It was nice to get away for a week. Hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving. I am hoping all the parents in my class read this blog this week. If you noticed in your Friday envelope, I asked permission for your student to watch Pay It Forward during SoEmo next week. Please give your reply by making a comment to this blog. I am just curious how many people actually read the blogs because I haven't had many comments about it. This is the best way for you to find out what we are doing in class each week.
We had a very fun and busy week. I have been starting each day with a short video clip at the beginning of SoEmo. This seems to be a good way to get all of the kids to class on time in the morning! We have been relearning the 8 to Great Highways. I spent this week talking about highway 1: Get the Picture. We talked about what we could do to change the world and what we would do if today was our last day. If you have a chance, listen to a great song by Nickleback called If Today Was Your Last Day.
In Language Arts, we started editing each others' book reflections. After the edits they will be rewriting them. We also have the privilege of being in charge of the school newsletter. We took over the position this week. The kids are pretty confident that they will have December's edition out on Friday before the Holiday Break.
We have three new students trying out our Algebra class. We are growing! Does that mean we are getting smarter by the day?
Science and History are moving fast and furious. The students are staying very busy as they finish all of their assignments. I am impressed with how they have buckled down and are getting their work completed. It is so fun to see how creative they are.
PE has been awesome! We had the unfortunate incident of not getting the skateboard park for the month due to Toys For Tots, but most kids took it in stride. I am in the swimming class and fortunately the water is warm! The other classes available are basketball, gym and rock climbing. Students were given the choice where they want to go for PE. We had so much fun on Wednesday at the ice rink. FYI: ICE SKATING will happen again for the next two Wednesdays, so make sure kids have jackets and socks.
A funny thing happened yesterday as I was passing out the school pictures. I accidently called our class photo our family picture! I am grateful to be a teacher at Innovations Academy and love that I feel that it is my home. Have a wonderful weekend!
Friday, December 5, 2008
Sunday, November 23, 2008
Have a Happy Thanksgiving
Hello families,
I want to start out by telling you how great this past week was. It started out awesome and got better each day. I truly believe I have one of the best homeroom classes at Innovations Academy. What a privilege it is to spend my days with them. We have 3 new middle school students who started in the past week and a half: Catalina, Sebastian and Brianna. If you haven't checked out the comment from last weeks blog, do so. It really brought a smile to my face.
Thank you to all parents and students who came for conference this past week. If you still have not met with me, please make arrangements to do so...its not too late! I had a very positive experience hearing what is working and what is not working for our students. I found there are things that I will be changing as well as many things that are working brilliantly.
Upcoming events to be aware of:
No school this week HAPPY THANKSGIVING!
I want to start out by telling you how great this past week was. It started out awesome and got better each day. I truly believe I have one of the best homeroom classes at Innovations Academy. What a privilege it is to spend my days with them. We have 3 new middle school students who started in the past week and a half: Catalina, Sebastian and Brianna. If you haven't checked out the comment from last weeks blog, do so. It really brought a smile to my face.
Thank you to all parents and students who came for conference this past week. If you still have not met with me, please make arrangements to do so...its not too late! I had a very positive experience hearing what is working and what is not working for our students. I found there are things that I will be changing as well as many things that are working brilliantly.
Upcoming events to be aware of:
No school this week HAPPY THANKSGIVING!
- No school next week.
- No school Monday Dec. 1 Teacher In-Service Day
- Mandatory Parent Inservice Meeting: (Come to one meeting only) Dec 1: 7-8pm in Community Room, or Thursday Dec 4: 7-8 pm in Multipurpose Room
- Winter Break Dec. 22 - Jan. 2
- No school Monday Jan. 5 Teacher In-Service Day
This past week in SoEmo, I asked the kids what they expected of themselves and what they thought others expected of them. After sharing, I asked what they thought I expected of them. I told them I have high expectations that can only be summed up in two words: BE AMAZING!Just so you know, I believe many of them are taking the challenge! In Language Arts we wrapped up with 2 tests covering literary terms and grammar. A few more students mastered the lit terms and will not need to take the test again! Please remember Reflection #2 is DUE TUESDAY DEC. 2. Remember to include a title page and an illustration. We are almost finished with chapter 3 in Algebra. Students were quizzed on 3-1 to 3-5 on Friday. I enjoyed having students teach the lessons and will do it again for chapter 4. In science we continued to work on our Periodic Table of the Elements. Our wall looks really cool. If your student has not picked their scientist for our Dec 18 Wax Museum please work with them over the break to get one picked out along with an activity or experiment that the scientist is famous for. Sounds like the kids are getting a lot of work done in Bill's class for their history projects. I am impressed with the maps and timelines that have been turned in. New PE classes start Tuesday Dec 2. I am teaching swimming. Your students were given a choice as to what PE class they wanted to go to: swimming, basketball, rock climbing, skateboarding. If they chose swimming, I sent them home with a notice to remind them to bring a bathing suit(no cotton t-shirts please. Only swimsuit material, rash guards, board shorts allowed), and towel on Tuesday.
Have a very Happy Thanksgiving. Enjoy the time off with your families and I look forward to seeing everyone in a week.
Look for an update next Sunday with reminders and anything new.
Sunday, November 16, 2008
Talk about a wacky week!
After having a holiday on Tuesday, then a short day on Wednesday, we didn't really get into our groove until Thursday... and then it was the weekend again! Did we accomplish anything? Believe it or not, we did!
Important dates to remember:
Important dates to remember:
- Wednesday Nov 19 and Thursday Nov 20 are conference days. School will end both days at 1:00 and conferences will be held from 1:00-4:00. If you have not already done so, please schedule a time to meet with me.
- Next week is Thanksgiving break. There is no school all week.
- Monday December 1 is no school for students. Teacher professional growth day.
- Monday December 1 Parent Involvement Meeting 7:00pm location TBA
This past week in SoEmo, we talked about building others up. Danielle came into our class on Thursday and talked about the importance of our words. Don't let things come out of our mouths unless they lift others up. We talked about how often we use language that is degrading and negative in our speech. Imagine a world where people speak only in the positive!
In Language Arts, we spent the majority of the week working on parts of sentences such as subjects and predicates. We will spend the next week continuing grammar and working on our 2nd reading reflection. There will be a test on Parts of Sentences on Friday. We will also be having a retake of the Literary Terms test on Friday. As stated in last week's blog, I will continue to provide retakes on this test until everyone in the class has mastered the lit terms. Once students have mastered it, they do not have to take the test again. Our second reflection that was originally due Friday has been postponed until Tuesday, December 2.
In Algebra, I got to sit back and relax...well, sort of... The students took charge of the class and taught the math lessons. A few more students will be teaching Monday and Tuesday. So far they have done an awesome job. I can tell that not only the students, but the "teachers" learned something this week! We will have a quiz on Chapter 3 sections 3-1 thru 3-5 on Friday.
Science is going great. We are still in the process of creating a humongous periodic table on our wall. Each student has a "pet element". We started a side project on Wednesdays which will involve a Scientist Wax Museum. The students are learning about a scientist of their choice and will be displaying themselves as their "live" scientist along with an experiment or activity the scientist was involved in. Our entire school will tour our wax museum in December.
The kids are having fun in Bill's history class and are in the process of creating a historical timeline.
PE will be making drastic changes after Thanksgiving. Stay tuned for more info as I get it.
Have a great week!
Saturday, November 8, 2008
Month in review
OK. So it looks like I need to work on being a better blogger! We have been busy this past month and I apologize for not keeping you in the loop.
Important Announcement: Every Friday(Thursday for my 3-day students) students are sent home with a yellow envelope. This envelope contains classwork, important papers that need to come back to school, announcements, etc. We have been doing this now for a few weeks and I am having trouble getting the envelopes back to refill the next week. Please look for these envelopes every Friday, empty them out or sign what needs to be returned, and return the envelopes every Monday(Tues for 3-day). Please help your students to get in the habit of bringing them back to school!
Thank You: To our wonderful room parents, Sondra, Claire and Vicky for the great job they are doing. If it wasn't for them, our fabulous Halloween party would have been a bore. The kids had so much fun especially with the mummy wrap and the pizza party. Thank you to parents who have been bringing in snacks and water for the class. Last but not least, thanks to Vicky, Naomi and Coleman for chaperoning the Grossology field trip at the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center.
During SoEmo this month we covered highways 5-8: Honest Communication, Forgiveness, Gratitude and Hope. Marcelline Broglie, our compassionate communications expert has also come to our class to talk about communicating with empathy. We are basically learning how to speak a new language in order to communicate our needs and feelings.
Language Arts is moving smoothly. The Jeremy Fink reflections were the main focus of the month. Students learned how to organize and write a typical five paragraph essay focusing on an introduction with a strong thesis, supporting examples and a thought provoking conclusion. We have been working on 39 literary terms and had a test on the terms last week. Students will be retested on the terms every few weeks until they have been mastered. So far, 3 students have already mastered them and won't have to take the test again!
In Algebra we finished chapters 1 and 2 this past month. We learned about integers, different types of graphs and functions. Most of the students are feeling the challenge of algebra! Next week I am putting the math into their hands as they plan, prepare, and teach the lessons to the class.
Our project time has been fun. We finished our nutrition project a week ago. Throughout the month students did group presentations on the digestive system, learned about the necessities of life, eating and burning calories and created 3D edible animal cells out of jello and yummy treats. Our service part of the project is a school wide "Running Club". This is a club where students can run laps at lunchtime on the field, collect sticks for each lap and collect foot charms for every ten miles. It won't start until after Thanksgiving due to the field closure this month for reseeding. We had a final test last week. Look for the results in next weeks yellow envelope.
Our new science project is called "It's ELEMENTary My Dear Watson." So far we learned about atoms, elements and compounds. We had a fun hands on experience making human atoms using balloons. The kids are making a giant periodic table where each student has a "pet element." During Mad Science this past Friday, students learned about molecules and made compounds. The favorite was the putty made from glue and sodium borate.
Bill is teaching the history projects and the kids are enjoying going to his class during that time. Check his blog for more information.
Don't forget! Tuesday is a holiday. Do not come to school!
Important Announcement: Every Friday(Thursday for my 3-day students) students are sent home with a yellow envelope. This envelope contains classwork, important papers that need to come back to school, announcements, etc. We have been doing this now for a few weeks and I am having trouble getting the envelopes back to refill the next week. Please look for these envelopes every Friday, empty them out or sign what needs to be returned, and return the envelopes every Monday(Tues for 3-day). Please help your students to get in the habit of bringing them back to school!
Thank You: To our wonderful room parents, Sondra, Claire and Vicky for the great job they are doing. If it wasn't for them, our fabulous Halloween party would have been a bore. The kids had so much fun especially with the mummy wrap and the pizza party. Thank you to parents who have been bringing in snacks and water for the class. Last but not least, thanks to Vicky, Naomi and Coleman for chaperoning the Grossology field trip at the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center.
During SoEmo this month we covered highways 5-8: Honest Communication, Forgiveness, Gratitude and Hope. Marcelline Broglie, our compassionate communications expert has also come to our class to talk about communicating with empathy. We are basically learning how to speak a new language in order to communicate our needs and feelings.
Language Arts is moving smoothly. The Jeremy Fink reflections were the main focus of the month. Students learned how to organize and write a typical five paragraph essay focusing on an introduction with a strong thesis, supporting examples and a thought provoking conclusion. We have been working on 39 literary terms and had a test on the terms last week. Students will be retested on the terms every few weeks until they have been mastered. So far, 3 students have already mastered them and won't have to take the test again!
In Algebra we finished chapters 1 and 2 this past month. We learned about integers, different types of graphs and functions. Most of the students are feeling the challenge of algebra! Next week I am putting the math into their hands as they plan, prepare, and teach the lessons to the class.
Our project time has been fun. We finished our nutrition project a week ago. Throughout the month students did group presentations on the digestive system, learned about the necessities of life, eating and burning calories and created 3D edible animal cells out of jello and yummy treats. Our service part of the project is a school wide "Running Club". This is a club where students can run laps at lunchtime on the field, collect sticks for each lap and collect foot charms for every ten miles. It won't start until after Thanksgiving due to the field closure this month for reseeding. We had a final test last week. Look for the results in next weeks yellow envelope.
Our new science project is called "It's ELEMENTary My Dear Watson." So far we learned about atoms, elements and compounds. We had a fun hands on experience making human atoms using balloons. The kids are making a giant periodic table where each student has a "pet element." During Mad Science this past Friday, students learned about molecules and made compounds. The favorite was the putty made from glue and sodium borate.
Bill is teaching the history projects and the kids are enjoying going to his class during that time. Check his blog for more information.
Don't forget! Tuesday is a holiday. Do not come to school!
Sunday, September 28, 2008
The Week in Review and Whats Coming
Hope your weekend was relaxing! I admit that my goal to write comments at the end of the week and then again at the beginning of the week was too lofty for me. My apologies to those of you who expected a blog update on Friday. I am going to stick with once a week and see if I am any better!
Last week started feeling more like "school" is supposed to feel. I don't think I mentioned this before, but if your kids come home talking about So Emo, they are talking about our social emotional curriculum. This week in So Emo we talked about 8 to Great Highway 4: Feel All Your Feelings. This was a touchy subject for some since so often in our society we are told to suppress our feelings. I learned so much about my class this week and have so much empathy for the many things they are going through not only in the classroom but outside in the real world. I am grateful for the opportunity to be a mentor to them and provide a safe place for them for seven hours every day. Ask your son or daughter about Giraffe Language!!
Our language and math classes are going great. If your student is not in my class for either of those subjects and you would like to contact their teacher, please let me know. In my language class this week we have been reading Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life by Wendy Mass. The first line of the book begins... "My sweat smells like peanut butter." Obviously with a line like that, the kids were immediately engaged! We spent the week learning how to spot information while reading, listing character traits, and recapping what we read. Students were given tools on how to organize information using Venn diagrams and they wrote compare and contrast paragraphs about two of the main characters, Jeremy and Lizzy.
My math class still included the prealgebra, algebra and adv. algebra kids. We spent the week reviewing addition, subtraction, multiplication and division of integers (positive and negative numbers) and learned about real numbers, rational and irrational numbers. On Monday the pre-algebra kids will officially start Direct Instruction with Christine. The algebra class will stay with me. Be ready to move fast! We have a lot to learn!
Our website project went on the back burner last week as I realized the snail pace we were going with it wouldn't change until we have computers in our room. As soon as this happens, we will continue the project. We are still working on the Rome vs US history project. Last week we compared Rome's downfall with some of the things happening in the United States today. This week we will work on creating a perfect world. We also started a nutrition science/math project. Part 1 of this project involves writing down what you eat for seven days. I sent the students home with a packet on Thursday that includes 7 counting calories logs to be filled out each day for everything they eat. Please remind your student to fill these out as their information is vital to completing the project. Last week we learned how all food, whether it is sugar, fat or protein gets stored as fat cells if it is not used up. This week we will investigate hands on what a cell looks like and how food travels to all of our body parts.
A quick thank you to Julian's mom who stepped in and is teaching an amazing cultural dance class as one of the Friday Experts. Those who got to experience it had a great time. Once you get to know me you will find I am quite clutzy. I now know how to fall with grace! Anyone else still sore from crab walking?
Along with their nutrition packets, I sent home another important paper that I hope your student showed you. If this isn't timely enough, it is an announcement of our schoolwide junk food policy. I personally have noticed a difference in the energy level of kids in my class who had sodas and sugary foods for breakfast and lunch. Please send your kids to school with healthy food and snacks. Sodas and candy in my class will be confiscated until after school.
Last but not least... I am looking for a room parent or two for our class. An email is going out this week with the specifics. If you are available I would truly appreciate it.
Looking forward to another great week!
Last week started feeling more like "school" is supposed to feel. I don't think I mentioned this before, but if your kids come home talking about So Emo, they are talking about our social emotional curriculum. This week in So Emo we talked about 8 to Great Highway 4: Feel All Your Feelings. This was a touchy subject for some since so often in our society we are told to suppress our feelings. I learned so much about my class this week and have so much empathy for the many things they are going through not only in the classroom but outside in the real world. I am grateful for the opportunity to be a mentor to them and provide a safe place for them for seven hours every day. Ask your son or daughter about Giraffe Language!!
Our language and math classes are going great. If your student is not in my class for either of those subjects and you would like to contact their teacher, please let me know. In my language class this week we have been reading Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life by Wendy Mass. The first line of the book begins... "My sweat smells like peanut butter." Obviously with a line like that, the kids were immediately engaged! We spent the week learning how to spot information while reading, listing character traits, and recapping what we read. Students were given tools on how to organize information using Venn diagrams and they wrote compare and contrast paragraphs about two of the main characters, Jeremy and Lizzy.
My math class still included the prealgebra, algebra and adv. algebra kids. We spent the week reviewing addition, subtraction, multiplication and division of integers (positive and negative numbers) and learned about real numbers, rational and irrational numbers. On Monday the pre-algebra kids will officially start Direct Instruction with Christine. The algebra class will stay with me. Be ready to move fast! We have a lot to learn!
Our website project went on the back burner last week as I realized the snail pace we were going with it wouldn't change until we have computers in our room. As soon as this happens, we will continue the project. We are still working on the Rome vs US history project. Last week we compared Rome's downfall with some of the things happening in the United States today. This week we will work on creating a perfect world. We also started a nutrition science/math project. Part 1 of this project involves writing down what you eat for seven days. I sent the students home with a packet on Thursday that includes 7 counting calories logs to be filled out each day for everything they eat. Please remind your student to fill these out as their information is vital to completing the project. Last week we learned how all food, whether it is sugar, fat or protein gets stored as fat cells if it is not used up. This week we will investigate hands on what a cell looks like and how food travels to all of our body parts.
A quick thank you to Julian's mom who stepped in and is teaching an amazing cultural dance class as one of the Friday Experts. Those who got to experience it had a great time. Once you get to know me you will find I am quite clutzy. I now know how to fall with grace! Anyone else still sore from crab walking?
Along with their nutrition packets, I sent home another important paper that I hope your student showed you. If this isn't timely enough, it is an announcement of our schoolwide junk food policy. I personally have noticed a difference in the energy level of kids in my class who had sodas and sugary foods for breakfast and lunch. Please send your kids to school with healthy food and snacks. Sodas and candy in my class will be confiscated until after school.
Last but not least... I am looking for a room parent or two for our class. An email is going out this week with the specifics. If you are available I would truly appreciate it.
Looking forward to another great week!
Saturday, September 20, 2008
What a Week!
This week was full of many ups and a few downs.
It is good to finally be on our regular day to day schedule. Things are going smoothly as we learn to transition from place to place throughout the day. I can truly say as I left school on Friday that things are looking up.
Parents I would like to ask you to please talk to your child about what it means to be an effective student. There were quite a few times earlier this week when I was disheartened and frustrated because some of our class members caused distractions and inattention during class. I admit I focused more on those who were causing problems which in turn took away from my ability to teach to those who were ready to learn. On Wednesday, I publicy apologized to the kids who I had been neglecting. I knew I did not need to name names as they knew who they were. I am grateful for their good examples.
This week our DI (direct instruction) classes for language arts and math were put into place. Most of the students were placed in the correct ability level according to the assessments they took before school started. We are still shuffling a couple of students who may be moved to a different level.
In the coming weeks you will be able to view what your son or daughter is doing with regard to their project based service learning. This Thursday, I introduced the kids to Project Foundry in the computer lab. We took a look at how to input, revise, document and log in time spent on our projects. To begin the year, most of our projects are teacher guided. By the end of the year students will be designing and completing their projects on their own.
On Friday we started our community partnerships. This is definitely something kids outside of our school don't get to experience on a regular basis! Each course is ten weeks long. The rotations in which every student will get to participate in the next year are: Lego PlayTEK, Creative Movement, Drama Kids, Emerging Arts, Archeology and Drum Circle. Some of the sixth graders in our class went to DramaKids and Emerging Arts. The rest of the sixth, seventh and eighth graders were introduced to Archeology and Drum Circle. Very fun.
Happy Saturday
It is good to finally be on our regular day to day schedule. Things are going smoothly as we learn to transition from place to place throughout the day. I can truly say as I left school on Friday that things are looking up.
Parents I would like to ask you to please talk to your child about what it means to be an effective student. There were quite a few times earlier this week when I was disheartened and frustrated because some of our class members caused distractions and inattention during class. I admit I focused more on those who were causing problems which in turn took away from my ability to teach to those who were ready to learn. On Wednesday, I publicy apologized to the kids who I had been neglecting. I knew I did not need to name names as they knew who they were. I am grateful for their good examples.
This week our DI (direct instruction) classes for language arts and math were put into place. Most of the students were placed in the correct ability level according to the assessments they took before school started. We are still shuffling a couple of students who may be moved to a different level.
In the coming weeks you will be able to view what your son or daughter is doing with regard to their project based service learning. This Thursday, I introduced the kids to Project Foundry in the computer lab. We took a look at how to input, revise, document and log in time spent on our projects. To begin the year, most of our projects are teacher guided. By the end of the year students will be designing and completing their projects on their own.
On Friday we started our community partnerships. This is definitely something kids outside of our school don't get to experience on a regular basis! Each course is ten weeks long. The rotations in which every student will get to participate in the next year are: Lego PlayTEK, Creative Movement, Drama Kids, Emerging Arts, Archeology and Drum Circle. Some of the sixth graders in our class went to DramaKids and Emerging Arts. The rest of the sixth, seventh and eighth graders were introduced to Archeology and Drum Circle. Very fun.
Happy Saturday
Sunday, September 14, 2008
This Week: September 15-19
I hope you all had a great weekend!
This week, we will start off each day with 8 to Great Highway 3: Full Responsibility. During this time, we will focus on the importance of being responsible for our own actions. We will learn what it means to go from from B.C. to A.D.(Blaming and Complaing to Acting and Dreaming). We will be talking about "shoulds". Sometimes we are hard on ourselves (or on other people) because of the things we think we (or they) "should" do. We will discover how to turn a "should do" into a "want to".
Tomorrow we will get to break up into groups based on ability in Math and Language Arts. Students will switch classes during those times and may or may not be with their homeroom teacher (me) during those times.
This Monday after lunch we will not have community experts yet. During that time we will work on our first project - our class website. This site will be designed by the kids and will include fun info about our class. Hopefully we can even set up a link to include this blog on the site. Each student has a part in this project whether it be web design, gathering information from each student, incorporating graphics, audio and visual effects, editing, etc.
PE will be in the ping pong area this week! Dont forget we have PE every Monday, Tuesday and Thursday.
During the next two weeks our class will also be involved in a mini history project. I just read a fascinating book called Are We Rome? by Cullen Murphy. It compares the rise and fall of Rome to America today. We will look at some similar issues such as government infrastructure, our attitude toward our borders, citizenship, and the military. This project will cover the CA standards for all three grade levels in history as 6th graders learn about the Rise of Rome, 7th graders learn about the Fall of Rome and 8th graders learn about U.S. History. This project will lead us right into a fun math mini project I am designing to cover the upcoming presidential elections.
This Friday will be our first experience with our Community Partnerships. I will give you more information on that as I get it.
Looking forward to an awesome week. For your info...I will post every Sunday and Friday. Sundays note will take a look at the week ahead. Fridays note will tell you how the week went!
This week, we will start off each day with 8 to Great Highway 3: Full Responsibility. During this time, we will focus on the importance of being responsible for our own actions. We will learn what it means to go from from B.C. to A.D.(Blaming and Complaing to Acting and Dreaming). We will be talking about "shoulds". Sometimes we are hard on ourselves (or on other people) because of the things we think we (or they) "should" do. We will discover how to turn a "should do" into a "want to".
Tomorrow we will get to break up into groups based on ability in Math and Language Arts. Students will switch classes during those times and may or may not be with their homeroom teacher (me) during those times.
This Monday after lunch we will not have community experts yet. During that time we will work on our first project - our class website. This site will be designed by the kids and will include fun info about our class. Hopefully we can even set up a link to include this blog on the site. Each student has a part in this project whether it be web design, gathering information from each student, incorporating graphics, audio and visual effects, editing, etc.
PE will be in the ping pong area this week! Dont forget we have PE every Monday, Tuesday and Thursday.
During the next two weeks our class will also be involved in a mini history project. I just read a fascinating book called Are We Rome? by Cullen Murphy. It compares the rise and fall of Rome to America today. We will look at some similar issues such as government infrastructure, our attitude toward our borders, citizenship, and the military. This project will cover the CA standards for all three grade levels in history as 6th graders learn about the Rise of Rome, 7th graders learn about the Fall of Rome and 8th graders learn about U.S. History. This project will lead us right into a fun math mini project I am designing to cover the upcoming presidential elections.
This Friday will be our first experience with our Community Partnerships. I will give you more information on that as I get it.
Looking forward to an awesome week. For your info...I will post every Sunday and Friday. Sundays note will take a look at the week ahead. Fridays note will tell you how the week went!
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
What A Great Day!
When you treat every day as a new experience, you will never be disappointed! Today is my first attempt at blogging. I am excited to have a place to share my thoughts and info about my awesome classroom at Innovations Academy. Check back often as I will try to keep you up to date with daily happenings in our class.
I want to thank those parents who supported our class today on our first field trip of the year. I could not have done it without you. You made a difference in the lives of quite a few kids today. Thank you, thank you!
To my amazing kids...I just want to share with you how great it is to spend my school days with you. We are going to go through a lot of "firsts" together this year. I give you my word that I will encourage and guide you as you discover for yourselves, the potential you have to make a difference in your life and in this world.
Happy Tuesday!
I want to thank those parents who supported our class today on our first field trip of the year. I could not have done it without you. You made a difference in the lives of quite a few kids today. Thank you, thank you!
To my amazing kids...I just want to share with you how great it is to spend my school days with you. We are going to go through a lot of "firsts" together this year. I give you my word that I will encourage and guide you as you discover for yourselves, the potential you have to make a difference in your life and in this world.
Happy Tuesday!
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