
Gr. 5:
Media Lab: We assigned roles and discussed how we will solve the "too many episodes" problem. Next library we will build our set and we will build our characters and will review the script. We will start shooting The Bremin Town Musicians on April 9th.
Gr. 4:
This week a boy chose D’aulaires Book of Greek Myths. He chose to read about Hermes. I had not read that one so we were all laughing when Hermes says to Apollo that he couldn’t possibly have stolen his cows because he was only a newborn babe! and didn’t even know what a cow was! A great choice and of course the book was promptly checked out.
Gr. 3:
This week a the girl chose to read Shrek by William Steig. We had read this together last year but no one complained about reading it again. We all laughed at this very off beat book.
Gr. 2:
We read The Country Bunny and the Little Golden Shoes. The images in this book stay with you forever.
Gr. 1:
We read The Country Bunny and the Little Golden Shoes. I read this one to them last year and they loved hearing it again.
Gr. K:
We read The Country Bunny and the Little Golden Shoes -- they loved it.
