Our Fifth Grade students read a great selection of books this year as independent reading choices. They used an online application called Adobe Spark to create book trailers or short videos that introduce their books without giving away the endings.

Enjoy viewing the videos they created about their books.

Anabelle read a graphic novelization of the classic Les Miserables. 

Mason thinks you’ll enjoy The Last Straw, a funny book that’s part of the Wimpy Kid series.

Sophie recommends Just Jaime, a book about friendship. 

Do you like mysterious books filled with suspense? Then Josh recommends Code of Silence.

Channing thinks you’ll like The Lost Heir, part of the Wings of Fire books about dragons.

Do you have really great friends, or wish that you did? Sophia recommends Best Friends for you.

If you like chocolate and other sweet treats, August thinks that you’ll probably want to read Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

Avril recommends Stargazing, a graphic novel about friendship.

If you’re a fan of Harry Potter books, Ayla knows you’ll want to read the exciting end of the series–The Deathly Hallows.

Enjoy these exciting interactive adventure stories created by our 6th Grade students. Each of the presentations below will provide you with lots of choices as you progress through the story.
Beware: not all of the endings are happy ones!

Tip: the stories below are non-linear. Please click on the active links within the stories to select the different story paths, as opposed to just advancing to the next slide. To choose different endings, click on the house icons on the slides.

Fifth Grade students read a great selection of books this year as independent reading choices. They used an online application called Adobe Spark to create book trailers or short videos that introduce their books without giving away the endings.

Enjoy watching their trailers below.

If you like sci-fi thrillers, Blake recommends that you read Gone.

Imagine if the narrator of a book is a dog! Riley thinks you’ll like Dog Diaries.

Veronika recommends All Summer Long, a graphic novel about friendship. 

Eddie read Brave, a graphic novel about a boy who is trying to survive middle school.

Wynne recommends New Kid, an award-winning graphic novel about a boy who struggles to adjust to his new school. 

Jaya wants you to imagine what life was life for Cleopatra VII: Daughter of the Nile.

If you like sports, Hudson recommends The Crossover, an award-winning book about twin basketball stars.

Brendan thinks that you will like Guts, a true story by Raina Telgemeir.

Do you like pranks? If so, Angela recommends The Terrible Two’s.

Emma thinks you will like She’s the Liar, a story that takes place in a boarding school.

Alcatraz was a maximum-security prison. Could someone really escape? Brent recommends Escape from Alcatraz.

Imagine losing your 2 front teeth right before middle school starts. Tommy thinks you’ll like Smile.

If you like stories about amazing dogs, Brayden recommends No Better Friend, a true story of a brave dog in World War II.

If you like dragons and fantasy books, Katie recommends Dragonslayer, part of the Wings of Fire Legends series.

As the final project for their Information Technology classes, students created original interactive “Choose Your Own Adventure” stories using Google Slides. You can explore their adventure tales with lots of different story choices below.

In our exploration of the 800’s Dewey Category, the Fourth Grade students completed a unit on poetry. The students enjoyed reading Scranimals, which is a clever collection of imaginary creatures written by children’s poet laureate, Jack Prelutsky. In the book, illustrator Peter Sis created great pictures of these new creatures, which are combinations of animals with fruits, vegetables or plants. The students spent a few class periods combining the characteristics and the names of different animals and objects and were inspired to create their own original drawings and poems. They are proud to present their creativity in this slide show:

During their library block, the 7th Graders spent a few weeks refining their information search skills, learning new strategies to help them research more effectively. These skills were utilized in their History/English project, which included a written paper and slide presentation. Then, they honed their communication skills by exploring the elements of good story writing.  The students’ culminating project combined all of these skills and creativity using Google’s Search Stories Video Creator.  Using this fairly new online application, the students created short videos combining their actual search terms with music. Their work is showcased below in a playlist that includes all of their videos, and we think you’ll agree that they’ve done a great job on this new project in digital storytelling!

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