Thanks for Cummings
“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose." ~Dr. Seuss
Wednesday, August 23, 2023
Welcome Back!
Thursday, December 1, 2022
* Secret Snowflake *
A card wishing your classmate well, to show you care.
Thursday Dec. 22nd - A Decorated Poem
Could be an acrostic of the recipients’ name or any poem about the recipient!
I will provide special winter themed paper if needed.
Friday Dec. 23rd - Handmade Gift
This gift is made from the heart!
You will have from (Dec. 12th ) to work on this gift.
I look forward to seeing the creative and thoughtful gifts made for your classmates!!
Tuesday, November 22, 2022
Balloons Over Broadway
Tuesday, November 8, 2022
New Lit Circle Books
Our current Read Aloud |
New Lit Circle Books |
Posted: In middle school, words aren’t just words. They can be weapons. They can be gifts. The right words can win you friends or make you enemies. They can come back to haunt you. Sometimes they can change things forever.
When cell phones are banned at Branton Middle School, Frost and his friends Deedee, Wolf, and Bench come up with a new way to communicate: leaving sticky notes for each other all around the school. It catches on, and soon all the kids in school are leaving notes—though for every kind and friendly one, there is a cutting and cruel one as well.
The Revealers: Parkland Middle School is a place the students call Darkland, because no one in it does much to stop the daily harassment of kids by other kids.
Three bullied seventh graders use their smarts to get the better of their tormentors by starting an unofficial e-mail forum at school in which they publicize their experiences. Unexpectedly, lots of other kids come forward to confess their similar troubles, and it becomes clear that the problem at their school is bigger than anyone knew.
The school principal wants to clamp down on the operation, which she does when the trio, in their zealousness for revenge, libel a fellow student in what turns out to have been a setup. Now a new plan of attack is needed . . .
Loser: Just like other kids, Zinkoff rides his bike, hopes for snow days, and wants to be like his dad when he grows up. But Zinkoff also raises his hand with all the wrong answers, trips over his own feet, and falls down with laughter over a word like "Jabip."
Other kids have their own word to describe him, but Zinkoff is too busy to hear it. He doesn't know he's not like everyone else. And one winter night, Zinkoff's differences show that any name can someday become "hero."
Flying Solo: When the substitute for Mr. "Fab" Fabiano never shows up and his sixth-grade students are on their own, they set out to prove that they can run the class by themselves. With a little ingenuity and some careful planning, they might just succeed.
But when a fight breaks out between Bastian Fauvell and Rachel White over a classmate, Tommy Feathers, who died six months earlier, everything begins to fall apart. Can Rachel deal with the anxieties that plunged her into silence the day Tommy died? Inventive and uniquely constructed, "Flying Solo" follows Mr. Fab's students hour by hour as they tackle the challenges of an unusual school day.
Because of Mr.Terupt: It’s the start of a new year at Snow Hill School, and seven students find themselves thrown together in Mr. Terupt’s fifth grade class. They don’t have much in common, and they’ve never gotten along. Not until a certain new teacher arrives and helps them to find strength inside themselves—and in each other.