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February 24, 2012 Leave a comment
This month we celebrated our PBIS points with a school dance celebration!
These students earned 80% of their points for the month. They were so excited to attend the dance party and they have some moves! 
It was hard to get their pictures because they were so busy dancing!
We are so proud of them. They are great Memminger Superstars!!!!!
Happy Friday!
February 16, 2012 Leave a comment
This year we have been so lucky to have projects funded by wonderful, generous donors through the website Donors Choose. Our students just got another project funded this week and they are so excited about it! We now have a listening center in our classroom. See the picture below. The center came with headphones, a listening center organizer, and 6 new titles complete with multiple books and cds! Check out some of our other funded projects this year. If you ever get a chance to give to a classroom through Donors Choose, please do. It’s a wonderful program for teachers but most of all for students! Thank you again for each and every donor we’ve had this year! We are extremely blessed!
Math Project: counters, dominoes, pattern blocks, and a number book library!
Global Studies Donation: Posters of children from around the world, a year subscription to Time for Kids magazine, a book library for different countries, a global studies kit complete with flags, play food, and other things from the different countries.
Thank you! Enjoy your long weekend!
February 10, 2012 1 Comment
Each week my students are growing and changing so much but this week was different for some reason. Each morning after breakfast we have baggie centers that are review games from things we’ve learned. I try to challenge the students with new bags of harder things to do. They’ve been very brave and tackled them with excitement. This week they started tapping out more words in the word bags and their excitement was contagious. They were reading words! In the past some could read the words but it was more a memorizing thing, not identifying the actual sounds as part of the word. But this week that all changed. They were master tappers of words and then racing over to tell my assistant and me the word. That memory will last with me a lifetime, the first time some of them realized they actually can read, without me there by their side coaching them, but instead they were coaching each other. Hopefully they will keeping growing and growing. First grade is around the corner!
(Ta’shae practicing the beginning sounds of words with a snowman match)
(Skei and Ar’quavious practicing finding rhyming pairs, these two students actually were looking at the letters to make sure they were the right family!)
Diamonte so proud he just read his word!
Goumana practicing syllable sound sorting. Finding which words have 1, 2,or 3 syllables.
Ke’Amoni tapping out the word yes. She’s an expert tapper!
Can’t you see the excitement for this one! Ar’quavious just tapped “had” and then yelled, “it’s HAD!” priceless!
Happy Friday!
