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K-2
Accidental Snacks - Nonfiction Book
We all love a snack from time to time. But did you know that many of the snacks that we enjoy today were created by accident. On this website, you can read or listen to the story, your choice! Happy Reading
Room Recess: Accidental Snacks
Erica Doesn’t Help - Fiction Book
Erica and her two friends set up a lemonade stand. When Erica chooses not to help out, her friends decide she does not deserve to go to the water park with them. On this website, you can read or listen to the story, your choice! Happy reading!
A Bad Case of Stripes - Fiction Book
Sean Austin Reads, A Bad Case of Stripes by David Shannon. In this story, Camilla Cream loves lima beans, but she never eats them. Why? Because the other kids at her school don't like them. And Camilla Cream is very, very worried about what other people think of her. In fact she is so worried that she's about to break out in... A Bad Case of Stripes. Click on the link for this e-book Audio Book!
3-5
Storyline Online: If I Ran For President – Fiction Book
Lonnie Chavis, Parker Bates and Mackenzie Hancsicsak read If I Ran For President by Catherine Stier. Read this informative book to find out what you would really do if you were to run for President.
Storyline Online: If I Ran For President
Anne of Green Gables – Fiction Book
Elephant poaching is a tough issue to solve. Conservationist and 2016 National Geographic Emerging Explorer Gao Yufang is approaching the problem from a different angle: encouraging cross-cultural communication, bringing Chinese and Africans together to try to understand each other’s viewpoints regarding the elephant ivory trade.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. – Nonfiction Book
Dr. King led a civil rights movement in the first half of the 20th century. He was well respected for his peaceful methods of protest. On this website, you can read or listen to the story, your choice! Happy reading!
K-2
Cinquain Poems - Website
Writing poetry can be a lot of fun! Follow the pattern of Cinquain Poetry and you can make your own poem, just like the students at Pocantico Hills School. They wrote about bears, but you can choose any topic you like!
Make-A-Character - Creativity Training
Imagine that you are a cartoonist who is creating a character for a comic strip. This activity gives you drawings of different parts of faces for you to put together an original character. Then, you can develop your imagination and writing skills by writing a brief story about the character.
New Directions in Creativity Mark 3, Make-A-Character
2 Bee or Not 2 Bee - Online Activities
What's the buzz all about? Help the bees make their honey! Find flowers for them by choosing the correct verb tense that completes the sentence.
3-5
Truth and Fiction: A Memory Exercise – Creativity Training
What does it mean to write a memoir? How do you know where to draw the line between truth and fiction? Try this memory exercise to enhance your memoir writing!
Truth and Fiction: A Memory Exercise
Cartiin Captions – Creativity Training
Be creative and use your sense of humor to write captions for each cartoon picture. Have fun with this one!
New Directions In Creativity Mark 1, Cartoon Captions
DIY Poems – Online Activities
D.I.Y stands for do it yourself. Finish writing this poem by yourself. See if your poem is like Phyllis Shand Allfrey's poem.
Grades K-2 Activities
Cool Characters:
In this project, you will learn about characters in stories. You will discover that a character can be a person, animal, or other creature. You will keep notes in a journal as you learn to pick out the characters in stories and to describe them with adjectives. Your final product will challenge you to choose two characters from the same story and write down five adjectives to describe each one. Then you can draw your characters, and add a background to show where they are and what they are doing, or you can turn them into puppets. If you choose to draw your characters, you will have the option of submitting your work for publication in a magazine.
An Animal’s Habitat:
Learn how important an appropriate habitat is to the survival of any animal. You will choose and read about a specific animal. You will need to find out where it lives, what it eats, whether it is endangered, and all about its habitat. Then create a diorama of its habitat, or use your artistic ability to draw or paint your animal in its environment, to show others how your animal lives.
Grades 3-5 Activities
An Animal’s Habitat:
Learn how important an appropriate habitat is to the survival of any animal. You will choose and read about a specific animal. You will need to find out where it lives, what it eats, whether it is endangered, and all about its habitat. Then create a diorama of its habitat, or use your artistic ability to draw or paint your animal in its environment, to show others how your animal lives.
Create Colonial America:
By completing this project you will discover what it was like to live in the colonies during the period from pilgrim days to the Revolutionary War. Through research, you will learn about the challenging and exciting events experienced by colonial kids. You can choose to use your imagination to write a diary as if you were a young person living in the 1600s or 1700s; or you can use your hands to build a diorama showing what a home, schoolhouse, or town might have looked like during these times.
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