Our Class is Connected with Kindness :)

Here is our second student who was chosen to receive our kindness award for the week!

Character Education

Today, we started a new character education tradition for our classroom family.  We choose one of our students and she stood in front of the white board and everyone in our class wrote something nice about her. 

Here is what our class said - we certainly agree! 

Always nice to others

Always positive

Sweetest girl in CCE

Astonishing kindness

Always positive – never gives up

Stops bullying

A nice friend in the whole school

Always sweet and kind to others

Never mean

Queen of the world

Let’s everyone play

Helpful

Fair to others

Always has something good to say

Best girl in the world

Kind

Polite and helpful

Helps others and is kind and sweet

Very good role model

Kind heart and sweet girl

Nice friend to everyone

 

 

Salt in His Shoes

This week we are reading books with common themes to help motivate us for the big FCAT! Today we read Salt in His Shoes, a story about a young Michael Jordan, who is smaller than the other players, learns that determination and hard work are more important than size when playing the game of basketball.We know that our hard work throughout this school year will help us be successful on the test!We are ready to ROCK the FCAT!

Using Mentor Texts to Create Powerful Introductions

Today we researched mentor texts and specifically looked at the introductions these authors wrote. We read the introductions with an extra powerful lens to notice how they were written. We then discussed what kinds of things the authors did to create their powerful introductions. We learned many new ways to write engaging introductions for our informational books and chapters as well!

Lucky Charms Fractions and Graphing

In honor of St.Patrick's Day, we used Lucky Charms to sort out the marshmallows and make fractions and a bar graph out of them. The denominator was the total amount of marshmallows each student had and the numerator was the number of each different marshmallows they had. We then compared our graphs.

Teaching like an Expert

Today we began our writing on information books. We learned that information writers are teachers. When you write an information book, you are teaching about your topic. Today, students got to teach their peers about their topic that they are an expert on. We learned some really interesting and neat things about each others' topics!

Attitude Spray

Have you heard about our Attitude Spray?? It is a special secret "potion" that only students who believe will receive! We use this "potion" to help us have a good attitude before we take our tests. We learned that attitude is everything and if you have a good attitude before your test, you will work harder and try your best on the test!! Ask your child if they chose to receive this "potion" before their reading test today. :)