An Inspiration provided by TESPTO

Thank you TESPTO! We learned so much from K Rob.

Thank you TESPTO! We learned so much from K Rob. Below are some of the things students wrote in their journals.

He didn't care about Medals. All he cared about was the feeling of when he completed his goal.

Believe and Achieve means to believe in yourself and achieve means that you can do it.

He jumped over four teachers. It was as fun as going down a water slide all day!

He got bullied but that never stopped him.

K Rob inspired me.

Today, we saw a BMX Bike Rider at school. He talked about kindness and he said, don't be mean to other people.

He talked about how he was bullied. Twenty years later, that same bully asked Kevin for something. He said yes because he wanted the bully to remember him as a good person. 

K Rob took risks and he tried his best.

He taught us about balance.

He taught us TRICK. Teamwork, Respect, Inspire, Confidence, and Kindness. 

We can all do TRICKs!

Growing Together

Thank you for attending Parent Night. I look forward to working with you throughout the year. Please remember that I am only an email away.
How have we grown so far?
The children are becoming familiar with the day to day procedures and they are developing good habits. 
We are rounding, using mental math strategies and working to increase our understanding of numbers and how we can take them apart to make adding and subtracting mentally easier.
Our reading stamina is increasing. We can read independently and to a partner for more than 15 minutes without getting distracted. We are working on leaving, "thinking tracks" in our books. We can use sticky notes, mark up passages and fill out organizers like the one that is for homework this week.  The more children write and share their thinking about the stories they read the more they gain from the reading. In class we are using the phrase, "Reading is breathing in and writing is breathing out."  We are working on writing things that are close to our hearts. We will continue to work on personal narratives for the month of October. We love sharing our stories because sharing brings us closer together as a team.
In science we are "growing" pinto beans and using variables to see what helps them to grow best. We are also learning about classifying plants. We will be learning about photosynthesis, plant reproduction, the importance of each part of the plant and more.
We have been 

Week Two is Through

What did Team Jordan do in week two?
ELA-We continue to work on building stamina in reading and writing. We reviewed the writing process.
We used the laptops and set up google accounts. We will be using google to publish our writing this year.
We are studying sentences to learn about grammar and the power of word choice.
Math- We are wrapping up the first chapter which is all about number sense and place value. The test will take place on Tuesday.
Science- We are learning about plants. We are piloting a new Science program- a letter went home this week about with important vocabulary.


I look forward to seeing you all on Thursday evening for Parent Seminar at 6pm in room 214. Have a wonderful weekend!

 

First Week Findings

We learned...
the cursive letter l
how to pick a just right book
how to work as a team
stems, leaves, roots are all important parts of plants
thousand, hundreds, tens, ones-Place Value
Standard form, word form
Express means write or show
Comprehension means to understand what you are reading.
the teachers are nice
Kindness Pledge
About Bio poems
We have a sports and team theme
about mentor sentences
EEKK -Partner Reading
we have important jobs
 how turn and talk
patterns
we earn baseballs for compliments
building stamina is important
We made our class rules and we all signed a contract.
1. We will not stop teachers from teaching. 2. We will not stop students from learning. 3.We will have fun!
This week we all followed the rules!
Thank you families for sending in all important forms and for sharing your amazing children with us!