Cummer Museum Field Trip

We had a great time at the Riverside Park and Cummer Museum for our first field trip this year! 

The Riverside Park was beautiful! It has a great playground, lots of space, a beautiful pond and plenty of spots to have lunch.

At the Cummer, they had awesome interactive activities and even an art project for us to make.

Touring the Art Museum was beautiful. 

The beautiful weather made exploring the gardens very enjoyable. 

FYI: EVERY Tuesday from 4-6pm and every 1st Saturday of the month the Cummer Museum has FREE admission! 

Don't forget to ask your child about our awesome field trip! 

Have a wonderful long weekend! 

-S/T

Literary Parade & Fall Celebration

When you start the day dressed as your favorite book character, you know it's going to be a great day! 

We had so much fun munching on our monster snack, listening to read alouds, working on crafts and doing some candy sorting math.

A very special ~Thank You!~ to Mrs. KK and all the friends in the Media center, who helped find costumes for every kindergatener and 1st grades who didn't have something to wear for our parade.

Thank you, Mrs. O'leary and Mrs. Permuy's 3rd grade class for including us in your writing celebration. We had a great time listening to all of the stories your children wrote. 

We hope everyone who made it out to the Fall Carnival had a great time! 

-S/T

Egg-citing Science

Did you know CCE has Chickens? The 5th grade science classes invited us over to check out the chicken coops, hens, eggs and 3 week old chicks. 

Ask you child what they learned about the hens ear color and how it connects to the eggs they lay. 

Literary Pumpkin Week

This week at CCE is Literary Pumpkin Week! 

Every classroom has created a literary pumpkin masterpiece! We have turned pumpkins into some of our favorite book characters. 

This year our 1st grade class voted on the book: Skeleton Cat

Make sure you check out the school lobby to see all of the awesome literary pumpkins! 

Great Job CCE!

-S/T

Sketch Note Taking

Have you ever tried to take notes and felt like you missed something or didn't write something down? Try Sketch Note Taking! 

Notes are to capture important ideas for future reference. So, what do you do when you don't know how to spell the words you want to write and you miss something really important because you're behind a couple parts? Try Sketch Notes! 

Our class tried to take some notes on the story The Curious Garden. As Mrs. Sihabouth read the book aloud to the class (hiding the pictures) students drew what they saw in their heads onto their paper. After we took notes, we read the book again showing the students the pictures that the illustrator drew. It was really cool to see the connection between the story images and the student drawings. 

Students partnered up to retell the story using their sketch notes.

Here are a couple examples of their sketch notes:

For some students, we found this to be a challenging activity but at a good challenge. It kept everyone engaged and focused. It also had students really thinking and creating their own mind movie of the book they were being read. 

Some of Our Favorite Parts of the Curious Garden

Gabriel: It was the guy watering the garden.

Jolie: The part when everyone helped the garden.

Morgan: All the kids were helping him make the garden.

Robbie: When the garden grew on all the houses.

Karan: The cover.

Ava: When he was a little boy and he started planting the garden.

Jude: When he found the garden.

Anthony: When he grew the garden.

Nolan: When he grew up to be a real gardener.

Ekantika: When the city was covered with the garden.

Cameron: When the garden grew bigger and bigger.

Loren: When the plants ended up in all sorts of places.

Monroe: When it started small and turned in to a giant garden.

Carter: When the town covered in gas and it changed to green.

Emma: It was pretty.

Jordan: When I drew the rail way.

Amarion: When he grew the big tree. 

Isabel: When he first saw the garden.

Airabella: When the boy grew bigger and the garden grew bigger.

Elsid: When he was watering the small tree and it turned into a really big tree.

Tania: When the city grew into the garden.

Shyloah: When he went up the stairs and found the little garden. 

Evelyn: I liked when the flowers were pretty.

Luke: The front page. 

Hayden: The flowers bloomed. 

Citalli: When the flowers grew big.

Austin: When saw the garden. 

We loved this activity and are looking forward to doing it more with the class throughout the year.

-S/T