Team Spirit!

This week the school has been celebrating Red Ribbon week to promote drug free students and Anti Bullying. Today the students wore their favorite team jersey to unite our school as a team against drugs and bullying. I may have been a little partial to some students......I think they know who Ms. Mitchell loves! :) HAIL!

Visualize/Analyze Character Traits

Last week we began our 3 week unit on character traits. Today the students put their inferencing skills to the test as they listened to "Brave Irene" being read aloud. Once finished they determined several character traits that Irene displayed in the story. Although the story did not tell us her exact character traits they did give us several clues. Students wrote down these clues to support each character trait they found. "Brave Irene" has been a huge hit with the students this week and they loved getting to hear it read aloud with the use of our technology package. Please ask your child to share this experience with you. I'm sure they can tell you all about Irene :)

Reading Circles

One of my favorite parts of our day is seeing how each of my groups interacts in their reading circles during centers. Yesterday I watched one group while they were together and it made my heart so happy! Seeing them discuss the story, talk about their favorite parts, and work together to answer comprehension questions, was amazing! I hope they continue to work this well together all year haha!

Virtual Pen Pals

My homeroom class is going to be participating in a virtual pen pal project with an English class at the intermediate school. Each week we hope to Skype with the class and discuss some of the things we have been working on. This will be a great way for each class to show of their learning skills! Hopefully if this works well we will be able to have more classes participate in this experiment as well. I haven't shared this news with my students yet but I can't wait to tell them! Thanks to Mrs. Davis at EIS for including us on this project!