My Mom’s The Best! by Mallorie Jenkins, 5th Grade

Mothers! Aren’t they the best things in the world? Well, my mom is! Sit down and relax and I will explain to you about my mom.

The first thing I’m going to explain to you is how my mom is the BEST!  She is the best because she does everything for me and my brother as a mom could do like cooking us good meals, cleaning our clothes, taking the best care of us, taking us to our hobbies, and most of all, giving us all her love. Another reason she’s the best is because she helps us with our homework and other important things in our life. She is the best mom because she works really hard to keep us healthy and pays the bills so that we can have water and light and all that stuff.

The second thing I’m going to explain to you is how loving my mom can be. She tells us she loves us when we wake up, she tells us she loves us when we get home from school, she tells us she loves us when we go to bed, and ofcourse when we are talking on the phone. You know…my mom’s just a lvong machine!

The last thing I’m going to explain to you is how much my mom cares for us. My mom means the world to me! She cares for me by feeding me, taking me places. I don’t know what I would do without my mom.

Now you see why my mom is the best mom ever! I just explained to you how my mom is the best mom ever, how loving she is, and how caring she is.

“Happy Mothers Day!”

By Valerie Bennett
Third Grade Teacher
Wrights Mill Road Elementary School

Want a “new” education tool? Not really new-it’s been around for more than 300 years! But, it can be new to your classroom! What is it? A newspaper! There are endless educational opportunities when using a newspaper - you just need one in your classroom!

NIE (Newspapers in Education) is not only kid-friendly, but also is a great classroom resource. Start with the basics - read it to your class! Each Wednesday, my 3rd grade class loves to hear what The Cub Reporter from our own Opelika-Auburn News has discovered! “Knowledge is power,” I tell my class!
 

Are you studying Current Events? Get more information straight from the newspaper! Studying Geography? What places are mentioned in the paper! Map them!

A classic newspaper activity is “The Scavenger Hunt.” Is your class learning about nouns and verbs? Antonyms? Homophones? Pass out a section from the paper to a pair or group of students and have them “hunt” for those words that you are studying! Students love it!

Are you a “Techie?” We love technology at Wrights Mill Road! Scan a grocery ad and show it on the SMART Board. For math, have students “purchase” items and spend their allotted $50 to buy items from the ad-what will they buy and how much will it cost? Or use it for Nutrition-have students plan and price several meals that correlate with the Food Guide Pyramid! Using your SMART Board, display a “Letter to the Editor” and have students write a response in return.

Publish a classroom newspaper! Study a newspaper and have students write their own: they name it, write front page articles (tied in to your current curriculum), advertisements, surveys, editorials, even classifieds!

It just takes a few steps in the right direction to reintroduce a classic educational tool-the newspaper!

The possibilities are endless, so get out there with your class and “read all about it!”