Horton the Elephant

To continue our love of reading during March is Reading month, the junior kindergartners loved listening to the book, Horton Hears a Who by Dr. Seuss and creating Horton's for our hallway display! As part of our study of character strengths through the Positivity Project, we brainstormed a list of character strengths that Horton possesses and added them around a directed draw of Horton that we completed together in class! We also had fun making our handprints into Horton while remembering his very important message, "A person's a person, no matter how small!"

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Author Maria Dismondy Visits Glengary!

On the morning of Monday March 23rd, Maria Dismondy, author of so many amazing children's books including Spaghetti in a Hot Dog Bun and The Jelly Donut Difference, visited Glengary Elementary!  Students is grades junior kindergarten through second grade met with her in the cafeteria where she shared stories of her childhood and her journey to becoming an author.  We absolutely loved listening to her read to us from her book, Buddy the Bucket Filler.  It was so exciting and inspiring for the students to learn that they too can become an author like Maria Dismondy! 

Glengary Talent Show

We had so much fun watching all of our talented schoolmates at our Glengary Talent Show! We especially loved cheering on our 5th Grade Safety, Eliana, as she sang "Defying Gravity" from Wicked! Bravo Eliana! We are so proud of you! 👏

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

 The leprechauns were on the loose at Glengary on St. Patrick's Day! In Media Center, the students used magnatiles to make leprechaun traps, but did not have much luck catching one! When they returned to class, those tricky little leprechauns made quite a mess of our classroom and even turned the toilets in our bathroom green! They were nice enough to leave a note for the students with a special treat and hidden pots of gold! 

During our literacy stations, the students had fun counting the syllables from the pictures on gold coins and placing the coins in the corresponding pots (1, 2, 3, 4 syllable pots), matching lowercase letters on gold coins to uppercase letters on pots and tracing the letters, finding St. Patrick's Day words around the room and writing them on their clipboard, and coloring the Leprechaun, Leprechaun, What Do You See? book to add to their book boxes. During Story Workshop, the students enjoyed using pieces to create and tell stories about a leprechaun.

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Building Leprechaun Traps in Media Center

The Leprechauns Were Here!

Counting & Sorting Syllables

Matching & Tracing Upper & Lowercase Letters

Writing the Room

Story Workshop Leprechaun Stories

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