Stories, Friends and Robots!

Our current focus in Reader's and Writer's Workshop is "Old Favorites"- stories that live in our hearts because they have stood the test of time.  To get us started we fell in love (some of us for the first time and others all-over-again) with Harry the Dirty Dog.  This classic is a model text for understanding the beginning, middle, end story structure.  Below you can see some students using the book to choose the moments they will illustrate to show the story's sequence.

As focused as the children are during work times, most days they are equally focused at Explore time!  Check out the team work knowing that as soon as these designs were created, I was asked to "post them on line"!

In keeping with how tech savvy this crew is, it's worth taking a look on the expressions on the children's faces as they were introduced to the Bee Bots (early programming and coding tool) by Ms. Courcelle.  You can see the intensity with which the children listened, experimented, and then celebrated their success.