A Visit with Some Writing Friends from 4-Chertok

Fourth graders finished a unit on writing folktales and First graders in my class finished writing fairy tales. So, we decided to get the two classes together to share our stories today. My kids learned what a moral was and I think the fourth graders were entertained by our stories of magic and royalty set "Once Upon a Time" or "Long, long ago..."

Check out our Digital Books

It is official... we have published our list/pattern books on our class web page. The kids typed their stories, imported clip art to their iPhoto libraries, and then imported the pictures into their Keynote presentations. I exported them as PowerPoints and loaded them up to our Google site.

Now we are working on creating print and digital innovations of Mo Willems' Pigeon and Elephant & Piggie books. What would you have Pigeon say?

Holiday Concert Time!

We are stars! Thank you Mrs. Cardillo for all of your hard work in preparing for the concert.

We wish everyone a happy and healthy New Year!

Check out our Fairy Tale and Winter Reader's Theatre

Ms. Ball has been working hard with the class preparing to perform plays. We practiced reading with expression and got to use puppets too! Watch our movies below.

Fun with Reading

We have great readers in our class and we can prove it! Listen to four of the fantastic readers read Hey Diddle Diddle. They practiced reading with expression and even threw in a funny voice too!

To hear them click here.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone!

To put you in the holiday spirit we have recorded a song for you.

Click here to hear the Turkey Song.

Watch the movie below. We made corn muffins and then had a feast just like the Pilgrims.

November's Character Education Awards

It is my pleasure to announce that two children in our class won the Cherry Lane Character Education Award for the month of November.

Congratulations!

The class is working on being TRRFC (terrific). That means we are trustworthy, responsible, respectful, fair, and we show citizenship.