Our Second Day of School!

We had a wonderful second day of fourth grade!  We continued to build community and practice classroom routines and expectations.  First, we practiced sitting in a circle for our first class meeting.  We reviewed the 7 Habits, introduced the classroom jobs, and learned about class points and the clip chart.  

This is our leaders clip chart.  We will use this as a type of behavior management.  Students will "clip up" whenever they are caught doing something good.  We made an ongoing list of ideas together, including helping our classmates, challenging one's learning, being on task, etc.  However, we also briefly discussed that making poor choices would result in clipping down the chart to either yellow or orange.  Students will be rewarded for landing in pink at the top of the chart, and may owe recess minutes or warrant a call home for landing in yellow or orange at the bottom of the chart.  You will know where your child landed at the end of the day by looking at the colored circle in the assignment book. The colored circles correspond with the colors on the clip chart.  More information can be found in our class handbook and a copy will be given to you on Curriculum Night this Wednesday.  

Next, we participated in the Cup Tower challenge.  Students had six cups and a "tool" to build a tower.  They couldn't use their hands in building their structure.  Take a look at students' towers and the clever ways they used their building tool.  

In the afternoon, we had our first Responsibility Recess.  On Wednesdays and Fridays, students who have turned in all homework and had great behavior will get to attend an extra afternoon recess!  We also had our first school assembly, where we met the new assistant principal, Mr. Schoenekase.  

For homework, students are to bring back any forms that need to be signed and returned in the manila envelope.  Also, if students have not already done so, they should bring in magazines and/or pictures they are interested in to decorate our writer's notebooks tomorrow.  

Important Info.

Curriculum Night is this Wednesday night at 6:30 in our classroom.  You will find out more about the classroom and fourth grade curriculum.   Weekly Updates will start next week on Friday.  That means that I will hold most blog posts and updates until Friday or sometime over the weekend to recap the week.