Let's Do Nothing! At South Prairie

The K-2 students read the Goldfinch Award nominee- Let's Do Nothing! Like Mrs. Ellis's kids, we tried various ways to pretend to do nothing!
Check out the kindergarten and first graders in this animoto video...doing nothing!



The Second Graders played a board game called The Game of Nothing. The person who came in last, won! Here are some second graders from Mrs. Coveney's class playing the game.

Let's Do Nothing!

Students in one of Mrs. Ellis's kindergarten sections practiced doing "nothing" as Frankie and Sal do in Tony Fucile's Goldfinch Award-nominated book Let's Do Nothing. Just like Frankie and Sal, students tried being trees and doing nothing. It was much harder than they suspected!

To watch a YouTube trailer for the book, see below:

Using the Blog

Fifth grade students spent time in the computer lab exploring the author links and interactive reading links from the blog, as well as updating their Destiny Quest accounts. Many students found author Jeff Kinney's website to be especially entertaining; also, Dr. Seuss' website was a popular option.

Destiny Quest App

Here is Mrs. White showing off her new App- Destiny Quest! Destiny Quest can now be accessed through this free app!

Go beyond the walls of our library with the Destiny Quest Mobile App! With this new app, you can search our library catalog anytime! No more waiting for library day! Not only that, but you can check your account, add to your virtual bookshelf, place holds, and view top books in the library. It is a free download. For more information and some screen shots of this new app, click here.

When you download the app, it will ask for your district's web address. Here is the one that you need: http://destiny.dc-grimes.k12.ia.us.

Here are two tutorials to help you get started: