4th Grade Journalists!

Choosing a topic of interest, the fourth graders became journalists by writing their own feature articles!  Magazine editors Mrs. McLean, Mrs. McColgan and Ms. Hanson taught their students the tools to create writing that would appeal to their audience - YOU!

Enjoy these digital magazines written by the fourth grade... don't be surprised if you see one on a newsstand near you!

Special thanks to Mrs. Rafferty for her help on this wonderful project.

TIPS:

1.  Takes 30 seconds to load.  Press CLICK to READ

2.  Bottom right - click ARROW to go to FULL SCREEN 

3.  Controls on top:  ENLARGE, ADVANCE, SEARCH, SHARE

Animals, Animals, Animals - 3rd Grade Web Designers!

The third graders did a fantastic job designing websites about invertebrates and vertebrates. They followed complex directions, helped each other, uploaded videos and used their creativity as you will see!  Please click to view!

The really cool part is the second grade will be using these websites for research as part of their animal unit.  Thank you to the third grade for helping students to learn!

Source:  The Animal Kingdom  

Mrs. Parr’s Class

Nate                                                Lia

Ava                                                 Aileen

Zaida                                              Finley

Morgan                                         Ben

Mack                                             Gianna

Ada                                                Sam

Catherine                                     Alex

Teja                                               Liam

Henry

Mrs. Kearing's Class

Gage                                              Julia M.

Brian                                             Noelle

Mason                                           Matthew

Samantha                                    Julia P.

Lizzie                                            Grace R.

 Eli                                                Maddie

Alejandro                                    Madeline

Amelia                                         Aarav

Grace H.                               

Mrs. Longo's  Class

Cecelia                                          Keegan

Seth                                               Audrey

Jed                                                 Sophia

Zoe                                                 Bobby

Domenic                                       Briann Lee

Abbie                                             Caitlin

Ben G.                                           Amalia

Brendan                                        Grace

Ben J.                                            Gabrielle

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle!

After Mrs. Bone's presentation, the fifth grade took to their iPads to create a visual slideshow demonstrating their knowledge.  The iPad app they used is called Haiku Deck - way to go fifth graders!  Let's all remember everything can be reused, reduced and/or recycled!

Click here to see Mrs. Bone's Presentation.


Created with Haiku Deck, presentation software that inspires




Created with Haiku Deck, presentation software that inspires

Created with Haiku Deck, presentation software that inspires

Created with Haiku Deck, presentation software that inspires


Created with Haiku Deck, presentation software that inspire

Holiday Traditions!!

Celebrate the holidays with Center School Sightings!  Samantha, CSS videographer, captured the students in kindergarten through fifth grades as they put on a holiday assembly filled with song and cheer.  Enjoy!

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Another wonderful tradition takes place with Mrs. Quinn's fifth graders and their special guests.  In memory of her grandmother, Mrs. Quinn teaches her students how to write a memoir about a special person.  You'll laugh and you'll cry watching the students share their stories with their guests of honor.  Please contact Mrs. Quinn for video of the event in its entirety.  Excellent job fifth grade!

This is One You Don't Want to Miss!!

Mrs. Fritz and Mrs. Bombardier are songwriting geniuses! In a parody of the song, "Shake it Off," students in grades K-5 break up those syllables, prefixes, suffixes, and use morphology to understand words while reading!  Enjoy!!

If subtitles don't appear, please make video full screen! Thanks!

Center School Sightings - Saying Goodbye to 2014

CSS is going out with a bang in 2014!  The fifth graders did an amazing job on this episode, featuring incredible community service projects as well as third grade authors and first grade pizza chefs!

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Our Guest Speaker, Mrs. Bone, with an Important Message

Mrs. Bone came into the fifth grade technology integration class to share her knowledge and passion for recycling.  The students were really into it and asked great questions as well as shared what surprised them most.

A special thank you to Kayley, who came up with the whole idea, and to her Mom for the time, terrific slideshow and wonderful presentation.  We all learned a great deal about recycling!  The students will use what they learned in creating projects to teach others about recycling.

Of course, CSS was there to capture the action!  All CSS episodes can be found on our website. Center School Sightings