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Summer Learning 6/13/23 (we took yesterday off since Jazzy has riding lessons in Georgetown on Mondays and went to the park after):

Writing prompt: What is your favorite color? Why does it make you happy? What is one thing you like that is that color?

Math: Skip counting by 2, 5, and 10

Animal: Sea Turtles

Place: Africa

Ok, so Eli and Max in 4th grade have told me at every recent Zoom that I MUST read this series. So today I begin it gentleman! Might take me a bit longer with classes starting back, but soon I’ll be ready for a discussion!

Got something you think I should read? Let me know!

Just a few hours left before fall break! Mrs. Young is sooooooo excited to see friends back in school on October 14th! Make sure to keep reading over break and get ready to talk about lots of great books when we get back!

And if you are staying virtual, I will keep recording lots of great books for you to enjoy! And I will see you soon!

Missing our Who Would Win books at school? I just found Bizarre Beast Battles on Epic (getepic.com) and I think fans of the WWW will love it! Read on Northern Stars!

My family will be watching this for movie night this evening on Disney+. If you love the book check out the movie and let me know what you think!

A great opportunity to see what SCPL has to read for tweens!

Join our Youth Services staff for a VIRTUAL Book Bites Book Club this Friday, May 29 at 12:00 pm on Facebook Live! We will talk about new releases in Juvenile, Tween, & Graphic Novel Fiction! 🤗✨

Learn more: https://bit.ly/2XpN8a2

Fans of J.K. Rowling, check out this awesome summer reading experience!

J.K. Rowling Introduces The Ickabog - J.K. Rowling About The Ickabog The idea for The Ickabog came to me while I was still writing Harry Potter. I wrote most of a first draft in fits and starts between Potter books, intending to publish it after Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. However, after the last Potter book I wanted to take a break […]

Personally I’ve read two graphic novels over the last two days. How do you spend your rainy indoor days?

4th and 5th grade students and teachers were asked during recent Zooms what random thoughts they had in relation to the Coronavirus. They shared some interesting insights...

“I don’t like this pandemic. I am stuck in the house and can’t go to King’s Island. Like all I do is watch TV for hours or do random chores.”- Jordyn

“I don’t like that I can’t play with my friends anymore.”- Jacob and Brody

“I go outside lots of the time now. One day we stayed out for about 6 hours.”- Mickie

“I think some things are better since the pandemic happened, like not as much oil being used and not chopping down as many trees.”- Tinsley

“One thing that sticks out to me is everyone wearing masks. Masks are an accessory now. You have all these different ones now and all these different looks. That was not something you would normally wear before, much less want to show off.” -Mrs. Cook

“I am tired of hearing the word pandemic! That word wasn’t even in my vocabulary before this. “Pandemic, pandemic, pandemic” every hour! So now me and Dad just play cards every night instead of watching the news. At the end of the year when they ask us what we will toast goodbye for 2020, everyone will say “Goodbye coronavirus”; it won’t even be a question. I think things will eventually go back to normal, but it won’t be the old normal. There will be significant changes to everything.” -Clay

“I want to go back to school! I even want to take KPREP.” -Sarah

“I want to go back to school to see my friends!” -Sophia

“We can’t even go meet our neighbors. Normally I would say, “go meet those kids you’ll be in middle school with” but right now I can’t. That is a sad thing. But a good thing is that I can go outside and see birds and animals just living their lives, and they have no idea there is even a pandemic!” -Mrs. Winkle

“Remember when everyone thought that 2012 was going to be the end of the world?...I think they got the numbers wrong…” -Gabe

“There will be some changes, but I think someday we’ll wake up and it will be normal. Someday I’m gonna be able to hug people again!” -Mrs. Werkheiser

“Maybe this is mother nature’s punishment for cutting down trees.” -Trey

“I just think it sucks because we gotta stay home!” -Jeslyn

I feel you friends! All Stars, I would like to encourage you to chronicle your pandemic thoughts in whatever way works for you, journal, poems, photos, art, social media, or any other way you can think of. Many years down the road it will something interesting to look back on. It would even be interesting to write/draw/whatever what you think the future will look like after the coronavirus.

Happy National Poetry Month! We have written some great poems on Zoom and Google Classroom this month. Today I got to make a Color poem with Brittany Bryan Thomas’ 1st grade class. They did an awesome job!

Making this video made us smile, but not as much as we will when we get back together!

NES Smile 2020 3 Welcome Back Northern Elementary. We miss you!