MAP Prep Week

Brainpower defeats Anxiety Girl!!

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I had a blast serving on the MAP Prep Planning Committee!

My Philosophy of Education

After teaching a series of lessons on poetry in 4C, I felt inspired to revisit a piece I began in college:

Test-Taking Strategies

PLC's, LLC's, BASK, PM, so on and so forth, it's clear OB loves acronyms. I've just begun a new unit with a couple second grade pals using DQTPA for non-fiction texts, which stands for directions, questions, text, prove, and answer. To remember these strategies, they say "Dairy Queen tastes pretty awesome!"

Paws for Pets

Marshall the Miracle Dog came to visit today. His remarkable story written by local author Cyndi Willenbrock embeds many positive messages.

Character Ed. jumped at the opportunity to sponsor a donation drive for the Humane Society.
"Help us help them."
=)

3rd Grade Authors

The Art of the Eight-Layered PBJ
I've been working with a group of third graders to get a head start on an upcoming biography unit. After a couple weeks of exploring text features and taking notes, we've moved into the writing phase. In third grade, they refer to a "peanut butter and jelly" framework for well-structured paragraphs. 

The students had a blast assembling pre-written sentences into a paragraph on Rosa's early adulthood.

Ingredients: 

• bread (topic and concluding sentences)
• peanut butter (main ideas)
• jelly (details)

Symmetry in Our World

This first grade trio will use their new knowledge of symmetry for the follow-up fiction piece, Frances the Fairy Dressmaker.

Socks & Sandwiches

Service Learning Project

Every year the OB community collects socks and gathers edible items for those in need. Then on the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday, families volunteer their time to prepare the sandwiches at school. The generous donations go to various organizations throughout the area. It's a great effort of time and treasure sponsored by the Diversity Committee.

3438 sandwiches, 1062 socks

I proudly delivered 100 pairs of socks to the Jewish Food Pantry, where the folks expressed much appreciation upon receipt.