Our Week

We finish reading "Phantom Tollbooth tomorrow. The quiz for the final chapters will be Thursday. We also have the final eleven vocabulary/spelling words quiz on Thursday as well.

The Math Unit 8 assessment is Wednesday. The students prepared study guide today that they will answer tonight. We will review this tomorrow.

We practiced the words and some of the most challenging math concepts today using the dry erase boards.

We will also be finishing the final reports on the foods of Colonial America project.

Above is a photo from last week's open house to show off our technology projects. Most of them are available online. Ask your child about it.

Reading Week: Friday Oldie Goldie Book Sale

Thousands of books were gathered, donated, sorted, displayed and sold or given away today. So many volunteers and families make this event so successful each year.

Reading Week: Thursday

We listened to author and Shorecrest second grade teacher Danielle Cameron talk about her writing. She's the author of "Sister Love" an illustrated memoir about her relationship with her sister who is 13 years younger.

This Blog Viewed Globally

Check out the Clustr Map below right to see that for the first time we have been viewed on all of the inhabited continents.

Reading Week: Wednesday

We all "dropped everything" this morning and read for nearly an our outdoors. Students spread out on towels from home and despite a stiff breeze were totally engrossed in their books. What's the sound of hundreds of people reading?


Later this morning we gathered to listen to St Pete Times business reporter Kathryn Smith talk about her job. Kids asked great questions.

1000 Year Old Canoe Recovered

Pinellas County and maybe Florida history was made as a 40 foot long dugout canoe was recovered from a tidal area of Wheedon Island Preserve. You can learn all about this here.

Reading Week: Tuesday

Something we've started to do weekly is share what we're all reading. We say a little about the book and how we came to be reading it. Tuesday's are extended independent reading time....usually all of the first half hour. Then we share as Saif G. is doing in the photo.



At snack time I usually read to the class as they gather in front of me on the rug. In keeping with our Reading Week theme, I read a graphic novel shown above about the true story of saving many of the books in the Central Basra (Iraq) Library from the recent Iraq war.