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Fourth grade parents, heads up! This afternoon, STEAM Team flyers will be coming home with your students. The first session will only be open to fourth graders, but the plan is to open the club to younger grades soon. Check out an electronic version of the flyer below for details. Return your completed flyer to […]
Read MoreIt’s time for our traditional By the Numbers post! I love the way that this annual post allows me to look back on the calendar year to celebrate all that we have accomplished and make goals for the year to come. 2015 has been a spectacular year, and I was so happy to share it […]
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We did it! 100 hours of computer programming and coding in three weeks. We learned. We grew. We wrote. We made mistakes. We were scared and unsure and we kept on going, anyway. We built, deleted, built, deleted, and built again. We honed our critical thinking skills, used our best logic, pushed our creative thinking […]
Read MoreThis morning, reporters from NBC29 stopped by the Learning Leopard Library to find out all about our Hack-a-Thon. They crashed a third grade Choose Your Own Adventure Code Party, where third graders get to choose their mission for the day – code your Minecraft characters to build houses? Program your own Flappy Bird game? Write your […]
Read MoreMatilda by Roald Dahl This is a book about a five-year-old girl, who has horrible parents. She learned to talk when she was one, learned to read when she was three, and she was fluent with multiplication by the time she was five. Her parents were not home much, and that’s when Matilda discovered the […]
Read MoreLast week, I issued a challenge to our third and fourth graders. A big challenge. A big, scary, challenging challenge. I challenged Johnson’s third and fourth grade students to code and program for 100 hours during the month of December. Let’s get some background here. Kids these days are savvy tech users. They can swipe a […]
Read MoreWarriors by Erin Hunter It all started off with a kittiepet named Rusty. One morning he decided he would join a clan. It was a really good book because it was all adventurous and there was always suspense in each chapter. All the characters were believable and some were trustworthy and some were traitors. So […]
Read MoreWarriors by Erin Hunter This book was full of exiting adventure and suspensful plot twists. A cat named Rusty meets a warrior cat named Graypaw.He meets two other cats named Bluestar and Lionheart.It is so heartwarming! This Student Book Review was written by Rachel, a Johnson Elementary School student, and shared with the library via Google […]
Read MoreWarriors by Erin Hunter It is about a cat that ends up going in the woods.He becomes a clan member . It was a very tense book.It is good read for someone who likes cats and adverture.I liked it because it was very exciting.You should totely read it. This Student Book Review was written by Forcey, a Johnson […]
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Here’s a fact about me that not many people know: my father is British. Yep, with the accent and everything. He grew up in Radcliffe-on-Trent, a large village in the Rushcliffe borough of Nottinghamshire (my Nan still lives there, in the same house!). He left his family and his home and immigrated to America in […]
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