Late Breaking News!

Spirit Week Next Week: April 4th - 8th

Monday is Twin Day
Tuesday is Backward Day
Wednesday is Music Idol Day (dress like your favorite music star)
Thursday is School Colors-Red, Blue, and White.
Friday is school uniform

INTERNATIONAL DAY

Don't forget International Day.

Work on your poll of core values.

Gather things from your home that tell about your culture.

Work on the research needed for your project.

Unity Day this Friday

This Friday afternoon will be Elementary School Unity Day. PK - 5th Grade will be in mixed age teams and need to wear shirts the following colors. Also, don't forget sunscreen and hats.

Team 1: Monkey – Gaby & Moni (studco rep) dress in Brown shirts

1. Nicolas Diaz

2. Belen Ortega

Team 2: Snakes - Ale G and Chris (stuco rep) dress in Green shirts

1. Philip Dobbe

2. Hee Un Ryu

Team 3: Tucans – Tammy & Johnathan (stuco rep) dress in Blue shirts

1. Elena Isabel Jarrin

2. Daksh Seth

Team 4: Jaguars – Esteban and Emily (stuco rep) dress in Yellow shirts

1. Artem Khaybullin

2. Tanner Varni

Team 5: Elephant – Susi & Jordan (stuco rep) dress in Gray shirts

1. Jo Wan Bang

2. Valeria Monero

3. Ivana Weber

Team 6: Tigers – Caro & JuanJo (stuco reps) dress in Orange shirts

1. Eduardo Dassum

2. Carlos Humberto Noriega

Activities:

Egg & Spoon

Water cup on head

Splish Splish Splash ( duck, duck, goose)

Tug-O-War

Flower Blow

Balloon Toss

International Day Cometh

Oh, the classroom is a-twitter these with lots of work. We're finishing up our TED talk essays and then will begin work on our TED talk PowerPoints and speeches.

We're also working on our culture unit which will culminate in a display on International Day.

TED Talks will begin promptly at 12:20 on March 25th in the classroom. Displays will be up by 10:30am. Feel free to drop by any time after 10:30 to see the display and make plans to listen to the TED Talks.

The Great Debate

We had our "Whether the Colonies Should Have Independence from Great Britain" debate today. I was SOOOO impressed.

Each student took part in a panel of Loyalists or Patriots. First, each presented their opinion, and then they got to question each other. The group of students who were watching evaluated each person for 1) how well they knew their character, and 2) how well they presented their character.

Great job! The only bad thing was that I forgot my camera at home.

We've signed up for a great research compilation site called diigo.com. Students can highlight important parts of articles they read on the Internet, take notes online, and then post all their research to one place.

To do all this at home as well as at school they will need to download the diigo toolbar to your computer. It's easiest to do in Google Chrome, but can be done in any browser. (The students might need more help in other browsers.)

Simple go to www.diigo.com, select tools at the top of the page, and then download the tool bar.

Spirit Week and Valentines Day

Spirit Week is next week. These are the themes for each day of Spirit week:

Monday - Future me

Tuesday - Hippie day

Wednesday - Wacky Wednesday

Thursday - School colors (at this point this is a no jean day- but this might change) Pep Rally

Also on Tuesday they will start selling Valentine Candy Grams.