Wait! I have an idea. Did you know that Earle Dickson, who lived close by in New Brunswick, invented the Band-Aid? You can read about it in "The Boo-Boos That Changed the World", or listen to it at http://tiny.cc/l4ae001.
Queen to Bishop 6. Check! Every Wednesday, our PTO sponsors an after-school chess hour. Alumni are on hand to teach everyone how to play and how to play better. Every grade level is represented. We use our brains and learn good sportsmanship.
The Third Grade Women’s Tea is the culmination of weeks and weeks of research about a famous woman. Each youngster shares their research, bound in a booklet, with one special guest. They make a unique doll and a timeline of their famous woman's life. These are displayed outside the auditorium for everyone to see and admire. Guests are served a cup of tea by their hosts while everyone enjoys a round of trivia.
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Just relaxing while I read one of my favorite books.
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We had a great Community Service Night! We are learning how to think AND how to be kind.
Goodbye, Judy Moody. We loved reading about your adventures these past two weeks.
We learned about the T.P. club, how new friendships are formed, and that parents make mistakes. We played Kahoot and answered trivia questions from each night's reading. We fed a Venus fly trap and lined our halls with All About Me posters. We read the first and last chapters together in the auditorium and watched video recordings that the teachers made for each chapter. And we got our own copy of Judy Moody. I wonder what book we will read together next year.
The next time you walk past the Rialto, take a look at the art in the windows. It's artwork from Washington students!
We are getting ready for our spring concerts. Everybody loves 7:30 AM rehearsals!
The Roosevelt Eighth Grade Band came to teach us about instruments and play great songs. And we got to see old friends!
Knight to Queen Four. Check!
We love head custodian Mario Saravia! Every day, he finds a way to make our school a better place. On a scale of 1-10, Mario weighs in at 100 pounds.
We learned how to tie our shoes. Doesn't everyone remember that moment in our lives? Who needs Velcro?
Mrs. Larosa helped our third graders learn the importance of working together to achieve a common goal by participating in a cup-stacking challenge. They had to work in groups to build a tower using only pipe cleaners and rubber bands—no hands allowed!
Superior Court Judge Rosalba Comas read to our fourth graders as part of Read Across America week. Judge Comas patiently answered all of our questions about being a judge and even told us about her favorite cases (like Taquito the Dog)!
Author David Biedrzycki spent a great day with us last week. We learned a lot about where to find inspiration for new ideas. We even got to eat lunch with him!
Our fourth graders took the new Westfield School Bus to Roosevelt Intermediate School for a. tour of The African American History in Westfield Museum. We were fortunate to have the MLK Association of Westfield president, Liz Wolf, as our docent. The tour included new video segments highlighting some of this history (available on YouTube channel MLK Westfield).
Poet in Residence Luray Gross spent three days with our third graders this week. Each day, students shared some of the poems they had written. One way was reading loud and proud!
I found these rocks on the playground and discovered that they contain iron, making them magnetic!
