Monday, April 28, 2014

Great News!!

The project that I applied for through Donorschoose.org was fully funded in four short days!!  I am so excited.  Refer to my last post if you missed the details of my project.

Thursday, April 24, 2014

Please help our classroom!

Subject: Help me build a better classroom. You can help by choosing to give through Donor's Choose or by forwarding this message on to people who may be interested in helping my classroom! 


Hi Friends,

I want to make sure my students have the materials they need to succeed, so I just created a request for my classroom at DonorsChoose.org:

The "STEM" of All Learning

Give to my classroom by May 1, 2014 and your donation will be doubled thanks to 100 Women in Hedge Funds. Just enter the code 100WOMEN on the payment page and you'll be matched dollar for dollar (up to $500).

If you chip in to help my students, you'll get awesome photos and our heartfelt thanks.

Thanks so much,
Holly

P.S. If you know anyone who may want to help my classroom, please pass this along!

Tuesday, April 8, 2014

Animal Research Project

Nonfiction Research Sites

Dear Families, 


This week we will be starting a new project. We are going to study animals.
Each child chose their top three favorite animals and we did our best 
to pick their number one choice. Each student in our class will be assigned 
a different animal. The students' will be doing some research and writing 
a report. The step-by-step process of organizing and writing a report is more 
important at this early writing development stage than the amount 
information gathered. Each child will be setting up a research folder
with specific steps to follow. We will then create a nonfiction article along
a Quadrama about our animal. 
Here is an example of what a Quadrama looks like:



Learning Goal:
Students read to find information from a variety of reference sources, 
follow a structured writing process to complete a simple report, 
and practice basic computer operations as they research an animal and create a product.