I Adore Week Four!

This has been the best week yet! We are making massive strides! I am amazed by your learners! They are becoming scholars, studying math, words, and social skills with enthusiasm and bright eyes. We have given out more jobs and continued learning the ways of Editors, Authors, and Mathematicians. Here is just a bit of our wonderful week!
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We've got Brain Breaks coming out of our ears! Here are you silly dancers getting their wiggles out.
Barking Brain Breaks (click for video)

 We like to move it move it! (click)

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I can make the world a better place...

As we continue to grow as a community we are learning about ways to be good citizens within our classrooms, in our neighborhoods, and around the world. In an effort to increase our global awareness, we are learning about different needs around the world and how we can help! We have had rich discussion about feeding the hungry, giving shelter to orphans, speaking to the Japanese government about "unkind" hunting  of dolphins, and devising plans as to how to get water to Africa.  Just to name a few. 

One way we thought we could make the world a better place was by "painting" a mural, bringing art to our community. SO, in our hallway is our final product, our mural. Though it's been crafted with markers, tape, and paper, the message is still the same. Our mural depicts a puzzle piece world held together by things that we think are beautiful and or could make the world a better place. All around the world we stand, with our think bubbles floating with selfless ideas for how to make the world better. This class is truly full of love and compassion!

                                 

We started this project by getting a pep talk from Kid President. After we were all pumped up, we started to discuss ways we could make our community a better place through good citizenship. Then, we began expanding our thoughts after watching this video.

Then...We got busy!

 The artists + a few who left early.

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 Authors at work. We are breaking in our new primary notebooks!


This is how we plan.

 

 

We have all published our Fall writing! (picture to come) Come visit our hallway to have a nice informational read about Fall!

 

We like to use the white boards to practice making words.

We took a break from classroom learning to take our NWEA tests.

 

Our newest bit of excitement happens on Fridays! We get to vote for the following weeks Good Citizen of the week! Everyone votes for a friend who has been an excellent citizen of our community. All voters have to write who they are voting for and give a GOOD reason why they are voting for that person. This is a source of great excitement for everyone!

Probably one of the highlights of our week! Your kid's got a double dose of vegetables on this day! Mr. Kime brought me a nice and juicy green smoothie and your healthy eaters wanted to try some! They LOVED it! Mrs. Kime Shares Her Green Slime (Click for video)


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We have also been working on writing detailed sentences. We are turning aburrido (boring) sentences and making them into yummy picante (spicy) sentences with lots of detail and flavor!

 



In this video you can take a look at our learning style. We are currently learning how to be editors. We have editing tools and mixed up messages! This is a whole class lesson. The message was on the board first thing in the morning for the editors. They were instructed to copy the sloppy message and then edit it with their editing tool. THEN, as a class, we did this > Editors In Trianing (Click for video)