Arthur Meets the President

While the Kindergarten teacher was making her way to Washington, we talked about what Inauguration Day was about. I read the Kindergarteners Arthur Meets the President. Arthur wins an essay contest in the book by writing about how he believes people can make America great by helping each other – although he is extremely nervous about delivering his essay as a speech to the President himself.

I assigned a Google Slide to each of the Fourth Graders so that they could respond to the prompt, “What I Want the President to Know.” I showed them how to search for images and the children were very thoughtful as they typed their thoughts on the slides. We will finish up the presentation on Friday. I brought the draft of the slide show up to show their Eighth Grade buddies, who were suitably impressed with the Fourth Graders’ work!

In Tech….

Typing….

And. 8th Grade yearbook session….

Getting the Yearbook Underway

The Eighth Graders met today to talk about the yearbook. It will take months to produce, so we are trying to get a timely start. Namita spoke to the children about thinking a bit out of the box to create a book that reflects the Coop spirit. Kate, a parent with yearbook experience, was on hand to help guide the conversation. I provided old yearbooks as jumping off points and even brought in my own middle school yearbook to share!