Loop at the Lake: May 23rd

*We do "loop at the lake" every Friday for announcements. Here is one that recaps leadership day a bit!

Kinder Orientation

Beating the heat!

It may be hot, hot, hot outside but we are still finding ways to have fun in the sun!! We are doing bubbles, water play, side walk chalk, and jump rope. Please keep a change of clothes in your child's back pack incase they get a little too wet and messy!

Celebrating Great Behavior

As part of the PBIS(positive behavior interventions and support) committee we came up with a new school wide reward systems to reinforce good behavior through out the school. The idea is to be fishing for compliments. Every time another staff member gives a class a compliment they earn a fish. Compliments can be about "s.w.i.m.ing" in the hallway, behaving well in specials, being quiet in the library, cleaning up and being respectful in cafeteria, etc. When a class earns 50 compliments they earn a special celebration. We were one of the first classes to earn our celebration and the class voted on Popsicles and extra recess:) We are working on earning another celebration before the end of the year! 

Adding and subtracting

Here are a look at some of the math centers. Top left, adding dominos(students have to count the dots and fill in the blank with the correct number tile). middle left, math word problems showing your work. Top right, fishing for facts(pulling numbered fish to create addition and subtraction problems). Bottom, leap frog spinner game to add and subtract the numbers they land on. 

Leadership day

Leadership day was a huge success. The students did a great job singing songs about the habits and greeting guests to our classroom. The students lead an activity on the smart board to inform the guests how we work on being proactive and chose our own weather. The visitors enjoyed their visit in our classroom and were impressed with how students answered and lead the discussion. Meredith and Jaeden greeted them at the door and shook their hands. Saige, Zariah, and Barry gave a short speech on what it means to chose your own weather. All other students participated in the discussion and sang the seven habits with the hand motions. Natalie spoke on stage to all the guests about the habit, seek first to understand then to be understood and taught the hand motion. Curtis shook hands to guests in the hallway and answered open questions about leadership at our school. Everyone did a great job and showed how well our classroom has adapted the seven habits. We will perform the song at the end of year celebration and videos will be posted to the lake Myra website for you to check out! 

Farewell to another friend

We are sad to see another dear friend in our class move away and have to go to a new school. Andy is a sweet kid and was always making others happy. We will miss him and wish him the best at his new school!

Reading Goals

The third habit, "Beginning with the end in mind" is a helpful strategy in life. Whether it be for health, mental, academic, spiritual, professional or family reasons we all set goals. This can be enforced at an early age to build life skill strategies. We have been doing this in kindergarten, starting by setting daily behavior goals. Our most recent is to set weekly reading goals to encourage and motivate children to grow as readers! We are tracking if they are reading every night to reach their end goal (ex. Read 5 hours this week, read 6 books by Friday, learn ten new sight words and identify them in the books read each night,etc). I'm trusting their word when they tell me if they have or haven't worked towards their goal. They have been honest with me so far but to help keep them responsible please begin noting it on their hw slips that are already in their folders. The entire school is participating in setting specific reading goals and there will be some fun competition involved. 

Flat Stanley

We had the honor of having the world traveler, Flat Stanley visit our classroom. He was sent to Jaeden by a friend in California. Not sure of the tale of this little man? We enjoyed having Stanley to our classroom as part of his journey! Click here to find out more http://www.flatstanleybooks.com