Tiger Trot

Today, we ran laps in the Tiger Trot to raise money for our school playground. It was a lovely day to be outdoors! Some people ran and some walked.








This was Aynsley's cheering squad. They had a little cheer!



After the Tiger Trot, we tallied our number of laps. Claudia and Pat found the median number of laps that we ran. We also found other landmark data based on our Tiger Trot laps. Don't we love math???

Everyone had a positive attitude about the Tiger Trot, and we hope that our efforts raised some serious cash for the Winthrop playground!

Thanks to Mrs. Corcoran for organizing such a great event. It was a blast!

Marsh Trip - May 18th

Bright Happy Power!

This week is Bright Happy Power week and each class is completing a project to help the community in some way. We walked to Bialek Park today and cleaned up the playgrounds there. Each of us collected lots of trash! It felt rewarding to contribute to our community by cleaning up a place where lots of kids and families play.

Wavepaint and Zumi's

We walked to the Wavepaint Gallery. Our class got a little tour of the gallery from Mrs. DiLorenzo. They had children's book illustrations on exhibit. We noticed that some of the rough draft paintings were different than the ones in the books. For some paintings on exhibit, we could see the picture from the book right underneath it. We went there because it is Authors Week.











After the Wavepaint, we went to Zumi's as a treat. We each got delicious ice cream (or sorbet). After we got our ice cream, we went outside and sat on the deck and ate our treats. It was a little chilly and windy out there. When we were done, we took the long way home by walking on the Riverwalk. We heeded (paid attention to) the river. It was an awesome way to celebrate Authors Week!

This is Aidan after eating his ice cream. Can you guess what flavor he had?


This is Drew, Sean, Sam and Clayton. Clayton was a little chilly.


These guys are at the kiddie table.

Yummy!

Discussing the splendors of lemon sorbet...

Author Visits

This week is Author's Week. On Monday, we had author and illustrator Grace Lin join us and share about her many books. She was such an enthusiastic and energetic speaker. We learned how she used real stories from her life to create her books. She keeps an IDEA journal with her at all times. She showed us how to draw a tiger for the Year of the Tiger.

Wednesday brought us a visit from author Julie Hahnke (pictured above). She's written three books and published two of them. We loved hearing about all of the extensive research she does before writing a book, as well as how she planned out all of the series books before she even wrote one of them. Julie shared how she learned about Scottish clans and their land and battles, her research about animals like a pine marten and luna moth, and she even played the bagpipes for us, and showed us her ENORMOUS sword...don't worry, it was a replica. Julie Hahnke was another inspiring speaker.



Thursday, we had another assembly with storyteller Valerie Tutson. She was amazing. She taught us songs and words from Africa and completely mesmerized us with her stories about Zora Neale Hurston and a boy who could communicate with rainforest beings. It was interesting to think about how stories were shared as entertainment and history before they were ever written down. Who doesn't love a good story?