Hi Families,
I hope everyone enjoyed the very chilly weekend! Even though we are (supposedly) approaching spring, we are in need of a few items in our classroom to keep the germs away. We are looking for donations of tissues, paper towels, and hand sanitizer. Thank you for any help you can give our classroom!
Introducing Foxtown....
I am sure your child told you all about our town, Foxtown, which was introduced last week. We were running our classroom more like a town for the past week. Students applied for classroom jobs, were paid for good deeds, and paid for classroom "rentals." Of course the kids were excited to earn money that they could use at our classroom store on Friday.
Here are some of the highlights from last week's new adventure.... each student has a job that they applied for. They will hold a job for 2 weeks and each child will get paid at the end of each week. In addition, students can earn money for coming to school on time, handing in their homework, being ready throughout the day, showing respectful behavior, and being responsible. When a child earns money, he/she adds the money to a "checkbook." They money is added in and then added to their total money. Students also have to pay for "renting" certain materials in the classroom. Each child pays a weekly amount for renting the crates and the table/chairs. On Fridays the bankers collect the rental fees. Our class store will also be open on Friday. If students want to purchase an item at our store, they need to withdraw money from their checkbook. Students are also able to save for bigger prizes such as Gum Day or Choosing a Brain Break.
Each Friday we also will award a certificate to the Employee (s) of the Week. Congratulations to our wonderful Computer Technicians last week, Elijah and Gavin, on a job well done!
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| Employee of the Week- Computer Technician |
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| Employee of the Week-Computer Technician |
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| Collecting Weekly Fees |
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| Ready to get paid for a job well done! |
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| If we have the money we might as well spend it! |
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| Spending money at our class store |
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| Pay Day! |
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| So many choices to pick from |
We are so close to becoming published authors! Later this week we will have a celebration of all of the authors for their hard work! We will then be moving on to a creative writing prompt mini-unit. We will be able to use our learning from our Realistic Fiction writing unit during the next unit as well.
Science
We got a chance to move back to science last week. We reviewed the purpose of our Science Notebooks. We found the importance of taking good notes and observations in our notebook. We were able to see exactly what we were thinking about back in November during some of our experiments. We will continue to learn about weathering and erosion this week!
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