Published Author Visits 5B!

5B,
Be sure to tell your family about our opportunity to have a former 5B student and published poet come into our classroom and share her writing and suggestions for us!  I feel honored to have Amanda want to come back and share.  Teachers love to stay connected (fist, fist - gotcha, I bet) to students not only during the year, but over years and years and years!  Maybe you'll stop back in your 5B homeroom class years from now!  Yah, I'll probably have gray hair, using a walker and barely able to hear you, but I'd still love it!

Class Team Competitions:  After seeing how our class was choosing teams today, it made me realize that the one area that 5B could work on would be "openness to others".  I think we have a caring bunch of students in 5B for sure... You know it by our letters/cards we're getting back from Cresco people.  However, it seems we may be losing patience for our own classmates.  It's definitely like a family in here.  Sometimes we get along with our siblings/family, sometimes we don't, but no matter what, we stick together as a family and support each other.  SO...  I've decided to do a combination of you choosing teams and ME helping!  When we have our morning time, I'll explain more and be ready to say, "GAME ON!" once again!

Reminders:
Earthquake group - Coffee Talk THURSDAY (you changed it, remember!!)
The Big Wave group - Coffee Talk Friday
Work on Super Hero Prototypes - due Friday, Jan. 25 (we'll share them with CT friends, too)

Proof for checking the blog...
I'll know you checked the blog tonight (or in the morning) if you think of someone in our class that you don't usually choose to chat with, work with, hang out with, sit with at lunch, etc.  Write their name on a piece of paper, and come up with something positive about them.  Anything.. maybe it's that they are quiet in line.  Maybe they have a nice smile.  Maybe they are funny at times.  Maybe they know a lot about a certain topic.  No matter what it is, try to be open to seeing that getting to know all of our classmates is the first step to truly feeling like a 5B Family.  And this is your "mama" talking:)

Have a great night... see you Thursday!  Get working on those Super Hero Prototypes... can't wait to see what will be shared!!