Thursday, January 28, 2016
Wednesday, January 27, 2016
Fire Safety
Congrats to our classmate, Trent for winning the Fire Safety poster contest! All students did a fabulous job!
Thursday, January 21, 2016
Invention Convention
Today we had our Invention Convention. Students did an amazing job. Thank you to everyone who came. It was a great experience for out students.
Kindness
Mrs. Paula Phillips from Right Roads Kids sent us a Kindness Box following up with our Skype session on kindness with her. Inside it was K'Nex, Lincoln logs, paper, stickers, markers, and bookmarks. We are going to pass on the kindness next week!
Monday, January 18, 2016
Friday, January 15, 2016
MakerSpace
Every Friday we have MakerSpace time and we love it! It is a great time for us to work together, make mistakes, create, and solve problems together. The best part is our MakerSpace changes and grows every week! Watch the movie to see us in action! (Just click below)
Video: MakerSpace in action!
Video: MakerSpace in action!
Wednesday, January 13, 2016
Invention Convention
Just a reminder that you are invited to the Invention Convention on January 21st at 2:30 pm in our classroom. Students should return their inventions by Monday, January 18th. We will also be showcasing our biographies and have refreshments. We're very excited. If you lost your planning form, here it is:
Tweet Tweet
Dear Parents,
I am so excited to tell you about another classroom
adventure we have in the new year! Our
class will be sharing what we are learning about each day at school on twitter. I would love for you to follow us to see what
is happening in our room! The goal is that each week a student will be chosen
to ‘tweet’ about our day. We also plan
to share pictures of projects, events, and special activities to celebrate the
students and their hard work throughout the year. Don’t have twitter? No worry! I will
share snips of our tweets on our classroom blog as well!
Many schools and classrooms across the U.S. are using
Twitter as a learning tool for students and as a way to showcase the great
things that are happening in our schools on a daily basis. If you would like to see an example of
another elementary classroom using Twitter, check out: @TweetingTopDogs or Mrs.
Fizel’s class @ThirdGradeCharm. It is also neat to get information about topics
we are interested in like NASA, Lego, and see other third grade classrooms.
Sincerely, Mrs.
Smith
Monday, January 11, 2016
Flexible Seating
Through research and discussion with other teachers near and far I made a decision at the beginning of the year that students needed the opportunity to work how they learn best. Through Donors Choose I was able to get four stand up desks, which was step one. After using and implementing the four stand up desks I have now implemented step two, more flexible seating. Students can now come in the classroom in the morning, pick up their pencil can and choose a spot that will allow them to work at their best today. They may chose from a stand up desk, Wobble chair at a table, bean bag chair and short table, bean bag chair and clipboard, rocking chair, comfy chair, or the rug with a clipboard. Wherever they chose, they should chose a spot that they can do their best learning at. As adults many of us would rather work at a stand up desk, in a comfy office chair, or quite possibly even the couch. I no longer want to expect my students to have to sit in a hard chair, if that is not how they want to learn. With this new classroom environment there are new things that we are learning, but after day one of flexible seating, I believe already that this is what is best for our classroom. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me. You are always welcome to stop in and volunteer for an afternoon too and see what it is all about. If you want more information on our Donors Choose page, head to www.donorschoose.org/mrssmith121, I currently have a project for some odds and ends for our classroom, including lap desks for flexible seating. PS: If anyone has some fun chairs that they'd be willing to donate to our classroom for the rest of the year, let me know. We're happy to have more options!
WTW This Week
Hi! Here are your WTW words. Remember that four WTW menu items are due every Friday. Thank you!
Sunday, January 10, 2016
RAILS RALLY
We had a great week! We ended the week with a Rails Rally! We even did an all school call and response.
Every Rails Rally we recognize students for being respectful, responsible, kind, and engaged. Below are 3 of our 4 students!
Cora (Responsibility), Arogya (Engage), Haylee (Kindness) and Jakob (Respectful)
Wednesday, January 6, 2016
Henry's Freedom Box
This week we are reading Henry's Freedom Box. It is about a slave that mailed himself to freedom. Henry was in a box for 27 hours. The box was 3 feet, by 2 feet, by 2 feet. Under my desk is about that size. Students were given the opportunity to test it out. Since they are not adults, we needed a few adults to also test it out. Mr. Stordahl and myself went ahead. It was a very tight fit. I would not have liked to stay in there for as long as he did. We have learned that Henry's was very brave and courageous. He was also a very smart man. Feel free to ask your child more details about the story.
Pickles are Perfect Every Day
Today my husband kindly brought our class pickles on a stick for no reason. It was a wonderful random act of kindness. I love pickles no matter what day it is! Everyone was happy to pose for a pickle picture!
Monday, January 4, 2016
WTW This Week
Just a reminder that your child should do one spelling menu item each night. All four menu items are due on Friday to their WTW teacher. Thanks!
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