St. Joe's English Curriculum
   

 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 practiced writing "How to..." essays by describing how to create a snowman. We found that we had many expert snowman makers!

After reading about the life of baseball player, Lou Gehrig, fourth graders organized the dates of his life into an accordion character timeline.

Fourth graders read a nonfiction book and then created game boards to show what we learned from each book. We each chose a partner and played each other's games so we could learn about what everyone else was reading.

To distinguish the difference between plural nouns and plural possessive nouns, fourth graders separate nouns into their appropriate "vortex".

Sixth graders are creating comic strips to show the main events in their Literature story "The All American Slurp". 

Seventh graders made posters to help them visualize how to diagram sentences.

Seventh graders studied character traits during their literature unit. Each student made their own character trait t-shirt to communicate to others what their traits are - without even talking!