This video is  a puppet show that was adapted from the story One Monday Morning . This was their very first performance with Ms. Erin.

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Key Historical Players:
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John Hancockarch_who_jhancock.html

Thomas Boylston – As prominent Boston merchants, the Boylstons inevitably joined in the growing dispute over Parliamentary regulation and taxation of American commerce and goods. Both the business papers illustrating this traffic and the letters of friends and associates such as William Cooper, Harrison Gray, Benjamin Hallowell, Daniel Leonard, Daniel Lisle, and Charles Paxton, reflect the mounting opposition to British authority and policy. The correspondence contains discussions of the revenue acts of the 1760s and 1770s, the arrival of British troops in Boston, the battles of Lexington, Concord, and Bunker Hill, the subsequent progress of the war, and the impact of the war on life and conditions in Massachusetts and Great Britain. Both John and Thomas supported the Crown in the dispute and, as a result, removed to England following the outbreak of hostilities.

(Unfornately, no research results for Honor T. nor Elizabeth H. were found.)

However, more sites to follow!

• The PTAs of Brooklyn’s public schools are coming together to sponsor a 5 kilometer race/walk/stroll/toddle in Prospect Park. Individuals and families can run, walk, stroll the loop around Prospect Park.
• Participants pay the registration fee, and then, if they want to help raise additional money, find people to sponsor them. There will be prizes for the top fundraisers!
• 50% of post race profits are divided evenly among qualifying schools and 50% is divided according to school size. Each school needs 20 or more participants to qualify for a portion of the prize.

Registration fees: $15 Individual, $25 Family

On-Line Registration (NYCRUNS.com): https://nycruns.com/races/registration?controller=event&task=options&eventId=15

On-Site Registration: 8:30 to 9:30 AM

Click below to get the registration forms:

Brooklyn PTA 5K Run 2011
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Race time: 10:00 AM

If you sign up for the event, please email Suzanne at sod@nyc.rr.com to officially add your name to our Team P.S. 130 line-up.

Any questions, please email Suzanne at sod@nyc.rr.com

Finishing up on our non-fiction focus this week, why not try reading and following the how-to directions featured above to make your own buggy clips! (Hints: click on each photo to enlarge it so you can read more easily. The picture on the far left is for you to get pattern ideas for what shapes to cut out.)

During our focus on non-fiction texts this week in getting prepared for upcoming state tests in literacy and science, our class used butterflies as the theme – using the book Endangered Butterflies, by Bobbie Kalman as part of our shared reading. Today, students became the test “makers” as they partnered up to read selections from the book and create questions, such as vocabulary in context or inference, for other teams to answer. Indeed, after all the success the students had this morning, they are on their way to being test “masters”!

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Highlights include music, dancing, pasta dinner for purchase, decorate your own cupcake bar, and our amazing Silent Auction! Bring your friends and family!

See the flier here Spring Dance 2011

Full list of Auction items here Silent Auction List

ELA:
Kids Detective Lab

Eye Spy - every good detective needs to brush up on those visual inference skills! (from History Detectives @ PBS.org)

MATH:
Test Quest 4 – Review problem solving strategies (’cause every detective needs a bunch of problem solving tricks!)

Test Prep Practice - get really good at sleuthing out the correct answer on multiple choice questions.

and if you’re a super sleuth: Brain Teasers! to really give your brain work out! (or try this easier version to give your brain a warm up or give yourself a challenge with this harder level!)

…and for an all around search website that’s kid detective friendly, check out cybersleuth-kids.com
(if you do, please post a comment about what you thought, how you used this site, etc., so that rest of the detectives can follow your lead!)

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