Interactive Thanksgiving Research Project

Two of our Ninth Age reading classes partnered over the past three days to explore the true facts behind the first Thanksgiving. The students worked hard on their webquests with partners to explore the facts behind this fall holiday. Webquests are challenging because they require following multi-step directions, critical thinking and collaboration skills, and comprehension of informational text. Terrific job, readers!

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Second Week of School

We had another incredible week at school! The boys read the first three chapters of Stuart Little, completed their first math folder paper, created a virtual character scrapbook on Scholastic, learned how to create a web planner for composition, wrote "All About Me" composition, posted comments to Kid Blog, finished geography flipbooks, started All About Me slideshows on Photo Peach, and researched questions for the history prehistoric project...

and it was only a four day week!

 

Harris Burdick Reading Class Project

We have spent the last two reading classes working on our Harris Burdick project. Harris Burdick is a mysterious illustrator/author who disappeared without a trace after passing along his illustrations, never returning with the matching stories as promised. For years students and famous authors alike have been writing stories based on the images. We read the introduction to "The Chronicles of Harris Burdick" together on Thursday, and will share our stories as well as read exerpts of famous authors' interpretations during our final class on Monday.
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