Brain Bank

Emily, Mira, Dash and Jonah are taking part in a class called Brain Bank. Brain Bank is a reading and writing program with science as the main topic. They take turns reading books out loud to each other before completing comprehension, vocabulary or writing activities. They read “Keeping Clean” about how different animals bathe and then worked together on a vocabulary puzzle. “On the Move” was about how humans and various animals run, walk, jump, swim, swing, hang, slide and slither. Each student used information from the book to write their own animal riddle using descriptive clues for the other students to guess. After reading “Down the Drain” about how and where water moves, they collaboratively wrote a story pretending they were goldfish who accidentally get flushed down the drain. They are currently working on individual descriptive writing pieces describing why trees are important after reading “Trees are Terrific.”