It was good to be back after missing 2 days to attend Cognitive Coaching training. Cognitive Coaching is an interesting concept that teaches thinking strategies and problem-solving skills.
Our time together flew by this morning since it was an early release day for collaborative planning. We spent some time reviewing over our spelling assignments. The spelling test [...]
Entries from February 2007
Half Day
February 28th, 2007 · No Comments
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Rainy Day
February 21st, 2007 · No Comments
Today we continued reading Amelia to Zora: Twenty-Six Women Who Changed the World by Cynthia Chin-Lee. This wonderful book contains 26 one-page biographies of women who have made a positive difference in the world. Each biography contains a quote from that woman. Jane Goodall was one of the women we read about today, and her [...]
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Tuesday
February 20th, 2007 · No Comments
It was good to have our classroom community back together today after the long weekend. Mr. Bosch and I attended some great sessions yesterday at the district instructional fair. Due to missing yesterday and a day of school last week, we need to catch up on some things. Tomorrow students will take the morning work quiz on [...]
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Happy Valentine’s Day!
February 14th, 2007 · No Comments
Today we continued working on this week’s vocabulary words. Students created Open Mind word webs for the words remedy and bedlam. Fortunately we avoided classroom bedlam today, in spite of the fact that it was a special day! The quiz on these words won’t be until Tuesday of next week. Students are continuing the process [...]
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Interims
February 6th, 2007 · No Comments
Interim reports went home today. Also included in the envelope is important information about middle school next year. In middle school related arts classes are called exploratory classes, and student have will have 2 exploratory classes each day. There is a form that you need to complete and return this week to indicate your child’s [...]
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Not enough snow!
February 1st, 2007 · No Comments
We were sorry our snow disappeared so quickly, but it was nice to come to school 2 hours late. We were able to finish the letters we were writing to soldiers serving in the Middle East and got them into envelopes. We also took our quiz on the geography vocabulary. Yesterday we used Google Earth [...]
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