Friday: Vivid Vocab, IIR, Arrays, Raptors, 1,2,3 Noise level, Band

Friday was another hot one, but we were relieved to have 5 fans in the room today. Thanks for bringing those in. Good news, our kids exceeded their classroom goal by reading 1330 minutes last night. Keep up the good work. Today we started our first Vivid Vocab assignment and the project is to be taken home and finished at home. Kids have each chosen a word to: 1. Write in bubble letters on construction paper 2. Research and define the word in their own words 3. Use the word in a meaningful sentence 4. Create a visual representation for the word on the paper 5. Make it full of color 6. Present their word to the class on Wednesday (I added a "kid friendly research" link to the left to help with this assignment. Today we also defined IIR time as "Intentional (with a purpose) Independent (by yourself and for yourself) Reading". Students were given back graded ladybug dreamhouses for math and worked on the arrays of 24 and 48 and their various perimeters. We also spent a great deal of time training students on the volume level in class with a Level 1- silent, Level 2 (2 inch voice), Level 3 projected voice. We're learning how to keep work time to a level 2 voice. We were visited by Chad Davies (the band teacher) who did a demo for band and collected interest slips from the kids. You might be contacted by him next week. Finally we discussed our plan for Launching the Kettle chip sales next week. We need to have teams of kids create posters for the Raptor sales, visit classes and inform them of the sales, and perform sales at lunch on Thursday. If anyone wants to volunteer to help with any of those projects, please contact me. We will be working from 11:00 to 11:30 everyday next week on each of those projects. Thank you to the parents who brought in fans and also for bringing in washers. I'll take those off my wish list! Also Mr. E is loaning a lunch cart to C6 for now so I took the cart off the list. Stay cool this weekend! Sincerely, Kyle