Our Earth

Arbor Day Celebrate

Do you celebrate Arbor Day?

http://www.arborday.org/arborday/graphics/proclamation.pdf

 A World Without Trees 

Grant Decision 2009

http://www.commoncents.org/index.cfm?objectid=4A29F493-3048-32DA-1849D69F5EE1F1CF

Last year we voted to give our grant money to the following organizations.

Today  we started the PHASE II process again.  Our Team Donation Nation met for our very first Roundtable Meeting.  Stay tuned ….

Last year’s recipients were:

Staten Island Council for Animal Welfare

http://members.petfinder.com/~NY34/sicawindex.htm

Where To Turn.ORG

http://www.where-to-turn.org/phpBB2/links.php?t=sub_pages&cat=26&mode=link_title&order=ASC&start=7&sid=573c9f223809d2bd04520c81ec4393ac

Hoppity Hop Hop

 

Kids Konnect – Index

Your Poetry Center

Poetry Echoes  <~~~~~~~~New York City District 75 Slams Online

http://poetryvlog.com/

Poet: Shel Silverstein – All poems of Shel Silverstein

Poetry Writing with Jack Perlutsky

http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/diamante/

http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/acrostic/

http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=309

http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/stapleless/index.html

The Circus is in Town!!!

Firefighters Day April 1st

http://www.first-school.ws/theme/community-helpers-careers/firefighter-fireman.htm

Poetry Month

Great site to explore…. You can write your poetry right on the site and then print!

http://www.kathimitchell.com/poemtypes.html

April

 

April Calendar

Poetic License ~ Race

How good a tongue twister are your students?

40 seconds and over:
Too slow. Your grandparents could say the poem faster.

30 to 40 seconds:
Not bad. You’re probably a faster talker than the President.

20 to 30 seconds:
Pretty good. You’ve been gifted with a fast pair of lips.

15 to 20 seconds:
Excellent. You can out talk anyone around.

14 seconds or less:
You are a tongue tying champion!

If you’re going to stage the race as a competition, divide the students into teams or let them compete against one another individually. Then get a stopwatch, let everyone practice the poem a few times, and see who can say it correctly the fastest!

Betty Botter

Betty Botter
bought some butter.
“But,” she said,
“the butter’s bitter.
If I put it
in my batter,
it will make
my batter bitter.
But a bit
of better butter–
that would make
my batter better.”

So she bought
a bit of butter,
better than
her bitter butter.
And she put it
in her batter,
and the batter
was not bitter.
So ’twas better
Betty Botter
bought a bit
of better butter!

–By Anonymous