Anansi Completed Projects

Class 3-1 have finally completed their work on Anansi the Spider.  They all did a great job working in groups to complete their projects and today we had the opportunity to watch the 3-1 Anansi Theatre Group perform their own remake of Anansi and the Seven Yam Hills by Elizabeth Lane. As you will see in the video, their version is called Anansi and the Six Potatoes and Anansi is up to his old mean tricks.



Class 3-1 is full of students who are anxious to learn everyday.  This ELL class spend a couple of weeks in the library listening to Anansi stories and sharing what they learned about Anansi tales.  This particular group performed their own remake of an Anansi tale in which Anansi tricks all the animals...until he meets Ms. Nancy the goose.

Anansi the Spider Has Arrived in the Library

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Class 3-1 has begun their African unit and have decided to focus their studies on the West African folktales of Anansi the Spider.  After learning some basic facts about Africa, Ms. Sosa and I read some of the more popular retold stories about this little trickster.  In each of the stories they learned that Anansi was a lazy, mean, and greedy character.  Students listened to:
Anansi and the Magic Stick by Eric Kimmel
Ananse and the Lizard by Pat Cummings
Ananse's Feast by Tololwa M. Mollel

They are currently working on group projects that include acrostic poems, 3D Anansi, Anansi and African animals, as well as remake performance of Anansi and the 5 Yams Plant with a class 3-1 twist.  Be on the lookout for some of the final projects soon, in the meantime check out the work in progress below:

Celebrating Our Authors

In previous posts we saw how Ms. Simon's Class 1-4 were able to visit the library and work on a research project about animals.  The final product was a wonderful book about different types of animals.  See those posts HERE.

On May 5th the classes' parents had the opportunity to visit the library and celebrate what their children accomplished....even some little frosted animal crackers joined our celebration.

To see the process in action click on the movie I created below.

All About Animals Book Project from Ms. LaLuz on Vimeo.

Class 1-3 White House Project

Original Poem created by Ms. Simon

White House Project 2011 from Mildred LaLuz on Vimeo.

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Happy Earth Day

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What's Been Happening?

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Our library resources include more than just books for students. This quick slideshow presents a glimpse of students, staff and parents using the library for a variety of reasons.  Animoto is a great and easy way to create slideshows of pictures or videoclips for personal or professional use.  We hope to continue to use our Animoto account to add more slideshows in the future.

The First Year