Week 4 - Grade 2 Comparing Cultures with Hong Kong #resvt #vted #vsla
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RES Red Clover Results #resvt #resreads #cesuvt #vted #vlsa
RES Red Clover Winning Book: Shh! We Have a Plan by Chris Haughton All school year, RES scholars have been sharing the 10 excellent picture books on the 2015-2016 Red Clover Award reading list. Every year the Vermont Center for the Book puts together a new reading list of 10 fiction and nonfiction picture books for this award, which is named after our state flower. Vermont students in kindergarten through fourth grade read, listen to, discuss, and write about the books on the list. Then each student votes for his or her favorite. RES students voted for Shh! We Have a Plan by Chris Haughton as their favorite Red Clover book this year! Other top vote-getters were Lindbergh: The Tale of a Flying Mouse by Torben Kuhlmann and Elizabeth: Queen of the Seas , written by Lynne Cox and illustrated by Brian Floca (shown above). All the votes from RES will go to the Vermont Department of Libraries. The Department of libraries will add our votes together with votes from ...
Dorothy Canfield Fisher (DCF) Book Award Voting Results at #RESvt! #resreads #vted #vsla
On April 15, RES fourth grade scholars completed their participation in the annual Dorothy Canfield Fisher (DCF) Award reading program. Every year, Vermont scholars in grades four through eight who participate in this program read titles from a list of new books. Each scholar who reads or listens to at least five titles on the list can vote on his or her favorite book. At RES, fourth graders who read at least five books on the current DCF list also receive invitations to a lunchtime pizza party in the RES library. When RES fourth graders voted for their favorite DCF book, the winner was: Under the Egg by Laura Marx Fitzgerald Other top choices were Ice Dogs by Terry Lynn Johnson and The Fourteenth Goldfish by Jennifer L. Holm. We are very proud of all of our fourth grade scholars who took part in the 2014-2015 DCF Book Award reading program! Between them they read and listened to many thousands of pages of fiction and nonfiction, improved their reading skills, a...
Second Grade Comparing Cultures eBooks #resvt
As part of their Comparing Cultures unit, second graders at RES collaborated to write eBooks to compare aspects of culture in China, Mexico, and the United States. The books written by Miss Darling's class and Mrs. Robinson's class are shown as videos below. Mrs. Riggs' class will be finishing their book soon and we will post it then!
Week 3 - Grade 2 Comparing Cultures with Hong Kong #resvt #vted #vsla
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Creating Capstone Presentations in Fourth Grade #resvt #vted #geniushour
Fourth graders are creating presentations to share what they have learned over the course of their Capstone Projects in enrichment library class. Below are a few examples of the presentations-in-progress and the research questions they answer. We are incredibly proud of all of our fourth grade scholars for their thoughtfulness and hard work on these projects! We look forward to sharing them all at Art/Music/Capstone night on May 18. - Darcie Rankin, enrichment teacher and Beth Redford, library media specialist. Mood board and dress How do you design and make a dress? iMovie and student-grown crystals How do crystals form? Google Slides presentation How do service dogs do their jobs? puppet show -- script in progress Who were some of the best known Egyptian gods and what were they known for? comic book Why are there so many different stories of legendary creatures? LEGO model and poster with text How did the Allies win W...
March 2016 at the RES Library, By the Numbers #resvt #vsla #resreads
RES second graders and the students of class 3LT at the Renaissance College School in Hong Kong March 2016 at the RES library, by the numbers Number of library books and other materials checked out by RES scholars, families, and staff: 1761 -- that's 84 per day in our four weeks of school this month Number of times scholars used the PebbleGo nonfiction databases about animals, biographies,and more: 489 Number of TumbleBooks electronic books read and listened to : 145 Number of scholar visits to the library: over 800 (13 classes per week plus additional class visits plus individual visits) Number of scholars served by the librarian during lessons and visits in classrooms: over 300 Number of second graders who have been discussing culture via Twitter with a class in Hong Kong: 46 (all three classes) . It turns out we all love Roald Dahl books!