What a Character!

For one assignment, students could choose a character, a setting, or a genre to describe in words or pictures. Here are some of the characters they sent in ... if you know who they are, add a comment!

Telling Fibs

Fibonacci, a mathematician who lived during the 1200s, developed a number sequence named after him. Each number is added to the previous number to get the next number: 0 1 1 2 3 5 8 13 21 and so on.

Author Greg Pincus invented the “Fib” form of poetry, in which each consecutive line has the same number of syllables that appear in the Fibonacci sequence. During Poetry Week, students could choose to write a Fib. Here are some of their creations:

Jump!

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Left

and right!

Get the ball!

Being a goalie

is so very fun! Block it! Yay! 

- P.S., Rm 115


Please,
Mom,
Why not?
Oh, forgot
you do not like dogs ...
then maybe we can get a frog.
- L.J., Rm 116


I
love
sleeping
because my
bed is so cozy
that I fall asleep so quickly.
- C.L., Rm 116

Down!

Set!

Hike ball!

The ball is snapped up.

Give it to the running back now.

Boom, pow, trucking left and right, me taking hits all night.

I hear them cheering in the stands, "Run Bubba," "Go boy Go," "Get 'em get 'em, all the way!"

- J.S., Rm 117

Jump,

slide,

spin, catch,

dance - Woo hoo!

Baseball is so great.

That is why I appreciate.

- K.J., Rm 117

I

love

to sleep

and also

do some crafts for fun

and also be creative too.

- L.R., Rm 117

I

Love

To dance

With music

Dancing’s really fun

Twirl, twist, and turn - dance to the beat

Leap and kick with your feet, sing along to the cool beat.

- E.S., Rm 118

I

love

to read

and eat food,

play games with my friends,

and hang out with my family. 

- M.S., Rm 119

Bark!
Grrrr!
Lucy...
She's bitey.
She's also lovey.
My dog Lucy is amazing.
- J.C., Rm 120

What Does That Mean?

One option for the Reading Around the House assignment was to find a new word and share its definition. Below is the list of some of the words that kids found ... do you know them all?

If you would like to learn even more words, check out freerice.com or vocabulary.com.

• abdicate

  

  image from thegreatcoursesplus.com

• barber 
• blend
• brainstorm
• compatible
• conundrum
• dynamic
• emigrate
• escalator
• geology
• gobbled
• hyperthermia
• inconspicuous
• infuriating
• interior 
• investigate
• journey 
• jury
• malignant
• naive
• nibbled
• Paleozoic
• recently 
• righteous
• savory
• segregation
• turmeric 

Celebrating the April Reading Challenge - 2

Governor Raimondo challenged every student in Rhode Island to read every single day during the month of April. Garden City students rose to the challenge, sending in "shelfies" and building book forts and reading nooks as their library assignments.

What the Kids are Reading

While we've been distance learning (and reading), I've been asking the kids to share the titles of books they've enjoyed. If you're not sure what to read next, why not check out some of the suggestions below. I've included book cover images from Goodreads for some of my favorites on the list.

Kindergarten

The Watermelon Seed
Clark the Shark
Other Goose
Meet Biscuit
What Makes a Rainbow
Pinkalicious
Amelia Bedelia
The Emperor's New Clothes
"Bamboozzled" by David Legge
Harry Potter series
Ada Twist, Scientist
Bringing Down the Moon
The Gingerbread Boy
Mike Helps Out
I am a Bunny
The Babies on the Bus
Where Do Diggers Sleep at Night?

Grade 1

Llama Llama Holiday Drama
Ada Lace, Take Me to Your Leader
A Bad Case of Stripes
Owl Diaries series (x 2)
A Tale of Two Beasts
Birds
The Witches
Arthur's April Fool
Peppa’s First Sleepover
Dog Man (x 3)
There Was an Old Astronaut Who Swallowed the Moon
Dragon Masters series
Arnie the Doughnut
Biscuit series
Green Eggs and Ham
Enemy Pie
Otto series
I Am Albert Einstein
Pete the Cat and the Missing Cupcakes
Jojo Siwa: My Life Story
My Mom Loves Me
Peter Rabbit
Corduroy
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
Hungry Hungry Sharks
Boxcar Children series
We Are in a Book (Elephant & Piggie)
Berenstain Bears series
There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed Some Books
Little Lucy Goes to School
Leap Year Birthday
David books by David Shannon
Black Lagoon series
Wiggly Worms
Ivy & Bean series

Grade 2

Sharks: Get Up Close to Nature's Fiercest Predators
A Fairy Went A-Marketing
Mooseltoe
Harry Potter series
Unicorn Diaries
The Investigators
Rosie Revere, Engineer
What Do You Do with an Idea?
Clara the Cookie Fairy
Frank Einstein series
Pigeon books by Mo Willems (x 3)
Charlotte's Web (x 2)
A Wrinkle in Time
Down the Rabbit Hole / Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
Changes for Kit (American girl)
The Adventures of Sophie the Mouse: A New Friend
Little Popcorn
Narwhal series by Ben Clanton
The BFG
Icarus Was Ridiculous
Popular MMOs series
Once Upon a Baby Brother
Mean Jean
Birds
Mother Bruce
Grandma’s Boy
The House that Jane Built
Little Rhino
Heidi Heckelbeck and the Magic Puppy
Book of Aliens by Bruce Coville
Max’s Story
Giraffes Can’t Dance
Dwarf Planets
Pugs in a Blanket
Duck! Rabbit!
Lost! A Dog Called Bear
Narwhal series by Ben Clanton
Dog Man series (x 2)
“Say What?”! by Ben Grossblatt
Lego City
Fizz
Diary of a Wimpy Kid series

Grade 3

The Mouse and the Motorcycle
Wedgie and Gizmo
Wayside School series
Space
Crime Biters
George Flies South
Minecraft "Into the Game"
The Dragon Prophecy
Percy Jackson series
The Giving Tree
Oceans
Dog Man series
Magic Mirror
Charlie Bumpers v. the Teacher of the Year
Third Grade Angels
Ollie's Odyssey
The Trials of Apollo
The Titanic
Robots
The Bruce Series by Ryan T. Higgins
Follow Your Art
The Birchbark House
Unicorn Princess series
The Disastrous Magical Wishes of Classroom 13
The Bad Guys series
The Unicorn Diaries
The Chocolate Touch
Charlie Joe Jackson series
I Am Pusheen the Cat
Geronimo Stilton series
Camp Sunny Side Friends
Captain Underpants series
Wings of Fire series
My Weird School series
Popular MMOs series
James and the Giant Peach
Drama
Star Wars: Clone Wars books
Unicorn Rescue Society

Grade 4

Ants in My Bed
Scratching a Good Story
Green Eggs and Ham
The Last Kids on Earth series
Hello Neighbor series
Carmela Full of Wishes
The Croods
Anything by Erin Hunter (Bravelands, Seekers, Survivors, Warriors)
Silent But Deadly
Sharks and Other Deadly Ocean Creatures
The Lost Hero
Epoca: The Tree of Ecrof
Kid Power
Divergent
James and the Giant Peach
The Fabulous Five: Seventh Grade Rumors
Sunny Rolls the Dice
The New Kid by Mavis Jukes
Black Beauty
Who was Marie Curie?
Diary of a Friendly Awesome Kid
How to Steal a Dog
Harry Potter series
Diary of a Wimpy Kid series
Magnus Chase series
Dirt
Goosebumps series
Stink series
The Chronicles of Narnia

Grade 5

Ugly
Sign of the Beaver
Harry Potter series
Dog Gone
Max Crumbly series
Secret Coders series
Greetings from Witness Protection
My Weird School series
The Fire Keeper
Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard
Nuts to You
Hoot
Who Stole the Wizard of Oz?
Five Nights at Freddy's series
Keeper of the Lost Cities
A Boy No More
Cleopatra in Space series
Drama
Wish
Unwanteds series
I Want to Ride
Max Einstein series
Big Nate series
Rules
Echo
Falling over Sideways
Sprinkles and Secrets
Frosting and Friendship
It's Raining cupcakes
The Strange Museum series.
Super Potato series
Calvin & Hobbes
Dog Man series
Mysterious Benedict Society series
Toby’s Story
The Book Thief

Celebrating the April Reading Challenge - 1

Governor Raimondo challenged every student in Rhode Island to read every single day during the month of April. Garden City students rose to the challenge, sending in "shelfies" and building book forts and reading nooks as their library assignments.