Brrrr! January!

Fifth grade students using Britannica Online.

Fourth graders doing soil research.

Fourth graders making soil folders.

A lot of great things happened in the Moye library during the month of January.  Fourth and fifth graders began research on soil and the planets, respectively, using print resources and Encyclopedia Britannica Online.  The fourth graders used the mouse (mice?) to manipulate a photograph of the layers of soil and the fifth graders were able to see actual photographs of the planet they were studying.  The Britannica Online database is wonderful because students can highlight passages and see a Spanish translation of the English text and can opt to have the text read aloud to the them by the computer. 

First Day of Winter

Pre-kindergartners built a snowman after reading the cumulative tale The First Day of Winter by Denise Fleming.  We used a chart paper snowman as our "canvas" and added to him a variety of things - one red cap, two (blue) mittens, three striped scarves...ten peanut toes -   to make him look like the snowman in the book.  Each class posed for a picture with their snowman creation and Ms. Manso and Ms. Blanco combined efforts to make a very CHILL display outside the library door.