Meeting Mrs. White

Today we had the chance to meet with Mrs. White's class.  Mrs. White gave us directions on a tic-tac-toe activity to do together in partners.

We used Habit 6:  Synergize.  We worked together to accomplish our tasks.

Sissie and partner helped each other when they got stuck.

Alexia was named our new webmaster.  She will begin working on these blogs in the days to come.

The Hundred Dresses

In Writer's Workshop we have been discussing the 7 Habits and elements of narratives through reading The Hundred Dresses.  While reading the book Mrs. Welch is modeling for the students how good readers ask questions and make connections to what they're reading.

Our Second Day

We spent a lot of time today discussing Habit 2:  Begin with the End in Mind.  As a class we did an exercise where we looked at what was important about our reputation and what we wanted to be able to say about our class at the end of the year.  Our class created the following class mission statement:

•We are a class of friends.  We model Eagle PRIDE and the 7 Habits by being kind and helping each other, encouraging and lifting each other up, are respectful of each other, do our best EVERY day, and have FUN!  Mrs. Welch inspires us to believe in ourselves.

 

We placed a copy of this in our agendas to remind us of our class mission.

Exciting First Day

Today we took a tour around the room, discussed our routines and procedures, discussed our behaviors and The 7 Habits, and began discussing our class mission.  The question students were left with today is:  What do we want to be able to say about our class on the last day of school?  (Habit 2:  Begin with the End in Mind)  Students have been asked to write a phrase, statement, or sentence (or two) about what they want our class mission to be.  Tomorrow we're going to write our class mission.

We're looking forward to an exciting year together!  What a wonderful start we had to our year! :)

Open House a Success!

It was such a pleasure meeting all of our families last night!  We had an amazing turn out.  Check out our third grade team.

              Mrs. White, Mrs. Welch, Mrs. Friend, and Mrs. Copher

Something quite special and unique is that after this year I will have taught all of Mrs. Martinez's children.  Below is a picture of all of us. 

I look forward to seeing you all on Monday!  Have a restful weekend!  I'm SOOOOOOO excited!

Technology Conference a Success!

Hall County Technology Conference a Success!

Mrs. McDaniel and I were able to share some ideas on how to podcast lessons. We will be sharing many podcasts of what we're up to here on this blog and teacher webpage. 

Mrs. Coker and I were able to share with other teachers how they could start a program like Soarin' at their school.  We had many teachers comment that they'd like to do the same for their kids. 

On Thursday we had a few students share what they've done in Soarin'.  Dr. Rayburn even stopped by!

Mrs. Coker and I are excited to continue this program again this coming school year.  If you're interested, please see us.

Anticipating Olympian Athletes

Yesterday I got super excited as I was given a list of our Olympian Athletes.  It seems like our Open House (August 4, 2011 from 4-7pm) is so far away, yet very close.  I cannot wait to meet each and every one of our talented athletes and fans (family). 

Please begin thinking about all of the fun adventures you have had this summer and what you’d like to share with us.  We would love to hear what fun things you were able to do with friends and family members over the summer.  My hope is for us all to share at least one fun adventure we had on the first day of school (August 8, 2011).