Stories All Around Us

Donna Washington, the multi-talented author, performance artist, and storyteller visited Braeside today! We were spellbound as Donna Washington shared her storytelling magic. Ask your child to retell stories, Epaminondas and Sody-Sallyratus!  

http://www.donnawashington.com/

Click on the link above to visit Donna Washington's website to enjoy more storytelling fun!

Elephant and Worm Theatre Company collaborated with Braeside students to create and perform several original plays!

University of Chicago Research Study

For those of you that elected to participate in the University of Chicago research study, today was Session #1 with your child. Within the next few weeks, Session #2 will occur and then the Bedtime Learning Together application and iPad Mini will be distributed to your family. We will keep you posted!

Author Sally Walker

Preparing for our author visit.

Ms. Parker introduces us to Sally Walker and her books.

And today, Sally Walker visits Braeside!

Reading with Raz-Kids, The Honeybee , and Counting On with Cards

Raz-Kids

Your child was introduced to Raz-Kids this week. Raz-Kids is an interactive website that allows your child access to a wide range of e-books. Each student, within their own account, can read books, listen to books, record themselves reading, take comprehension quizzes, and earn stars toward building Raz Rockets. To access Raz-Kids, click on the icon above, access through our classroom blog, 

http://mrsrossman.blogspot.com, or log in at www.raz-kids.com/login/cnrossman. Enter cnrossman for the teacher name, select student icon, and enter your child's password that was sent home. Happy reading!

The Honeybee

Did you and your child read The Honeybee that came home Friday? We created this non-fiction book after researching specific questions we had about honeybees, assimilating this information into "make sense" text, and illustrating to provide even more details. Your child has been a busy researcher, author, and illustrator! 

Counting on Stategy with Cards

As we explore addition concepts, cards are a great resource to practice the counting on strategy.

Walk To School Day!

What a beautiful day for walking to school!

And for all school Zumba!

 

The Klise Sisters Visit Braeside

Thinking in New and Different Ways

Ms. Ozawa encouraged us to think in new and different ways as we helped Isabel the Inventor think of a way to get Sybil the Scientist across Crystal Woods Pond without getting wet. Ask your child how he/she looked at these items in new and different ways to invent something that could get Sybil safely across the pond.

Honeybees at Heller Nature Center

Learning with Ms. Leah

What does a honeybee see with those compound eyes?

Ready for the apiary!

 

Ms. Katie pulls out a honey frame for us to see!

Math Practice -- Computers and Dice

Today in the computer lab we reviewed how to access the math IXL website. In your child's home folder was his/her username and password for IXL practice. Your child knows how to go to IXL via our Braeside website: Staff Directory, Cindy Rossman to our blog, First Grade Links, Math Links, and then IXL Math. You also can go straight to our blog at http://mrsrossman.blogspot.com/

Enjoy!

Decade Dice and 10 Sided Dice

We also explored rolling our decade and ten sided dice to place numbers in our nearly empty 120s chart! Ask your child what number(s) on the 120s chart could never be rolled. Why? What was the one number we could roll that didn't have a place on the 120s chart?