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.