Summer Library Leaderboard – See who has the most points!

Snow Summer Library Leaderboard 

500 points for performing a flannel board story. This is “The 3 Billy Goats Gruff” 100 points for making a video of their performance. 🙂

SeeSaw.Me – your own digital portfolio

What is SeeSaw.Me?

SeeSaw Book Review Example

SeeSaw Book Retelling (5 finger style) 1. setting 2. characters. 3. What happened at the beginning? 4. middle? 5. end?

Find a book that you have already read. Take a picture of it. Add either a voice note and/or a caption to say:

1. The book’s title and author.

2. Whether or not you would recommend the book to other students.

3. What you liked or didn’t like about the book.

***Added Bonus – 4. Make a video of you reading the book aloud. Make sure you aren’t sitting too close to another student to help make sure that you can be heard. If it sounds pretty good, add it to your journal.

Google Classroom

We will be making a drawing using Google Drawing and turning it in to Google Classroom.

Typing Practice with Typing.com

Make sure you log on to earn badges and get a reward!

SeeSaw.me – your own digital portfolio

Choose Sign In and Choose “I am a Student”. Try to join my class! I will give you the code.

Choosing a Poem Assignment

1. Choose a poem from a poetry book.
2. Copy your poem onto paper.
   1. Include your name
   2. the poems name in quotes
   3. the author’s name
   4. the text of the poem

Go to Google Classroom and Find this Assignment – and Open It.

Next, Create a New Google Doc

Type everything from your paper onto the new Google Doc.

Lastly, click “Turn it In”

“The Spider and the Fly”

One of my favorite poems is

“I Have a Little Shadow” by Robert Louis Stevenson

Disney “I Have a Little Shadow” (footage from Peter Pan)

2 year old reciting “I Have a Little Shadow”

For poetry month, we will make Acrostic poems at this link:

Make an Acrostic Poem

Acrostic poems use the first letter of a topic for each line of the poem. Here are some examples:

April is Poetry Month!

Go to Myon.com and search for Poetry either by:

Search box OR

Choose Browse, Language Arts, POETRY (There are many SONGS included here- did you know that many songs are poems?)

Read at least one book of poems or book about poetry

When you’re done, read anything else on Myon (free choice)

Visit poet Shel Silverstein’s website – Games & Activities (or just explore)

Visit Shel Silverstein’s YouTube channel

Shel Silverstein’s Poem, “Sick” performed by a 6 year old

Shel Silverstein’s Poem “Boa Constrictor” text

Shel Silverstein Singing and Playing Guitar – poems “Boa Constrictor” “Unicorn”

Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” (Simpsons)

Poems Kids Like – find one you’d like to read aloud!

Read up book(s) of your choice on Myon.com today! At Snow School – remember that there is a March is Reading Month reading contest going on! Have you met your 20 minutes a day goal?

Also, go to Google Classroom and answer my question about what book or books you are reading today in Myon.

Another free time idea – read stories at the Michigan Electronic Library  (www.mel.org) then click on “kids” and “storytime” or click on my link here Storytime

Read up book(s) of your choice on Myon.com today! At Snow School – remember that there is a March is Reading Month reading contest going on! Have you met your 20 minutes a day goal?

Also, go to Google Classroom and look up what books you have checked out in the school library catalog.

Log in to the Destiny Library Catalog to see what items you have checked out. Use your 200 number as BOTH your name and password in Destiny.

You will try to write down what books you have and even the due date, before clicking “Turn it In”.

Do you know how to RIGHT CLICK on a Chrome Book?