Help Our Library Grow Up

I created a project on Donors Choose over the summer called "Help Our Library Grow Up". As I was weeding out books from my 3rd grade classroom library to prepare for my new 5th grade students, I noticed that there were not many for them to choose from. Plus, those that were left were not the best for 5th grade readers. I heard that US Cellular would be funding many classroom projects in September and October throughout Iowa and a few other states.

The books that I selected were high quality, high interest books. Many fit our genre studies, others are series books. These arrived Thursday after school. I spread them out on our coffee table for students to see as they arrived Friday. They were so excited and already have selected many that they plan to read. I look forward to discussing them with my students as they enjoy them. A huge thanks to US Cellular for making this happen for my students!

Spooktacular Event

It was so great to see many of my families at the Spooktacular Event on Thursday Night. There were so many family friendly activities to participate in. I hosted "Reading in the Dark". It's amazing how a flashlight and a dark room gets kids excited to read! Perhaps, this could be done at home!

Global Read Aloud

Click here to read about Rue's experience with the Global Read Aloud!
http://cblearns365.blogspot.com/2013/10/rue-elementary-participates-in-global.html

Canadian Teachers

Today on Mrs. Crain’s Mystery Skype, we figured out that the group of teachers we Skyped with lived in Manitoba, Canada!  They wanted us to help them and teach them how to Mystery Skype so they could do it more often with their students, so they will have a fun time in social studies.

by Saria

On Friday, our students got to teach teachers in Canada how to Mystery Skype. They loved the idea of Teacher vs. Students. The students "won". The teachers also taught us how to do a Mystery Number Skype. Each class picks a number and has to ask the other class yes/no questions to try to identify the number. It was a blast and so much math was practiced in a short amount of time.
-Mrs. Crain