Star W Grant

1. Star W Grant Students Using Technology To Achieve Reading - Writing Parker Elementary School (Annex) at Trenton Public Schools

2. What is the Star W Grant? Students using Technology to Achieve Reading – Writing • meant to increase student achievement in Language Arts Literacy • grades 3 through 5 • by providing teachers with ongoing and sustained professional development and • in-class support directly related to integrating technology into the classroom.

3. Take Advantage of… • After school trainings on Tuesdays • Digital Cameras • Lesson Plans • Knowledgeable colleagues • Write Traits training and ideas

4. Orangutans by Alexis Morales The animal I am reporting on is the orangutan. Orangutans belong to the ape family. Orangutans live in rain forests in Southeast Asia and the island of Sumatra. My animal’s home is in the rain forest where there is lots of fruits. The orangutan mostly eats fruit. When they can’t find enough fruit to eat they eat leaves, bark, and insects. The young orangutans are called the young orangutans, too. Scientists are not sure how long orangutans live. They think that wild orangutans live anywhere from 30 to 45 years. One interesting thing that I have learned about orangutans was that orangutans are the largest apes living in Asia. Another interesting thing about orangutans was that they live in trees in the rainforest. But the most interesting thing of all about orangutans was that there are only 25,000 of them left in the whole world.

5. Ms. Abreu 3rd grade bilingual

6. A Wall of Snowby Karelyn Arroyo (Contd.)

7. A Wall of Snowby Karelyn Arroyo On a sunny winter day in Trenton, NJ I was playing outside with people. We were playing in the snow. Suddenly I saw a Herbie. Herbie is not the boy next door it is a wall of snow. Herbie suddenly smashed into me. I saw stars. A Herbie is made out of snow. Snow is formed when water freezes and crystallizes in the atmosphere. The snow could stay in the clouds or come down. In order to get snow the temperature has to be about -40 degrees Celsius so the water can become solid. There are three types of frozen precipitation they are grapnel (snow pellets), sleet (ice pellets), and hail (layered spheres of ice). When I was hit by Herbie I cried because the Herbie hit me hard. So I told my parents to take me to the hospital because I was bleeding. I was sad because I had to stay inside for 4 weeks. I could not go outside and play in the snow anymore. My mom and dad were so mad that Herbie hurt me, they went outside with a big bucket of hot water and threw it on Herbie. Herbie melted and never hurt anyone again.

8. STAR-W is Cross Curricular • … and out of this world…

9. Saturn – Team 4[Aron , Karina, Maycol, and Ana] • Saturn is the sixth planet from the sun. • Saturn is so far away in space that it takes nearly thirty years for it to orbit the sun once. • Saturn is a giant planet, second largest after Jupiter. • Saturn has rings around it. They are the largest rings of any planet. • Saturn is very cold because it is so far away from the sun.

10. Jupiter – Team 3[Walter, Nimia, Saidy, Stephanie, and Jesenia] • Jupiter was named by the ancient Romans after the king of their gods. • Jupiter is the fifth planet from the sun. • It is also the largest planet in the solar system. • This giant planet consists mainly of gas. • Jupiter makes a complete revolution around the sun in 11.9 earth years but it only takes 9.9 hours to rotate once on it axis.

11. Volcano Martin Bulik Mr. Jones 1/4/05

12. What kind of damage does it cause? • A volcano eruption can cause some serious damage. It can cause fires in the woods and it can kill people.

13. Where do most of these happen? • These can happen mostly around islands like Hawaii or other islands.

14. What is the weather like during this disaster? • The weather is terrible during this disaster - like clouds and lava and smoke and it’s just horrible.

15. How can you protect you and your family during a disaster? • I can protect me and my family by covering our mouths with our shirt, run as fast as we can, and find as much food and water as we can.

16. Silly Sentences – ESL Students • Thehotmonkeyswere swimming. - Brandon Badilla • The funny banana is sipping soda. - Nimia Herrera

17. My First Day in America Saba Malik - 5/17/05 (Mrs. Pantoja) When I came to America I was 9 years old. I came in an airplane with my family. My uncle, aunts, and big cousins came to the airport. We were going to Trenton, NJ. It was night so we decided to stay at my Uncle’s house. In my uncle’s house I ate chicken, chicken kababs, Chicken tekka and Biryani. The next day I went to my own house. Then one by one everybody took a shower. My mother pressed our clothes. I was wearing purple kameez shalwar. The weather was hot. I felt very happy. Then we went to another aunt’s house. That day I was feeling good. When we got there my aunt cried, then she took me in the rooms, and she was happy because I was there. My dad went to work and my aunt took all of us to the store. When I saw an escalator I was scared. My aunt said don’t worry I will hold your hand, and then she took me up. After shopping we went back to my aunt’s house. It was night so I went to sleep. That was my first day in America.

18. Thank you for watching! These projects are samples of the work that the students of Parker Annex School, Trenton have undertaken during the course of this year (2004-05) as a part of the Star W Grant Program. We hope you enjoyed watching the work of these students.