Fifth-graders in Jessica Giovino’s class at Birch School showed they know how to “get in the game” for PARP’s Game Day by playing a game-based reading activity to help strengthen their nonfiction reading skills. Students practiced reading various passages and identifying their text structure.

Date Added: 1/24/2022

Birch School's annual PTA sponsored Pick A Reading Partner program kicked off Jan. 14.

Students will spend the next two weeks choosing family activities that involve reading. The theme for this year's PARP is Birch Readers Know How to Get in the Game.

Third graders at Lakeside Levy School imagined what it would be like to be trapped inside a snow globe.

Students read the story, "Snow Globe Family" by Jane O'Connor, which tells the tale of a family living inside a snow globe.

“They used this story to inspire their own snow globe creation and completed a creative writing activity where they wrote about what they would do if they were inside a snow globe for a day,” explained teacher Dara Kaplan.

Date Added: 1/13/2022

Students in first-grade computer classes at Birch School combined their coding and reading skills.

Working with a partner, students applied their coding skills to find consonant-vowel-consonant words within the Code Mouse activity.

Students were challenged to find sound blends and four-letter words. Students worked together to find a word to code, plan out the correct code, and then test out their ideas to see if they correctly coded the word.

Date Added: 1/11/2022