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Personality Portraits
Bell Photography will be here as we return from Spring Break on Monday, April 10th for Spring Personality Portraits. If you are interested in purchasing pictures you don’t have to do anything right now. Picture packages will be sent home later for you to review before you buy. But if you do not want to purchase pictures, please sign the flyer that came home with your student this week and return it. By signing the flyer your student will not have their picture taken and the picture packet will not be sent home. This is a free dress down day for these personality pictures. Thank you!
Behavior
We wanted to reach out to you as parents to have a conversation with your students about behavior expectations. The past few weeks the students have severely struggled with interrupting, blurting out during instructional time, and there are a large handful of students that are extremely disrespectful and distracting to the class with their behavior, and getting up out of their seats without permission. Now, please be aware, we are speaking to a large handful of students (not every student), but all students would benefit from a discussion about appropriate behavior.
We have had recent lessons on our mouths being volcanos, being interrupting chickens, and non-stop talkers and how when we behave like those, the whole class suffers. We have also implemented a Blurt Chart. This is similar to a stop light system where the students will earn a trip to the prize box weekly when their stop light colors are still intact. The students will also have the ability to earn lunch with us in the classroom every two weeks for keeping their stop lights in tact. Please ask your students about the Blurt Chart and the rewards they can earn. Ask your students to discuss the books we have been reading in class.
There have been 4-6 students that sadly have missed out on some really fun, engaging learning activities because they chose to not follow the classroom expectations. Two of these students are removed from our room for being disruptive to the rest of the class on an almost daily basis. If you could also explain to your students that behavior in the STEM Lab and with substitutes should be even better than is expected by both Mrs. Hill & Mrs. Nelson. Unfortunately, today Mrs. Jones, our STEM Lab teacher came and spoke with me after class and explained how sad the behavior was during her lesson this morning. We cannot stress enough the importance of learning by following behavior expectations.
Thank you in advance for speaking with your students and supporting your students to continue to grow into the successful students we know they are.
If you have any questions or concerns about your specific student, please don’t hesitate to contact us via email.
-Mrs. Nelson & Mrs. Hill
We have had recent lessons on our mouths being volcanos, being interrupting chickens, and non-stop talkers and how when we behave like those, the whole class suffers. We have also implemented a Blurt Chart. This is similar to a stop light system where the students will earn a trip to the prize box weekly when their stop light colors are still intact. The students will also have the ability to earn lunch with us in the classroom every two weeks for keeping their stop lights in tact. Please ask your students about the Blurt Chart and the rewards they can earn. Ask your students to discuss the books we have been reading in class.
There have been 4-6 students that sadly have missed out on some really fun, engaging learning activities because they chose to not follow the classroom expectations. Two of these students are removed from our room for being disruptive to the rest of the class on an almost daily basis. If you could also explain to your students that behavior in the STEM Lab and with substitutes should be even better than is expected by both Mrs. Hill & Mrs. Nelson. Unfortunately, today Mrs. Jones, our STEM Lab teacher came and spoke with me after class and explained how sad the behavior was during her lesson this morning. We cannot stress enough the importance of learning by following behavior expectations.
Thank you in advance for speaking with your students and supporting your students to continue to grow into the successful students we know they are.
If you have any questions or concerns about your specific student, please don’t hesitate to contact us via email.
-Mrs. Nelson & Mrs. Hill
Morning Fun Topic
For our morning routine today, we have been talking about being a caring community, and being respectful of everyone. Here is a fun little clip to view we used for this lesson:
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ANOTHER SHORT CLIP
CLICK HERE FOR FUN CLIP
ANOTHER SHORT CLIP
Homework 3/27-3/31
Homework this week is due on FRIDAY, March 31:
1- Math Homework: Please check your child’s answers for accuracy! There is no fluency time this week and will begin again after Spring Break.
1- Math Homework: Please check your child’s answers for accuracy! There is no fluency time this week and will begin again after Spring Break.
Worksheets: Please complete every other problem (alternate between evens and odds so your child gets practice doing story problems AND “Vocabulary Check”/ “Test Practice” problems each week). If your child wants to do every problem they are certainly free to do so! 🙂
Choose an activity to complete from these math-fact-activities.
**LANGUAGE ARTS HOMEWORK**
1- – Reading 20 minutes per day. Click here to record your weekly reading minutes: Library Reading Minutes Log.
3- Phonics and High Frequency Words Homework. Practice using any method of your choice to prepare for the weekly spelling test. Click here for some practice ideas: Spelling Study Activities
Phonics Words:
when
this
than
shed
chop
High Frequency Words:
use
long
said
Sentence:
The dish has a chip.
Creative Writing Prompt Video Clip
Our kids had so much fun with our last video clip writing prompt, I thought we would do it again on Monday. The kids will watch our short video clip and then tell their story. Click the below link to view the video clip:
CLICK ME!!! :o)
CLICK ME!!! :o)
Creative Clip for Writing Journal in class
We used the following short video clip for our writing prompt today in class. They kids loved it and were so engaged! They were very excited to finish the story. A lot of the students asked if they could share the video with their parents. If you want to watch it, click on the link below:
http://www.literacyshed.com/diving-giraffes.html
http://www.literacyshed.com/diving-giraffes.html
Prodigy at Home
Dear Parents,
This is a reminder that the Prodigy math offer to use at home is due tomorrow to the office. If you are interested in this amazing math program to use at home as well as your student being able to use in the classroom, please go to the below link, print the form and return with the payment by tomorrow to the office. This is a fantastic deal and the kids love it! Our almost 80% discounted rate for the whole year is $12 per student instead of the normal $60 per year.
Prodigy link:
Thanks so much for your amazing support with your students, we love that you share them with us each and every day.
-Mrs. Hill & Mrs. Nelson
Homework 3/20-3/24
Homework this week is due on FRIDAY, March 24:
1- Math Homework: Please check your child’s answers for accuracy!
1- Math Homework: Please check your child’s answers for accuracy!
Worksheets: Please complete every other problem (alternate between evens and odds so your child gets practice doing story problems AND “Vocabulary Check”/ “Test Practice” problems each week). If your child wants to do every problem they are certainly free to do so! 🙂
Choose an activity to complete from these math-fact-activities.
**LANGUAGE ARTS HOMEWORK**
1- Daily Reading Fluency (available in the Blue Homework folders on Mondays). Please complete both sides of the Leveled Daily Reading Fluency assignment.
2- Reading 20 minutes per day. Click here to record your weekly reading minutes: Library Reading Minutes Log.
3- Phonics and High Frequency Words Homework. Practice using any method of your choice to prepare for the weekly spelling test. Click here for some practice ideas: Spelling Study Activities
Phonics Words:
test
find
ramp
risk
bent
High Frequency Words:
here
where
have
Sentence:
The land was vast.
Everyone Needs A Badge
Dear Parents and Students,
Our lunch staff is implementing a new program beginning tomorrow where every student will need to have a current badge with a special, unique barcode label on the back.
We have done an inventory of students that have and do not have their badges. If your student’s name is listed under “No Badge”, you will need to purchase a replacement badge for $5 with the office first thing Monday morning and have a new badge printed so that we can attach the new barcode label before lunch.
Thank you in advance for taking care of this promptly Monday morning.
We appreciate your assistance,
Mrs. Nelson & Mrs. Hill
NEEDS NEW BADGE
Connor
Liberty
Kannon
Joseph
Claire
Abbey
Hannah
Lincoln
Kiya
Caige
Keaton
NEEDS NEW BADGE
Connor
Liberty
Kannon
Joseph
Claire
Abbey
Hannah
Lincoln
Kiya
Caige
Keaton