ELP Mo. Valley

Medieval Times Report                 Third grade, Fourth grade, and Fifth grade are doing projects about Kings, Queens, Knights, and more! 3 rd grade has been reading “Door in the Wall”, while 4 th grade is reading “Castle in the Attic”, and Fifth grade is reading “King Arthur”. All three of these talented grades are learning medieval words, such as chivalry, portcullis, and grotesque. In the display case, you can see a castle with people, and a life sized “Long Sword”! There’s also 3 rd grade’s “Coat of arms”! Here are two facts about medieval times: Purple was the most expensive dye, and the Caste system (when you are born to something, you stay that thing, such as being royalty means you stay royalty)! We still have projects in progress, like a courtyard and a kitchen. We are also making a master chamber and a dungeon. There is a poster hanging in the display case. It has a timeline of the medieval...

It is hard to believe but we are 1/2 way through the final quarter of the school year!  My goodness, how the time is flying by.  As the year winds down, we want to post an update on our ELP happenings: K/1st Grade ELP---We meet 2 times a week for 20-25 minutes each time.  Our focus has been research on a wide variety of topics and creating an informative poster.  A few of the poster topics have been:  the circulatory system, magnets, black holes, The Titanic and The BP Oil Spill (Deep Water Horizon). 2nd Grade ELP---We recently finished "Pippi Longstocking" and "Amelia Bedelia 4 Mayor" where our focus was visualization, vocabulary and figurative language such as, idioms and words with multiple meanings.  Our final project for the year will be a novel study of "The Hundred Dresses" where we will connect with our school's Character Education program and continue to develop inference skills. 3rd-5th ELP-- Currently we are working on a cross-curricul...