Mrs. Smith's classroom blog: A Tie Dyed Classroom!

Wednesday, February 4, 2015

A Tie Dyed Classroom!

Newsletter 2/2/2015 click here.

On Friday we met with our Reading buddies from Ms. Schmidt's room. They were dressed up in their career outfits, so we took some fun pictures! Click here to see them.

This week we tie dyed. Here are some pictures from our experience!

2/2/2015

Dear Parents,

Tomorrow your child will have a Spooner Rails t-shirt at school to wear. They will get to change into this shirt at school for our Rails Rally day, a time to celebrate our school. As teachers we will then collect and wash your child’s Spooner Rails tie dyed t-shirt, so that they will have them for specific grade level days; field trips, Econ fair, Olympics day. After our last event of the year, your child’s t-shirt will come home for them to keep.

We just wanted to let you know that these t-shirts were generously funded by 73 donors on Donors Choose. A total of $791 was given to fully fund this project! These t-shirts were then screen printed through Anthony Walter Designs of Spooner. We tie dyed them together on Monday.

Donors Choose gives us this terrific opportunity! If you’d like to see other projects on Donors Choose in our school, visit www.donorschoose.org/mrssmith121, http://www.donorschoose.org/kfizel, or www.donorschoose.org/lrubesch.

We hope they enjoy this t-shirt for many moments to come. Please let us know if you have any questions. Thank you,

J Mrs. Smith, Mr. Gibson, Mrs. Rubesch, Mrs. Fizel, and Mrs. Gores

Student Resources

Raz-Kids: Download the app. My teacher username is mrssmith124. Students know their password.

DreamBox & Prodigy: Please contact me for login information.

Google Drive (homework and in class activities): https://drive.google.com/

Math Playground, fun math games for practice: http://www.mathplayground.com/grade_3_games.html

https://www.gonoodle.com/ and sign up for free as a parent.

www.flocabulary.com/join-class Please ask for the home code to join and use at home.

Apps we use on a regular basis:
Book Creator
QR Code Reader
Seesaw

All about me

About Mrs. Smith: Mrs. Smith grew up in Barron, Wisconsin where she graduated from Barron Senior High School. She got married shortly after high school to her husband, Sam. They moved to Superior, Wisconsin where Mrs. Smith began college at the University of Minnesota Duluth. There Mrs. Smith began studying elementary education right away. She worked in multiple classrooms from Kindergarten to 8th grade. Mrs. Smith had her first son, Noah during college and her daughter, Isabelle, shortly after graduating college. For a year after college she substitute taught in local schools in the Duluth and Superior area and worked at a restaurant. When she was hired at Spooner Elementary her family bought a house in Wascott and moved. In 2011-2012 Mrs. Smith taught her first year as a Spooner 3rd grade teacher. In 2012-2013 Mrs. Smith was a 2nd grade teacher. She started teaching 3rd grade again in the 2013-2014 school year. Mrs. Smith had her 3rd child, Jonah, in December of 2013. She also coached volleyball. Her family moved to Sarona in 2014. In October of 2016 Mrs. Smith had Annabelle! She is now starting her 7th year at Spooner Elementary School. She loves teaching 3rd grade! She has a passion for teaching and her students.

Mrs. Smith has a large family. She has three brothers, six sister-in-laws, and a brother-in-law. She has seven nephews and seven nieces. Her parents and in-laws still reside in Barron, Wisconsin.

Besides teaching Mrs. Smith enjoys scrapbooking, being involved in her church, enjoying the outdoors, being with family, playing board games, volleyball, and flavored coffee.