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Camp Write Along-Day 4

Camp Write Along Day 4 's focus was on writing our rough drafts and conferring. We began our day with watching a short clip from our Camp director, and then we sang our camp songs. Today we learned a new song called "Camp Write Along" to the tune of the YMCA. We also re-sang the ...

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Camp Write Along-Day 3

Camp Write Along Day 3 was focused around Revising.  We began camp with a short video from our camp director, and then we sang our camp songs. We re-sang the "Writing Hokey"and "Write Write Baby", and then we learned a new song "The Twelve Days of Writing Camp." Our first ...

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Camp Write Along -Day 2

The Agenda for Day 2 of Camp Writing Along was as follows: Message from our Camp Director re-sang "The Writing Hokey"  learned a new song "Write Write Baby" ( to the tune of Ice, Ice Baby, which was one of my favorite songs back in the day) Learned how to write titles for ...

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Camp Write Along - Day 1

Welcome to Shepherd's Shining Stars 2nd Annual Camp Write Along! Camp Write Along is a writing camp focused on enhancing writing skills and techniques such as writing strong hooks and endings, creating a title, revising and editing and publishing, as well as singing songs all ...

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Testing Bulletin Boards

LEAP and iLEAP testing is soon approaching! 8 school days to be exact till phase I of testing. One way each grade level is preparing for the test is by creating testing bulletin boards. Check out some of the awesome boards at our school. ...

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World Read Aloud Day

We celebrated world read aloud day today with a Skype call to Ms. Hahn's 4th grade class from Our Lady of Peace school. They began the Skype call with giving us a few facts to locate their state such as: -they are near a lot of lakes - a country borders their state - their state has a 125ft. tower -their is a large supply of iron in their state We then gave them some facts about our state such as -we are located ...

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Celebrating Dr. Seuss's Birthday

To celebrate Dr. Seuss's Birthday, my 4th grade class participated in various activities throughout the week. First, I collected a plethora of Dr. Seuss books from home, our school library, and I even picked up a few on sale at Target for $5 each. Students paired up with a partner ...

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A Math Strategy

Two Saturdays out of the month some of our 3-5th grade students attend Saturday school. These classes are centered around strategies to use in various subjects. This Saturday's focus was on Math strategies. The strategy introduced to students was the CUBE strategy. CUBE is an ...

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