Challenge For The Week

Trading Card

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Kids can go and create a trading card on something that they are an “expert” in. They may use Picaso, Flickr (if the picture is not copyright protected) or a photo that they have taken, or one taken by an adult. Unfortunately, they may not use a picture with the file extensions: .gif, .png, .btm It must be a: .jpg.

I have told them that they can either email me the trading card or print it out. If they do so, they will earn 10 tickets!

Healthy Leaders

Please vote for our class in the Del Monte Cash for Classroom contest.
If we win we will win a $1000 prize so we can host a taste off for the school and purchase some technology for our classroom! You can vote once per day and the awards will be given out each Monday for six weeks. Voting begins on Monday, September 26th. So vote, vote, vote!! THANK YOU!!

Contest details

Homework

Each week your child will bring home a weekly homework sheet. There will be an assignment due each day Tuesday-Friday. Each week the main homework topic will be the same however the activities will vary.

Everyday-Reading for 20 mins and recording on the reading log.
Monday- Spelling words written in the correct spelling patterns. Due on Tuesday.
Tuesday- Math worksheet or other math assignment. Due on Wednesday.
Wednesday- Spelling words-- written in a sentence. 8 sentences are required but extra practice with the rest of the spelling words is encouraged. Due on Thursday.
Thursday- Math worksheet or other math assignment. Due on Friday.
Every Friday--the reading log that has been kept all week is also due.

We are encouraging the students to keep track of their exercise as well. This data will be used some weeks for math, writing, and science activities. They can log their football practice time, dance practice, karate, riding bikes, etc.

The back of the homework page is set up as a place for your child to use to record his/her spelling homework for Monday and Wednesday nights. If additional paper is needed have your child attach it to the paper when bringing it back to school.
If you have any questions about homework, please let me know.

Classroom information

ROADRUNNER Folders:
Your child's take home folder is a multi purpose folder. This folder will house classroom information: class schedule, class list, and contact information. It also houses a pocket to hold the weekly homework and a pouch for notes and lunch money.

Classroom Rules:

1.     Feel free to do anything that does not cause a problem for yourself, others or the world. If you do, I’ll ask you to fix the problem. If you choose not to or can’t  I will do something about it.

2.     What I do will depend on  the special person and special situation.

3.     I will treat you with respect so you will know how to treat me.

Birthday Treats:
We will be participating in the Oliver Kids Team this year. Since we will be promoting healthy choices we will no longer allow sweet treats for Birthday Celebrations. Instead your child can choose a healthy snack to bring to share with their friends. Ideas for treats are...sugar free Jello packs, sugar free pudding packs, yogurt cups or gogurt (this can be frozen for a healthy icy treat), apples or other fruit with a fruit dip, etc. Thank you for helping the children make healthy choices!

We Are Bucket Fillers!!

We have learned about how to be bucket fillers. Bucket filling is a term that we use when we are talking about being kind and respectful to others. We read the book Have You Filled A Bucket Today? by Carol McCloud.

We also extended our lessons with the book How Full Is Your Bucket? for Kids by Tom Rath

I challenge the students to use the lessons we have learned from these two books each day in and out of school. We discussed how filling someone's bucket by being a good friend, daughter, son, student will also fill their own bucket. I can already tell you that your children are FABULOUS bucket fillers!!

This will be a daily practice throughout the year to make us better friends, classmates, students (and teachers), and citizens in our own community. Each Monday as the kids enter they will draw a classmate's name from our classroom bucket and that person will be your child's bucket buddy for the week. Each student will need to make sure that the person's name that was drawn has their bucket filled each day--by helping, using kind words, writing a bucket note for their personal bucket in the classroom, and just being a great friend!