Click, Clack, Moo!

I read Click, Clack, Moo! by Denise Cronin (call number E C) to first graders and kindergartners this week. We learned a few vocabulary words, including "furious," "on strike," and "neutral." Don't worry, it's a fun book!

Then the kids found the letters of their name on a printout of a Mac keyboard (thanks to my predecessor Sue Evje for this idea) while we watched two videos. Did you know that Leroy Anderson used a typewriter as an orchestral instrument??

 

 

Some students had fun doing a little bit of air-typing themselves.

 

 

DLP Window Garden

After reading Flower Garden by Eve Bunting, DLP students made their own windowbox flowers. Thanks to volunteer Kristina Paetow for prepping the activity (and coming up with the idea to use the popsicle sticks for stems!).

Summarizing Rumpelstiltskin - Room 7

In fifth grade this week, we practiced the Somebody / Wanted / But / So / Then method of summarizing a story. Here is what the students came up with for Rumplestiltskin (note: the afterword gave an alternate fate for R.; students picked the one they liked better).

• The king wants gold, but if the miller's daughter does no spin gold, then the king will kill her (evil laugh). So she asked Rumpelstiltskin to spin gold so she does not get killed. Then he spins the gold. - TO
  
  
• The king wanted the miller's daughter to spin gold, but she didn't know how to. So a little man came and spun the gold. Then the queen promised when she had a baby she would give it to him. - JL
  
  
• The miller's daughter wanted to finish her jobs, but Rumpelstiltskin wanted something to do the work for her. So he said to her when she was queen, to give him her child. Then she had to figure out his name to keep the baby. - NR
  
  
• The miller's daughter wanted to please the king with making gold, but she could not. So Rumpelstiltskin did it for her. Then the queen had to give R. her baby, but she did not want to. So he said "Guess my name in three days, and I will let you keep the baby." - KP
  
  
• Rumpelstiltskin wanted the queen's baby, but the queen didn't want him to take [it]/ So she made a deal with R. [and] had three days to figure out his name. Then she sent out a spy and got his name, and R. ripped himself in half. - CP
  
  
• Rumpelstiltskin wanted the queen's baby, but if [she] guessed his name, she would get to keep the baby. So the queen guessed his name. Then R. rode his spoon out the window. - SR
  


• The queen wanted to keep her baby, but Rumpelstiltskin wanted to take [it] if she didn't know his name. So the queen's servant spied on R. to find out his name. Then the queen got to keep the baby and R. was never heard of again. - EB
  

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