App of the day

Each morning, when the students arrive they find the app of the day up on the board. Within the groups they go ahead and grab an iPad and start on the activity. Today the students practice math facts at their level against a classmate at their level.

Polar Express Day

Last Friday, we enjoyed our Polar Express day after our music program. The student's arrived to school in their pajama's. We rotated around through four different stations (wordo, story & snacks, computer games, and musical mats).

Operation Code Squad

The kids sure have been loving this app during the mornings. Up to four people can compete to practice math facts (+-X and divison), it also allows the students to pick easy, medium, or hard levels.

CODE

On Tuesday, we experienced our first day of using CODE. The kiddo's loved it! They were super bummed when we had to put the computers away! Check out code.org to learn about it. Great video's for parents, teachers, and students to learn about it.

Million Dollar Reader

Congrats to our first two readers to read one million words!! I think we will have more kiddo's with their face in this big buck before the end of the school year!

Technology at our hands

One of my favorite things about having more ipads in our school, is having the devices at our hands for spur of the moment research. One day we were in social studies learning about old communitiies. A couple of questions came up, and I knew the basic information...but the kiddo's wanted more. So I quickly found a website with a plethora of information. I made a QR code for the kiddo's to scan. The scan took them to a website and they went off to research!

Orange Day

We were all encouraged to wear orange to school in honor of NO BULLIES! We attended a program on anti-bully. The high school target team showed us great examples (through skits) of what bulling looks and feels like. We watched a short video called, "Don't Laugh at me." Makes Mrs. Hayden cry every time..it's so touching and a good reminder. You can youtube the song name to find it. It's also a book too! 

Sent from my iPad

Ram Pride Kick Off

What an awesome school we have! In September, we had a Ram Pride Assembly. It started off with great music, learned about Ram Pride. We discussed what it looks like and how you can earn it. We also learned about the Golden Vacuum!! My our kiddo's kept our room very clean!!! We ended up earning the GOLDEN vacuum the third week! We watched a neat video that another school created. They use a PBIS program too! At the end of the program we got to hear an AMAZING group called Six Appeal. Man, every kid was ready to get up and jump. The band is a vocal percussion, so they were teaching us how to make music with our body and voice! Thank you Roseau School!

Anthony Learns to Rope

During the second week of school, our selection story was about a young Mexican boy who learns to rope. We had the privilege of having a guest visitor join us at school and teach us how to rope! Thank you Mr. Comstock for taking time out of your day to teach us something! We truly enjoyed it.

Sneak peek into room 10

Welcome to Room 10! I am so thrilled to be starting this school year in room 10! This is my first year in third grade, I'm taking over for the veteran teacher Elwyn Ruud. I have spent many hours (don't even want to count or add them up) this summer preparing for our year together! I'm not ready for you quiet yet, thankfully I have one more week to prep. :) Here are a few photo's to show you what to expect when you enter....

Welcome!!!

Mastery Club Wall

This will be one of my favorite parts of the room.