Our First Olympian of the Week

On Friday we nominated students we felt deserved to be the Olympian of the Week.  Nathan received 5 nominations for Olympian of the Week.  His peers described him as a model of Eagle PRIDE and the 7 Habits.  He is respectful of his peers, adults, and him self.  He is certainly a fine, young man.  We are all proud of him!

Olympic Ceremony

Today we had our Opening Olympic Ceremony.  We marched around with our flags to music,

learned about the five virtues for the rings,

and synergized.

In Science, we shared our powerpoint slides on our chosen property of a rock/mineral.

Also, Riley and Nathan shared their rocks with us.

It has been an AWESOME first week!  We're excited about next week as well.

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!