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First Graders Have a St. Patrick’s Day-Themed Math Activity

In Jennifer Horowitz’s first grade class at Todd School, St. Patrick’s Day is not just about soda bread, leprechauns and shamrocks…it is also about math.

On St. Patrick’s Day, Ms. Horowitz found a unique way to incorporate the holiday into a math lesson.

As part of their measuring unit, students used unifix cubes, which are math manipulatives, to measure green classroom objects such as crayons, pipe cleaners and dominos.

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Third Grader Inspires Art Teacher

At Todd Elementary School, students are inspired by teachers and vice versa.

Recently, Adi, a third grader, came into Paul Villanueva’s art class for a project. Because Adi is a big fan of numbers (his favorite is seven), his teacher, Jenn Woods, began drawing some. When Mr. Villanueva saw this, he recalled Jasper Johns’ famous painting “0 through 9,” in which colorful numbers are overlapping one another. He decided to create a project for the entire grade based on the painting.

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Best-Selling Author Jerry Pallotta Visits Todd School

Best-selling author Jerry Pallotta remembers what he liked to read when he was a child. This ability has enabled him to write more than 100 children’s books, most notably, the hugely popular Who Would Win series, which pits together two types of animals.

Second and third graders at Todd had a chance to meet Mr. Pallotta in the Todd library and find out all about his inspiration for his books, his love of travel and his writing process.

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