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Saturday, January 26, 2013

Our Own (Un)Interrupting Chickens

Students in K - 2 library classes heard all about the little red chicken's antics this week as we read Interrupting Chicken, by David Ezra Stein. The book is another one of the Iowa Goldfinch nominees for this year. A variety of activities supported their discussions about the book--thanks to Candlewick Press and BestChildren'sBooks.org for their great ideas and activities!

Kindergarten students drew pictures to show how they would not be interrupting chickens:

Students in 1st grade wrote out their ideas to keep from being interrupting chickens:

And 2nd graders created their own interrupting chickens with advice to avoid being one themselves!

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Visualization with Poetry

Students in kindergartner recently practiced visualization as part of a poetry unit. As they listened to the Jack Prelutsky poem "Green Giant," they imagined what their green giant would look like. After talking about the poem's details, students drew their own green giants. Thanks to the creator of the blog "One Extra Degree" for the wonderful idea!

Saturday, March 17, 2012

Voicethread Book Talks

Fifth graders at DCE recently wrote book reviews and recorded their work onto Voicethread. Click on the links below to listen to their reviews. Enjoy!

Day 1 (5P & 5E) Reviews: http://voicethread.com/share/2670599/

Day 3 (5C & 5V) Reviews: http://voicethread.com/share/2670768/

Day 5 (5R & 5G) Reviews: http://voicethread.com/share/2670803/

Friday, February 3, 2012

It's Not a Stick!

K-2 DCG students read Not a Stick! by Antoinette Portis. It is one of our Goldfish-nominated books for 2011-2012.

We really wanted students to see that the book is all about celebrating kids' imagination. In the book a pig finds a stick. It is quickly followed by an uncreative, literal voice telling the pig to be careful with that stick. The pig spends the book showing the voice all of the different things he imagines the stick to be.

The original sheet

After reading this fun book, the kids had a chance to use their imaginations and show us that "It's Not a Stick"....it's a ____________ by creating their own pictures. You can access the handout HERE.

Check out some of their artwork below!