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Our Literary Voyage to the Seven Continents
First Stop: 
Mexico, North America

Kindergarten Students Make Their Own Sombreros

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                 The Fourth Grade 

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After reading folk and fairy tales that originated in Mexico, fourth grade students enjoy the Mexican Hat Dance. 

Mexican Hat Dance!

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                           Sombreros: 

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Second Grade Style

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China, Asia

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Students Get Creative

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Rabbit's Gift:  A Folktale From China
and an origami rabbit made by a third grade student. 

Welcome to China

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The doorway into another world!

Antarctica in April
Second Graders Get Silly in the Snow

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Penguin Puppets

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A kindergarten students works on a paper bag penguin puppet after reading The Emperor's Egg, a non-fiction story about how penguin's care for their young.

Baby, It's Cold Outside!

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Students enjoying some leisure time in the RRES library's version of Antarctica where the coldest temperature ever recorded was 65 degrees unlike the real Antarctica where the lowest ever recorded temperature was -129 degrees! 

Mali, Africa

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Kindergarten students "on safari" with their homemade binoculars.


Brazil, South America

The Amazon Rainforest was full of all kinds of surprises!

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Ready for Carnival

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(and a good story!)

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Europe:  Tour de (Library) France

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No bicycles here!  Reference books were the key to victory in our version of the Tour de France.

Spending the Day Down Under

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Our Around the World Fiesta!

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Sampling foods from the seven different continents was quite a treat!
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One of RRES' wonderful parent volunteers provided French crepes for the fifth grade students. 
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