The 4th grade will be having their 1st Quarter Reward Party on Monday. We will be having a dodgeball tournament (pod #1 vs. pod #2) in the morning and then in the afternoon students get a choice of either a game room, craft room or a Just Dance on the Wii room. Students who are able to participate have shown they can be responsible, be respectful and be safe during the whole 1st quarter. Those who are allowed to go also have 75% of their tickets for the quarter. Those who do not have 75% of their tickets for the quarter do not get to participate as a consequence of losing too many tickets due to not completing assignments, bad choices/behavior, etc. and will be required to do their make-up work in another room.
Hello! Wow! What a week it has been. We have learned a lot and also perfected a lot of our routines! The kiddos have done a great job! We have learned all kinds of letters in our phonics lessons including n, o and t! We have learned about reading to someone and reading to self for our Daily 5 and also have learned about our expectations for 1st grade writing and 1st grade pictures for Writer's Workshop. In math we have learned about 5 groups and how to make numbers greater than 5 by making a 5 group and some more ones! We have also read lots of books about the alphabet and are becoming rock stars with our letters! I am so proud! We are doing FABULOUS in first grade! BUT... there are a few minor things we need to work on... 1. bathroom--our behavior in the bathroom hasn't been the greatest! We need to remember to use 1 pump of soap, 1 paper towel and that we go in, go to the bathroom and get out! 2. We also need to work on blurting out. We have RULE #2: Raise your h...