Archive for January, 2009

Safe Surfing

January 29th, 2009

We had a wonderful presentation today about how kids can stay safe while exploring the Internet. The presenter, Kevein Honeycutt, had a really cute little dog with him who the children just loved. Mr. Honeycutt had some really good stories and advise for them. He even sang an original song about Internet safety while accompanying [...]

4B Kids are Singing About “Toons”

January 23rd, 2009

As a culminating activity at the end of this week’s reading selection, A Peddler’s Dream, fourth graders got to make comic strips of the story on the Internet. They used a simple but powerful tool called Make Beliefs Comix to demonstrate their understanding of plot and to retell the story. Both are very important reading [...]