During our morning assembly, students in grades 1-3 celebrated Hispanic Heritage Month by listening to Ms. Gardeazbal read the book "Pepe and the Parade - A Celebration of Hispanic Heritage" by Tracey Kyle. Outside of the Multipurpose Room, the students can read biographies of 25 famous Hispanic Americans. … [Read more...] about Hispanic Heritage Month
Making Creations in Grade One
Today, September 16, is National Play-Doh Day. We celebrated by learning cool facts and also making our own creations. … [Read more...] about Making Creations in Grade One
Just Make a Mark and See Where it Takes You…
Inspired by Peter H. Reynolds' The Dot, students in Mrs. Minervini's class created their own dot masterpieces. Similar to the main character of this book, students embarking on First Grade are encouraged to take risks and try new things.
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Ms. Rylick's class took part in a Book Tasting today! They sampled four genres of books from the classroom library. The students filled in their menus with their opinions on the books that they sampled. Our minds were opened to the wide world of reading! They ended the book tasting with the chance to go book shopping. … [Read more...] about Book Tasting Today!
Growth Mindset
Ms. Rylick's grade 3 class has been focusing on Growth Mindset the last few days. On the first day of school, the student learned about neurons and how the brain makes new neural connections each time we learn something new. In other words, we can grow our smarts! Today we participated in the Great Marshmallow Challenge. The students were tasked to build the tallest tower using only string, tape, spaghetti, and one marshmallow. Although none of our groups were successful, we learned an important lesson about failure. Failure is a necessary part of the learning process and we hope to learn from … [Read more...] about Growth Mindset