Comic Life Biographies

Second grade at Village Elementary School have been busy researching famous people from the United States to complete a biography report. As a wrap-up project this year two classes, Mrs. Moody's class and Mrs. Audet's class decided to create a comic of their famous character. Using Plasq's Comic Life, the students pulled pictures from their research into a project and made the characters come to life with speech and thought bubbles describing their most famous events. A slideshow of the students' work is available online at www.yorkschools.org/~elawson. Check out the great work these students did on this project.

Testing, Testing, Testing

The students at both Village Elementary School and Coastal Ridge Elementary School have been busy in the labs and in our mobile lab (laptops set up in a portable classroom) taking standardized testing on the computers. Students Kindergarten through second grade are busy taking the CPAA tests to test their reading and math skills, while the students in third and fourth grade are busy taking the second edition of the NWEA tests to test their reading, language usage and math skills. Scores from the fall will be compared to the new scores this spring to evaluate student improvement over the school year.