Book trailers, short video clips designed to entice viewers to read the book they are based upon, can be an effective tool for engaging students with age-appropriate literature. Our fifth grade language arts students recently completed a book trailer project using Photo Story 3 for Windows and shared their final products on their class blog. [...]

Speaking and writing in the target language are two fundamental goals of the World Languages Department.  To that end, our 5th grade Spanish students maintain a class blog (hosted by MICDS and powered by WordPress MU) where they can showcase their language skills.  For their first exercise, each student posted a letter that included an [...]

A few weeks ago, a delightful likeness of Flat Stanley arrived in my mailbox courtesy of my friend’s daughter Emma.  In her letter, Emma asked that I take some photos of her flat self so that she could add my location to their classroom’s Flat Stanley map.  Only too happy to oblige, Stanley traveled with [...]