![]() ![]() ![]() This summer the MVP of the tournament will throw out the first pitch before a Yankee home game. 12 year old Nick Garcia is the star pitcher on the Bronx Blazers a team in the summer Dream League a tournament which the Yankees sponsor to bring more kids from the city into baseball. Strike Zone by Mike Lupica is equal parts baseball and family drama. Students used their personal reflections to create an Etheree - a new form of poetry - which is 10 lines, starting with one syllable in the first line and increasing one syllable each line, to 10 syllables in the last line. The book sparked our discussion and reflection on this year and half of Covid, including remembering what quarantine was like at home and with their family, our hybrid schooling, wearing masks, and distancing. To conclude the year, we read Outside, Inside a beautiful book by LeUyen Pham about what happened across the World when Covid surfaced. Finally, students used Adobe Sparks to create a video about the inventor they studied and the invention. Student's read or heard a literary non fiction book about how bandaids, bubble gum, the slinky and the super soaker were invented. In connection with our One Book, One School, third graders read about inventors, (like Cleo) and how they thought of their invention and was able to make it happen and sell it.
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