CE Google Hangout with the AMAZING Josh Funk!

Click the photo below to see the highlight of our day - A Google Hangout with the AMAZING author - Josh Funk!

We Are Makers: CISD Summer Library Activities

Eggcellent Learning with Farmers Pa & Mcmillin

Photo source: http://www.adventuresci.org/events/event/eggcellent-science-2/

My two FAVORITE farmers visited CE last Friday! Farmer Pa and Farmer Mcmillin taught our students all about the life cycle of a chicken. Not only that, they have supplied our 1st grade classrooms with eggs that hatched today!

Farmer Pa & Farmer Mcmillin are here-CE 1st Ss learning about chickens @randicheyenne7 #castleberryisd #ceohgo pic.twitter.com/ZBiOKh81wq

— Sallee Clark (@libraryclark) May 13, 2016

1st grade has baby chicks! #ceohgo pic.twitter.com/W9BtSQytPu

— Cheyenne McMillin (@randicheyenne7) May 16, 2016

Students also learned about how a baby chick hatches and the anatomy of a chicken.  Did you know chickens have an egg tooth? Following the lessons with our farmers, students returned to the library to learn about sound waves and sounding boards.  Students created their very own chickens in a cup. We had so much fun with these farmers! Thank you Ms. Mcmillin for including the library in your science lessons!

CE May Library Newsletter

EPIC Author Hangout: Rubin Pingk

 
WOW! I think we just experienced the BEST author Google Hangout EVER!  Mr. Rubin Pingk, author/Illustrator or Samurai Santa, agreed to Google Hangout with us this past Friday.  With over 800 students in attendance online, Mr. Pingk encouraged our students to join him in his recipe for doing anything:

He encouraged our kiddos to follow this recipe in everything they do in life.  Start - start doing, Do it More, Don't give up, keep going, then go back and re-do the bad stuff.  Mr. Pingk also warned us about the enemies lurking to destroy our recipe.  

The enemies to success include: Procrastination, Frustration, becoming Satisfied, and Ego/Pride!  WOW! What great lessons to learn at a young age! Not only that, this goes perfect with our school theme of having a growth mindset.

Want to be encouraged by this brilliant recipe? Check out the Google Hangout below!  He also shares how he made a book, his favorite book, how to draw Yukio, and more!

We also had the chance to ask a few questions.  To manage this across 800 students we used the twitter hashtag #Pingkrocks

#pingkrocks Tweets

We also sent a few questions ahead of time to Mr. Pingk and he created some amazing artwork to answer them :)

Thank you Mr. Pingk for an 

EPIC Google Hangout!