Tuesday, October 30, 2018

New Seats

Our week began in an exciting way with our students discovering a new seating arrangement!  The class understood that change is good when it gives them the chance to work with new people and make new friends.  We also began an added incentive by giving table points for good behavior.  We will specifically work on learning to become good leaders in table groups.  Today we defined leadership and talked about what good leadership looks like and sounds like.  Our tables are off to a good start practicing leadership skills.  When we move to our next new seating arrangement, the winning table will receive a prize.

Our class also earns bears for great whole class behavior and today we earned our last two bears!!  Now we get to enjoy a movie at the end of the day.  We always say that good things happen when we choose to do the right thing!

Our next Bible story is about David and we will stress how much God wants us to be good leaders and how He uses leaders to help people.

In reading we will cover letters t, u and v this week, then have a quiz over their sounds and how to write them.

We talked about the importance of writing letters AND numbers correctly in math today.  Then we learned how to make great 6's and 7's, practicing them at our tables.

In science we continued designing, testing and redesigning boats.  Today the size of the our lakes changed and that caused us to use our brains to adjust our previous designs.  Soon the bear boat competition will begin and we will apply all we learned from our 'failures' to making the best design. 

We do celebrate failures as learning opportunities in our class!  Doing something wrong is one of the very best ways to learn how to change and do it right.

We try to fail forward and hope you do, too!

Mrs. Luoma

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