Our literacy week and fundraiser was a huge success.  We enjoyed celebrating and promoting reading in honor of Dr. Seuss.  Meadow Brook wants to say THANK YOU for all of the participation and support during Literacy Week.  We are excited to get more books for our Leveled Library and technology programs to enhance student learning.  We are already looking forward to this event for next year!

Ever wonder what your Social Media page would look like if you were posting on an actual wall instead of a virtual one?  Students in Sherri's Class worked on the concept of facts and opinions in a project based learning format throughout the month of February.  Each student posted a fact on their "wall" and their opinion on a friend's wall for each major holiday and/or event throughout February.  We talked about friendship and being friends with each person in our class.  We learned facts about groundhogs, Valentine's day, Chinese New Year, and President's day.  We

We are writers!! Kindergarten students in Mrs. Kadish's class write stories in their journals every week. Today we wrote about things that make us grouchy.

In third grade we had a fun science experiment where my students learned to talk about the importance of making good observations in the scientific method. Students were given ice-globes, salt, sugar, magnifying glasses and flashlights. As they poured salt and sugar on the ice-globe they were encouraged to observe the difference between the two. Even though salt and sugar look identical, we observed they have different chemical compositions because one melts ice, where the other does not. This experiment then led to another important step in the scientific method, questioning.