St. Joe's English Curriculum
   
7th graders concluded a unit on descriptive writing by completing a poetry project. Here, a few students showcase their work.
Seventh grade students started the year off learning about different types of personal writing. Here, the students worked in pairs to create invitations to different events and holidays.

 First Grade wishes Dr. Seuss a Happy Birthday!

Stories really take a long time to write. In First Grade, we write and check and write again! At last - a story!

Second graders are working on a project with a class from Australia called Monster Exchange! Each class draws a monster, then we write a detailed description of what our monster looks like. We send only the description to our Australian partner, so they can recreate our monster. Finally, we will compare our drawings online. This project helps us understand how important descriptive words can be.

Stay tuned - as we finalize this project, we will be sharing the web address with you so you can see how we did!

We're published! Second graders worked on a class book themed around how we would donate $100. We drew, scanned, and then uploaded our pictures to an online publishing site. Then we keyboarded our stories online! Our book is called Big Money and we now have the hardcopy published version in our classroom to share!

On October 8, 2009 children across the globe read Eric Carle's The Very Hungry Caterpillar, breaking a world record for the largest shared reading experience ever. Our own Grade 3 joined in!

Third graders completed book reports on famous people - we made both puppets of our person and recorded a movie to share our reports with you!

Fourth graders created paper bag book reports to share books we read during September. 
In English, 6th graders are working on how-to's! We made flow chart puzzles to explain how to make something. Our classmates had to put them in order to make sure we didn't miss any steps!
In Literature, 8th graders read "The Tell Tale Heart" and completed a police report and interrogation for the crime the main character committed.