Rochester AAUW members and community retired teachers enjoy volunteering every Wednesday to read/checkout books for K-5 graders at the Will Rogers School (Pontiac Schools).
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- 5th grade students at Will Rogers School Library reading/rating books during “March is Reading Month”.
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- Rate the illustrated fiction book you just read!
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- Fifth graders enjoy reading Black History “Illustrated Fiction” books – a tie in with February Black History Month and March Reading Month.
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- 4th and 5th graders at Will Rogers, Auburn Hills, earn “Frozen” posters for participating in the Black History Biography Reading challenge in February.
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- Sue, retired art/primary teacher, reads to interested 1st graders at Will Rogers School Library.
STARTING OFF 2020 WITH GREAT BOOKS AND EXCITED READERS!
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- Ms Sandy enchants the second graders with her storybook reading each Tuesday
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- Everyone in third grade is excited to have Ms Peg read the story of “IVAN, THE SHOPPING MALL GORILLA” by Katherine Applegate.
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- Ms Sue reads and play acts “The Three Bears” with the first graders
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- Rochester AAUW members Sharon K, Sharon P and Linda P checking out library books at the Will Rogers Elementary School each Tuesday, Bravo Gals!
Will Rogers School Library celebrated “MARCH IS READING MONTH” with this exciting bulletin board done by the library and school staff!
Will Rogers’ Fifth Graders Learn About Michigan’s Backyard Birds
AAUW-Rochester Members and Will Rogers’ 5th Graders observe measure and take notes on “backyard bird nests”!
Over 40 5th graders at Will Rogers Elementary School, after studying about backyard birds in Michigan, make winter bird pinecone feeders by painting the pinecones with vegetable shortening, putting bird seed in a paper bag, shaking it on the sticky edges and then tying a colorful string on so that the pinecone bird feeder can be attached to a tree branch. Excited students took the feeders home in colorful bags to place on their tree to observe their “backyard birds” tasting the flavorful bird seed!
Students at Will Rogers Elementary School are excited to read books from the library’s non-fiction baskets!
AAUW of Rochester invites you to participate in one or all of our Will Rogers Elementary School Projects:
Will Rogers library checkout day is once a week on Tuesdays.
- Grades 4-6 are on the even weeks and Grades K-3 are on the odd numbered weeks.
- Book are checked out for two weeks.
- Volunteer retired AAUW librarian and teachers read stories, teach library skills and assist the students in choosing exciting books.
Will Rogers student tutoring Grades (K-6). Work with a student to strengthen skills in reading, math and science.
Hands on science with a class of 2nd graders-Earth sciences is the current topic.
For more information, contact Sharon Postnieks spostnieks@yahoo.com
“STEAM” WORKSHOPS A HIT WITH 2ND GRADERS!
Second graders at Will Rogers Elementary School in Auburn Hills are calling themselves “scientists” and rightly so as they were part of three hands-on STEAM workshops this March on three Friday afternoons. The aim was to explain how Michigan water gets to the Great Lakes.
1st session –Building a watershed -high and low containers (hills and mountains) stacked to be landforms, covered in plastic (soil) and then rained on (squirt bottles) to see where the water flows (downward) to the lakes and rivers.
2nd session – Designing/cutting out a flour/salt dough model on cardboard of upper and lower Michigan with hills and lakes.
3rd session – Painting the Michigan model various colors that represent water, hills, flat land, etc. Final scientific test: Squirting water on the model to see where the water flows -to the edges of the map (Great Lakes).
Enrichment: Students colored a map of Michigan and the Great Lakes (HOMES) and then turned it into a six piece puzzle. Globes in the library showed world landforms and library books were checked out during library time on water, landforms and pollution which added to the learning of some very special 2nd graders at Will Rogers School.
It was great fun for all and a wonderful learning experience for the 74 2nd graders and their teachers: Ms Crenshaw and Ms Tolly who thanked the Rochester AAUW science assistants Suzie Daley, Judy Gordon, Jill Greimel, Dody Machnee, Sue and Mike McGill, Mary Mazure, Linda Pannuto, Linda Thomas, Judie Wurges along with Diane Kosuda for designing and directing the STEAM project and Sharon Postnieks for coordinating the event. BRAVO!
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- Testing the watershed with rainwater (squirt bottle).
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- Rochester AAUW “STEAM” member and 2nd graders building watersheds.
4th and 5th graders at Will Rogers, Auburn Hills, earn “Frozen” posters for participating in the Black History Biography Reading challenge in February.