"Paw"-ction, Paper Planes, and Pennies

We have a lot of special activities happening next week!

Paw-ction Wars!

We will have our first ever paw-ction next week! Students have been earning paws for demonstrating excellent paw law behavior! We have lots of goodies to auction off! Remember, not every student will be able to "win" a treat at every auction. Students must decide whether they want to spend their paws on the item up for grabs! I usually start the bidding low (1 or 2 paws) but demand for the items can really draw the price up! :) I will try to upload a video after next week's pawc-tion!

Paper Airplane Contest

Our class earned enough class compliments to participate in the September PBIS celebration! Our focus this month was proper "paw law" behavior in the hallways: Being RESPECTFUL by being silent in the hall, being RESPONSIBLE by not disturbing other classes, and being SAFE by walking with hands to ourselves. Each time our class showed exemplary choices, we earned class compliments! Our goal was to earn 14 praises by September 30 and we arrived ahead of schedule yesterday!!! 

Airplane windows colored in for each class compliment

As a result of our excellent behavior, we get to participate in a paper airplane contest! Students will be able to make a paper airplane at home to use in our class competition next week. Each class' winner will then compete by grade level, and finally, the winner from each grade level will square off in front of our whole school to see whose airplane can travel the farthest! You can help your child by making a paper airplane this weekend and practicing flying techniques! For ideas and templates, click on the Fun Paper Airplanes website.

Please send your child's airplane to school by Monday September 30! Good luck!

Coin Challenge

Daily Coin Challenge

Please encourage your child to donate his/her "pocket change" to our class collection! Your child can bring in more than one penny, nickel, dime, quarter, or dollar each day! We will be able to purchase classroom library books with that money AND the class with the most money collected gets the special award of "mummy" wrapping an unnamed staff member with toilet paper! (Hint: the staff member's name rhymes with "Crincipal Janigan" *wink wink*) 

In other news...

Our class has been diligently working on finishing up our Kevin Henkes author study! We will finish up with a culminating "Kevin Henkes Mouse Day" Celebration! Please look for the parent note with more information about this (we need volunteers!)

We are also very excited to be starting a special book report project! Check out the kids working hard collaborating! They were so focused, they didn't even notice I was snapping pics!

Have a wonderful 3 day weekend! (No school for students Friday September 27 for a School Improvement Day)! 

Common Core and Dinosaurs!

Today, we started our Social Studies Unit. We learned two new vocabulary words: history and traditions. We will be working on a family traditions project in the upcoming weeks! Look forward to sharing about a special tradition in your family!

We also started working on our Common Core "I Can" portfolios! We feel excited to be able to show our parents all our hard work!

We took a 3 minute motor break and practiced the Koo Koo Kangaroo Dino Stomp Dance! Click here for the super fun video! 

In math, we learned a fun way to practice addition and subtraction using the frames and arrows diagram! Check out some students using the SMARTBoard to solve problems! 

   

Parent participation competition!

Parents! We need your help and participation! Our blog will have important and fun updates for you to check out! PLEASE make a comment! We are having a class competition. The child of the first parent comment will receive THREE paws! Every other commenter's child will earn a paw also!

Our class begging you to participate!

All you have to do is register and post a comment on this post. Examples of comments could be (student suggestions):

"Very cool blog!"-Arav
"Awesome class!" -Andrew
"I love the MON-STARS!"-Meghan
"I love the blog"-Abdulkader
"You have the world's coolest teacher!" (ha ha!)- ALL THE STUDENTS (but really, Mrs. Tahir)
"Your classroom is good"-Ivan
"_______'s mom/dad was here"-Anonymous
"Good Job!"-Jeremiah
"I love the SMARTboard"- Kataryna
"The blog looks good"-Ibrahim
"You are a very, very good teacher!"-Cecilia
"Cool picture!"-Rhea
"Mrs. Tahir is the best teacher!"-Tina
"Extraordinary blog"-Saranya (excellent use of a vocab word!) :)
"I like the blog!"-Junior

Mrs. Tahir's Scholastic September Book Order

Scholastic Book Orders are due on Thursday September 26, 2013! You can order directly online OR send in the form with a check made out to Scholastic Book Clubs. If we submit a $20 order this month, we will receive 10 free books for our classroom library!!! Click on the above link and enter our class activation code: HCLW8

Welcome Letter from Scholastic

Our First Class Post!

Hello families! Welcome to our classroom blog! Please take a moment to comment that you read our first post! 

Have a great weekend!

Mrs. Tahir