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Class Mission Statement

This is what we are all about....

Early in the school year we sat down as a classroom and talked about WHO we were, WHAT we are doing here, and WHY we are doing those things. From that....I give you......(drum roll)...

Our Class Mission Statement:

Things We Find Important

We have been talking in writer's workshop about ways authors come up with ideas for writing.  One technique that author Donald Crews uses is to sketch pics or take photographs of interesting or important things in his environment.   
We decided to do it too!!  This week the students had the chance to take pictures of things in our room that they felt were important to what we do in the classroom.   Here are their pictures they took with our class camera as well as the sentence (or 2) they wrote about it. 
Enjoy!

We think these things are important... 

 I like the corpet beaucuse we wot have to sit on teh flool evy day. 

This is awre chanc chart poster it is inporetit becase it helps us with reding 

This is are class mission statement it is speshal to all of us 

This is important because we lrn alot and this is fun 

This is mprtat. It says win we ged now books 

Because so we can be smot to lrnu r goals!!! 

I took a pichr of the postr because we are wrcen on being awesome 

I tuc a pisho uv the kube bekus peple dot want bakpac on the graud 

This is are clas speashle chart for speshol thags like birthdays. we yous this for speshol thags onlie. We like this becauese it is for all of us. 

This is important because for we can be batr retrs and lrn to rede on tasck 

I took a pisher of the vocabuluerry words. We lern the vocabuluerry words because they help us rite and reed. 

I tok a pishur of the word wol. It is a potit because the word is a potit so we no mor words 

Daly 5 is awr riding and reding and lising time 

B ks its a maf tub at it is a nis maf tub

I took a pichr of the postr we nee to gat smot

Bey cus it hups us raeed

We pot stof ni the kobe

First Post of the Year

Wow.  I truly had full intentions of posting to our classroom blog at least once weekly. I'll have to get better at this, hopefully once it gets less crazy it'll be easier.  Not that it's a teeny tiny bit crazy this time of the year, nope not at all!

I hope you've been following our classroom newsletters.  I've recently switched to sending them home weekly instead of monthly. It's proving easier on my end so hopefully you're enjoying the updates and spelling words all in one place.  Please continue to read over them each week as any new info you need to be aware of will be in there.

Yesterday was our Grandparent's Day event.  We had several Special People in our classroom and it was great to see the students showing their grandparents the areas of our classroom they found to be important.  Last night was also our Open House!  Out of 18 kiddos, we had 10 families represented.  Again, the kiddos really took charge of demonstrating to families what we learn in the classroom, the special places in our room, and things in our room they find to be important.  It was also a time for parents to sign up for Parent-Teacher Conferences....so if you were unable to make it, please watch your child's backpack for a notice that will let you know when your conference is scheduled.

I believe that is it for today! My game plan is to have student input on what goodies we'll share on the blog and eventually posting up a virtual tour of our classroom.  I'll do my best to keep this updated but as this is a new adventure and addition to our classroom, it may take some time to get it into our routine.....bare with us :)


Thanks for all you do for your kiddo....
Mrs. Cantrell 

Don't forget! 

Tomorrow is Fremont's Domino's Night!  

When you call in and place your Domino's order, be sure to mention our classroom and Fremont Elementary.  A portion of the sale will go back to Fremont as well as if our class has the most orders we will earn a pizza party this month!  

So mark your calendars and get the word out!  

Tomorrow is Domino's !!!