Celebrate Children's Book Week, May 2-8, 2016

Children's Book Week

Celebrate National Library Week

                           National Library Week

Meet Jeff Kinney, the Author of Wimpy Kid series Live!

Jeff Kinney's 11th book is coming out on Nov. 1, 2016!
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School Libraries Transform Learning to Ensure that Every Student Succeeds

Megan McDonald is talking about how school libraries transform lives

April is School Library Month

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how school librarians transform learning...

School Library Snapshot

Lights On For Education April 21, 2016

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Read Across America Day 2016

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Read Across America Day 2016---- Forest Road read for 8,350 minutes!!!

On March 2, to celebrate Dr. Seuss's birthday, Forest Road students dressed like their favorite Dr. Seuss character. Students, staff, and teachers had DEAR (DROP EVERYTHING AND READ) time for 15 minutes at the end of the day and read for a total of 8,350 minutes.
 

1st grade student pairs working on animal puzzles

International Night Performance at Forest Road

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 International Night Performance

3rd Graders Visited Asia!

Please CLICK the following map to see the country presentations created by Ms. Serra's Class.

 

Please CLICK the following map to see the country presentations created by Ms. Dash's Class.

5th Grade State Presentations

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5th Grade Students Presents the Cultures of Latin America!

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Country Posters created by Ms. Bartell's and Ms. Blankshine's 5th Grade Students

European News brought to you by 6th Grade Students!

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4th Graders Explored South America through the Inquiry Process (Connect - Wonder - Investigate - Construct - Express - Reflect)!

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Country Posters created by 4th grade students

The 4th grade students were placed into triads and each group chose a country in South America to research. Some of them were able to make connections to the countries they were researching.  

They wondered about things they wanted to learn about their chosen country and learned to conduct an investigation.  They collected information from the CultureGrams database.  After taking notes about the capital, population, sports, clothing, etc. of their country on a graphic organizer, students learned how to construct a poster on their country using Google Drawing. Students worked hard in groups to design country posters including important information about their countries.

Finally, students learned how to convert their Google Drawings into Google Slides so that their slides can be made into a slide show.  Student triads expressed what they learned about their country in front of the whole group. What a wonderful experience!