Wonderopolis

I wanted to share a really cool website with you...

National Center for Family Literacy launches new Wonderopolis™ site. Start exploring today!

Wonderopolis™ is for parents and children to nurture a sense of wonder and build a brighter world for children through the power of discovery, creativity, learning and imagination. Through the guidance of the National Center for Family Literacy and the support of Thinkfinity.org, Wonderopolis™ shows families, and reminds us all, that learning is fun. Whether it's a curious question or an everyday adventure, learning follows us wherever we go. Wonderopolis™ helps bring fun family-learning experiences to the dinner table, in the carpool line or at the park.

Each day, visit Wonderopolis™ for the Wonder of the Day® a simple activity for parents to share and explore the wonders of everyday life with children. Talk about what makes popcorn pop while preparing a snack for a movie. Go stargazing and chat about where shooting stars come from. Take a break from rereading the same story and ask a child to create a new one on the spot.

I have a dream too!

We have been talking a lot about heroes in the past couple of months. The Dr. King holiday this week gave us another opportunity to talk about how heroes can inspire us to be great. We watched a video version of the book Martin's Big Words and will be using an online template to create our own books.


Kids: When you are ready to print out your own Big Words book, click here to type it up. Remember that you will not be able to save it - work quickly!



Martin Luther King Jr. from Online Bucket on Vimeo.

Here are the historical photographs we looked at in class: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/special/mlk/photogallery/1956-62/thumbs.html

Vacation Fun!

Our Tuesday writing homework is to think about something fun/a special memory you have from your winter vacation and describe it in detail. Here's my assignment for you to read...

      There were a lot of special moments during my vacation but one of my favorite memories was watching my nephews wrestle during lunch one day. We had just ordered our food and we were relaxing in our booth, waiting for it to arrive. Sam started grabbing his older brother Jake around the neck and squeezing him and wrestling him down to the bench seat. He was making the funniest noises and angry faces. We couldn't stop laughing at how silly he was being. He would start to settle down and then suddenly start up all over again. Jake was such a good sport and didn't even mind being attacked. He was laughing about it too because it was so funny and unexpected. My sister and I snapped a bunch of pictures and I caught a little bit of the craziness on video with my phone. I had never seen him act like that before. He was a total wild man! It makes me smile even now just thinking about it all again...


Have fun writing about your memory and feel free to type it up and include a picture too!