Wednesday, March 16, 2011

New Strega Nona Book Covers

Kindergarteners learned about the author Tomie de Paola and how his heritage influences his stories. Then, we read Strega Nona, a famous Italian story by Tomie de Paola. We also reviewed the different parts of a book and created our own book covers by using Kerpoof.


Look at all that pasta coming out of the house! Run Big Anthony!!!



Character Traits - First Grade

First graders learned how to identify character traits in a story. Then, they wrote down character traits to describe themselves. Finally, they used a website called Kerpoof to write a complete sentence using one of their character traits.




Sunday, March 13, 2011

DJ Encanti Skypes with the East Somerville School

Dj/Electronic sound artist Encanti Skypes with the East Somerville School right before leaving for a three month tour with his audio/visual act Z.E.E (Zebbler Encanti Experience) and headliner EOTO.

Katie's LED Bubble Hat


Tuesday, March 8, 2011





In honor of Dr. Seuss's birthday the 2nd grade read " Green Eggs and Ham" afterwards they were asked to think of something that they thought they didn't like, and then tried it and ended up liking it. We then went to artpad.art.com to use word processing and paint tools to design a page about our discussion.