Wow what a day of technology ups and downs we had on Friday. We attempted to meet our pen pals in Virginia Friday afternoon. We had a great visual but the sound came and went. Unfortunately we couldn't quite have the discussion we wanted to. However, on the upside each child did get to meet his/her pen pal as well as see Mrs. Huffman. I wish you could have heard the oxygen leave the room when she walked into our pen pals' classroom. I felt like the class just ran into Justin Bieber based on the oohs, aahhs, and hyper activity. She sent me an e-mail stating how great it was to see everyone and how grown up they looked as well as how much she appreciated the very enthusiastic greeting. It is definitely obvious to our pen pals how much she is still loved in Georgia! Hopefully we'll get the kinks worked out and try again soon.
We have been working on how to revise writing with Mrs. Kantor for the past few weeks. I was so impressed with the class today. Everyone did their own revisions on a boring story about going to the dentist. The changes made were very clever, and filled with great word choice. Our main focus has been to "spice up" the writing by adding vivid verbs and amazing adjectives, as well as at least one simile. We also want the students to take generic writing and make it more specific. Please encourage these skills at home as well.
Wow! I am impressed with how many constellation projects came in this morning. What busy little bees we had this weekend! Please hold on to the projects at home until the due date of January 30th. Please turn in the rubric along with the project as this will help save a few trees and the copy parent's time. :)
Just a reminder that diamond poems are due tomorrow (1/24). We will use the author's chair to share our winter themed poetry this week. I truly cannot wait to hear and see everyone's poems. Please have your child practice reading the poem out loud before sharing it with the class. This will help with the presentation.
We have High Touch High Tech on Tuesday morning this week. Our time falls during specials, so we will not be going this day. Please have your child wear his/her green class t-shirt.
This nine weeks we are learning how to graph in the computer lab. The past two weeks we have used the program, Graph Club. After mastering this program each child will learn to graph with the program, Excel. Hopefully we will all master Excel, as well.
I am sad to report that we lost our trophy for First In Math to Mrs. Schmitter's class. Let's work extra hard to earn it back. Please continue to play a few nights a week.
