Short Week, FULL Week!

Hello  Friends! I have LOTS of updates and info for you today!

1.    We have received many classroom gifts this week! THANK YOU! We now have a few more learning games and centers, a new bean bag, a lamp, a custom/handmade bird house, a new teacher partner, and 2 BRAND NEW LAPTOP COMPUTERS!!!

      The RHAME Family Foundation (http://www.rhamefamilyfoundation.org/) generously awarded our class with two laptops for use in our centers and projects! All I had to do was write a little grant and VOILA! :)  We are so super lucky. I'll take them home this weekend and get them ready for use on Monday!

YAY!!

THANK YOU FOR THE BIRDHOUSE!! Created by Ernest W. Gaines for our class! 

3. Social Studies Projects are coming along nicely! We will begin teaching each other about our important historical figures next week. I will share my feedback with you on Curriculum Night!

Eleanor Roosevelt

Mary McLeod Bethune

Lyndon B Johnson

FDR

Paul Revere

Cesar Chavez

                                   

Susan B. Anthony



4.  Math Data Notebooks are complete! We have begun the process of evaluating ourselves, setting learning goals and tracking our own progress! 

 5. Our full time Teacher Partner has actually really truly arrived and we met her today! Her name is Dier Wu (DEAR WOO). She will be teaching some Mandarin Language and Chinese culture, calendar math and she will work with students in writing and reading conferences.

6. Our P.E. coach started this week, so the kids may be a little tired when they get home on Tuesdays and Thursdays.


It was a very full short week! I'll be posting more on reading assessments and Curriculum Night info.
Have a wonderful weekend!