Dragon Island

Second graders are creating an island for the dragon from My Father's Dragon. They made their island out of salt dough covering up crumpled pieces of paper. Here they are painting the islands. The next step will be to map out their islands using a grid system.

1st Graders Publish Poems about the Moon

I visited Laura's first grade classroom to help them with a project about the moon. They had written several sentences using adjectives to describe the moon. I worked with them on revising: the students cut apart their sentences and rearranged them until they liked the way their poem sounded. Some students even deleted one or two sentences. Then they published these poems with a painting of the moon. These paintings became flaps that lift up to show the poem hidden underneath.