Accelerated Reader Kickoff!!

Wednesday, October 24 was a day of great fun and  literacy building activities for the 9th, 10th and 11th grade students who participated in Edison's AR Kickoff. There were three stations-- Hangman, Scrabble, and Boggle-- manned by the enthusiastic City Year corps members that were extremely engaging and showed how exciting words can be. Mr. Valdes and Ms. Theodoris led the SmartBoard Base/Affix word creation games, and the teachers did read alouds with their kids. 

This beautiful sign, created by Ms. Money,  greeted the children as they entered the kickoff.

 9th grade superstar reading an additional book and taking an AR quiz.

 Mr. Mendez showing his all boys class that real men read.

 Mr. Valdes getting the 9th grade boys fired up about creating words with prefixes, bases and suffixes.

 Thoughtful Scrabble players pondering their next words.

 Team work at the Scrabble station.

 An engaging game of hangman using Tier 3 words.

 No cheating at Ms. Fox's Boggle table.

 Some serious competition at Ms. Macias' Scrabble station.

 Who said 10th graders don't enjoy a good read aloud?

 Even the most reluctant students can be lured into participating in a read aloud.

 Ms. Prentiss made the book come alive as she read and discussed SNOW with her 10th graders.

 Expanding language skills through a rigorous game of hangman with Ms. Louis.

 Post read aloud AR quiz

Ms. Jager's 10th graders using their creative writing vocabulary words on the Scrabble board.