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Matilda by Roald Dahl Matilda is a girl who is a geinus who’s parents are compleate and total nitwits.Her school teacher discovers something amazing about Matilda.The story of Matilda is jaw-dropping.My favorite charicter is the school teacher.As Matilda faces her headmisstres she will learn too control her stuning power. This Student Book Review was written […]
Read MoreThe Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis The lion the witch and the wardrobe is an allegory of the bible.A girl named Lucy discovers a magical world called Narnia her older siblings Peter,Susan and Edmund don’t believe her.But when they all climb into the wardrobe the adventure begins.There’s magic and mythical creatures […]
Read MoreThe Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis During World War II, Peter,Susan,Lucy and Edmund all went into a mysterious wardrobe. Here they discovered that they had traveled into a mysterious land called Narnia where they met the beavers who showed them to Aslan, a powerful lion who was the good king of […]
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You supported the DonorsChoose. You celebrated when the project was fully funded. You followed the updates on Facebook and listened to me yak yak yak about this passion project (sorry about all the exclamation points….sort of). And now, finally, you get to see what it’s all about. Last Friday, Johnson’s brand new engineering and maker club, […]
Read MoreJanuary has been one wild month. Robots, dogs, mustaches… we’ve seen it all. I don’t think I can even begin to describe this one well enough… so I’ll let the pictures do all the talking! Hold on tight… It was a warm Fitz-welcome back from winter break with my new name all over the library […]
Read MoreI Survived the Great Chicago Fire, 1871 by Lauren Tarshish This Student Book Review was written by Oak, a Johnson Elementary School student, and shared with the library via Google Docs. Oak drafted and typed the book review independently. Oak is in the fourth grade.
Read MoreFourth 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 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 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 […]
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