Storybird Books!

Students have been working hard writing different forms of poetry. We learned how poems have stanzas, rhythm, and don't always rhyme. After writing several different types of poems, students created a book of poems on Storybird. Storybird is a website that provides artwork and templates for students to use to create an online book! Students were able to leave comments as they read each other's books! So fun!

Author visit

Hello, Colleen here. I am the student blogger this week. Today author Paula Young Shelton came to talk about her book, Child Of The Civil Rights Movement. Mrs. Shelton was a great storyteller because she emphasized her words when something was very important. She told us about a protest march and having dinner with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.! Today was a fun day!

Valentine Fun!

Students had a lot of fun at our Valentine party! They had to stack conversation hearts to see who could create the tallest tower, drop rose petals into a bucket, make cards, and make a cute craft! Thank you to all the parents that helped organize!

Working on writing

Hi this is Sam D and I'm blogging this week. This will be about our writing assignment. We have been writing about people, places, and inventions to write reports. Today we used computers, books, and our devices.

Messages of Hope

Today we visited Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital with our buddies to deliver coloring books, stickers, crayons, glue, and other scrapbooking materials that Long had collected over the passed week.  These items will be used by children that are patients at the hospital. 

We also took our "Message of Hope" to the hospital and placed them in a treasure box under a giant Christmas tree. "Message of Hope" is a program the hospital began last year.  People can write a short note to patients and caregivers in the hospital to let them know you are thinking about them.  Their goal is to get over 200,000 messages this year!

After we dropped off the messages, we learned a little history of the hospital and got to play on the new playground built for young patients.  It was a wonderful and meaningful trip!

Rocks, Rock!

Hi, I'm Loren and I am going two tell you what rocks rock is. Every one in our class got to do a science project  about rocks and we got two make our own two!Most of our class loved doing it and even our teacher had a great time watching her students git greatt at science.We also got a paper that had a lot of questions on it,it said stuff like what do you think your type of rock is and how do you know.Any way we had a great time and we already got to unwrap our rocks!They turned out great and we hope we get to do something else like this again.

Weathering Walk

In Science we are studying Rocks, Weathering, and Erosion.  While the weather was nice we took a walk in Crestwood Park to find signs of Weathering and Erosion.  Students worked in groups and used their own devices to take pictures of what they found.  They also took notes.  When we returned to the classroom, students presented different forms of weathering and erosion they found!