Parent Teacher Times for Tomorrow

Hi Everyone!!

The following sheet was sent home with the students today. We did the best we could to accommodate the times everyone requested. If your child is not listed in a time slot then we did not receive the form back from your child. If you were unable to send in the form and would still like to come tomorrow, please select one of the time slots and leave a comment on the blog to let us know when you'll be here! We are truly excited to meet with everyone and hope ALL parents are able to make it!

Best wishes,

Mrs. Esperon and Ms. Voigt

November 13th, 2013

Dear Parents and Guardians,

Tomorrow, Thursday, November 14th, are our Parent/Teacher Meetings!  We are very excited to meet you all and to finally have the chance to sit down and talk about your child.  School will be dismissed at 11:45pm on Thursday and we would like to welcome you to our classroom between the hours of 1:00 and 8:00pm.  We would like to schedule 10-minute increments between 1:00-3:00 and 5:30-8:00.

Thank you so much!  

Mrs. Esperon and Ms. Voigt

1:00   Aaliyah

1:10   Jenaya

1:20   Jaden

1:30   Anthony

1:40   Carlos

1:50  Ashlee R.

2:00  Shaniya

2:10  Kavon

2:20 Ashley H.

2:30__________________________________________________

2:40__________________________________________________

2:50  Yamil

5:30__________________________________________________

5:40  Mia

5:50__________________________________________________

6:00  Bryan

6:10__________________________________________________

6:20__________________________________________________

6:30____________________________________________________

6:40____________________________________________________

6:50  Matthew R.

7:00____________________________________________________

7:10____________________________________________________

7:20____________________________________________________

7:30____________________________________________________

7:40_____________________________________________________

7:50_____________________________________________________

Jiji Math is here!

We've started to visit the Jiji penguin again. Please ask your child what he/she is learning in their Jiji math session. 

Jiji is the penguin that guides students through visual math activities. It's a great source math to compliment our math classroom instruction.


Students: What did you learn in Jiji today?
Please leave us a comment and let us know. 

Scholastic Book Orders

We have an account on Scholastic. You can order books directly on the website. It's great, easy and fast. So please take a look and add to your home library.

Class activation code: JDDXT

https://orders.scholastic.com/JDDXT

Try a new reading website!

wegivebooks.org

Today we shared a new website with the class. wegivebooks.org is a FREE website that gives students access to books online, no downloading needed. Students can pick a nonfiction or fiction book to read. 

Jaden asked if he could use this book to log in for his reading log. The answer is of course!

Friday Dance with Ms. Pia

We lined up to work collaboratively in our lines.

We pranced across the stage!

We tried to prance to the beat of the music!

Dance Fridays

Today in dance we practiced our focus. Before that we reviewed our vocabulary list. Please review the words. 

Students, please write what you think each word means in the comment section. 

Class discussion are important in class3.211!

Students discuss the quote "Practice what you preach!" 

Latoya- Practice what you are going to say?

Bryan- When you practice what you are saying.

Carlos- Maybe it has to do with you volume?

Nelson- So you do something and you tell other people to do the opposite?

Nikaiyah- IF you want me to do my work, you'll do your work.

Rain School told as a Sound Story

Students loved using instruments from around the world during our reading of Rain School.

Our Goals for this Blog

Our Goals

1. We would like parents to have a window into our classroom. We want everyone to see the wonderful things that are happening in our classroom and in our school.

2. We would like students, families and friends to comment on our blog. We love comments and so do the students.

We want to make papier mache Globes!

Please visit this website. 

We'd like to do a similar project in our classroom. 

http://spoonful.com/crafts/papier-mache-globe

Ms. Voigt shares pictures from Uganda

Dance Fridays

Warm Up

Stretching 

Practicing dance moves

Dance Community Guidelines

In dance, we've agreed on Community Guidelines to help us have a successful dance class. 

Reading Time in room 211

Good readers have a reaction to the text on the page.  

Jason is laughing at the silly book. 

Good readers push themselves to read a page a minute. 

Matthew is pushing himself to read 15 pages in 15 minutes. 

New Spelling Website

Great News! 

Mr. Melendez just shared with us a great website to help us with spelling. 

 http://www.spellingcity.com/EsperonVoigt/

We entered this weeks words. 



Leave us a comment and let us know what you think of this website. 

Partnerships

Yamil wrote 5 rules for partnerships. 
Today, we met our new partners for reading work. 

Partners are students who work together, talk together and share academic work in order to get better. 

Students were asked to write 5 rules for good partnerships. 

Dance Vocabulary

1. stage left 

2. stage right

3. counter clockwise

4. clockwise

New words 

diagonal 

backward

sideways (right and left)

Improvisation 

Dance Fridays with The Mark DeGarmo Dance Company

Creating rules with Ms. Pia

We will have dance for 20 weeks. Ms. Pia is our wonderful dance teacher. 

This year our students will learn and create dances. They will also learn dance vocabulary to help them share their dance experiences.

Please ask your child what they have learned in dance this week. 

Please visit the website for more information.

http://markdegarmoarts.org/

Class Dojo Incentives!

Last week we created an 'incentive chart' with different rewards for our hard-earned points.  The students were excited to be part of the decision process when picking their specific rewards and it was a joy to watch everyone work toward these fun choices!  On 

Fridays we will be rewarding every student for his or her excellent achievements based on the chart below. 

Our Read Aloud

We are so excited to be reading
 The Witches by Roald Dahl. 

Class Expectations

Classroom Expectations

1. Listen to the person who is speaking.

2. Respect the space of others.

3. Be thoughtful of others.

4. Contribute and Participate.

5. Come prepared to class. 

Snacks!

Last year, our entire school was fortunate enough to receive healthy snacks every day through a special grant.  It was great. Students were able to fuel up on fruits (strawberries, grapes, apples, etc.) and vegetables (tomatoes, carrots, etc.). 

This year, our school has applied to this same grant. Today, September 30th, we received snacks through this grant again! 

We are excited. Today's snacks were pineapples and carrots. 

We know that everyone focuses better when they're able to have a healthy snack. It's hard to stay focused for 4 hours straight without eating. We'll be enjoying snack around 10:30 A.M. every morning. 

Classdojo

Classdojo.com is an online behavior management system. Students are given points for positive behaviors such as doing homework and participating in class. Points are taken away for calling out, missing homework, etc. 

At the end of the week, parents will receive a report via email. If an account has not been established on the website, we will send home a paper copy on Friday. 

We recently discussed ways to use classdojo points in class. The students discussed possible incentives that they will be able to obtain using points they have earned in class. 

We will post the options this week. 

classdojo.com

Homework

Students will have homework everyday. 

The homework is to help them practice work we have done in class. 

Reading 

At this point in the year, students are expected to read for at least 20 minutes and log in everyday (including Saturday and Sunday). 

Math 

Math homework is usually in the form of a worksheet. The sheet is identical to the work given in class during the day. Students should be able to do this work independently. 

Poetry 

Each student has a yellow composition notebook. This notebook contains poems that we have read and discussed in class. We would like students to practice reading poem a night to an adult. 

Please sign and date the poem that was read and we will give credit for the homework. Unsigned work will be considered as "no homework."

Word Study

Word work homework is done every night as follows:

Monday- 5 times each

Tuesday- Use each spelling word in a sentence. 

Wednesday - Triangle words 

Thursday-  abc order 

Friday- Take home spelling test and have it signed by an adult. Write any word misspelled 5 times each. 

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