Read Newbery Challenge

In the Design Den this week, an Upper School English class is creating symbols from their reading of Siddhartha. This picture shows some brainstorm sketches on the IdeaPaint whiteboard walls. It is great to have entire walls dedicated to brainstorming, sketching, and creating! I may write a dedicated post later on this project with more details, but wanted to include a brief update for now.

Later on in the week Middle School Geometry will be creating cardboard shapes using the laser cutter and Microsoft Publisher. It will be interesting to see what students create.

In addition to the Design Den projects going on, this week I had the pleasure of giving a brief presentation to the 6th grade reading classes at my school on the Read Newbery Challenge. The students are participating in a class-wide Newbery challenge, where each student must read at least three books from the Newbery winner or Newbery honor lists. I talked with them about my Read Newbery challenge, where I read all 93 (at the time) winners, in order, then blogged about each one. I also made a settings map. The blog and map are linked on my Google Slides presentation.