Another Chance to Be GLOBAL...

Greetings, my darling 5B!

I hope everyone's weekends have been fun, relaxing, productive, and enjoyable in some way!  I visited my parents, did a movie and popcorn night and hope to get a family bike ride in today at some point! We will see though!  I hope you get a chance to spend time with family!

Last Week...

There were a lot of opportunities for our class to think "globally" and connect (fist bump x2 - gotcha!) with each other and others around the world.  Especially on Friday, we really got to feel a sense of coming together while playing www.freerice.com and helping people around the world.  What a fantastic way to become a "global citizen"! Over 16,000 grains of rice were earned by 5B and 5D students in literacy class just by learning and gaining more knowledge!  That's truly an amazing feeling!  So proud of you all!



So This Week...
We want to continue this connection with others outside of our own class, school and town to enjoy the diversity that makes our world so fabulous!  We will be celebrating International Dot Day on Monday!  We talked a bit about it on Friday, but if you forgot, it's all about......






Remember that we'll be celebrating this on MONDAY.  Bring any materials that you would like to show how YOU can be creative.  Ideas thrown out by some of you on Friday were these, but don't feel like you need to stick to the list.  Be CREATIVE...bring what you want!

Legos

Materials for inventing/creating objects

Craft supplies

Paints

Special paper

Glitter

Wearing dots on you

Play-doh

Markers

Stickers

Popsicle sticks

Cotton balls

Balloons

We also have a special event on Monday.  Since we are trying to connect (fist bump, fist bump - gotcha again!) with people GLOBALLY... we'll be using Skype to meet with another class to see how they explore their CREATIVITY!  The world seems much smaller when we learn more about those we didn't know before!

Last but not least... I wanted to ask you to think about last week's "Chatty Bug" that was quite contagious throughout the room.  This "Chatty Bug" seems to fly around and sit on a few of our 5B family members during the day, but then it spreads like a contagious disease during our Planner time at the end of the day.  It's time we wipe out this contagious disease!  Let's use our Cadet Pride and T.H.I.N.K. about how we are affecting our 5B family.  It's time to SWAT that CHATTY Bug and take control of our learning, right!?  So, help each other out.  Quietly remind each other.  Maybe start being a bit more direct to those who are NOT trying very hard.  We'll get it figured out....together!! :)

Finally, I'll know you checked the blog if you ask me...

"Where's my new home, Mrs. Sorenson?"  And I'll tell you where you should be moving to:)  Yeh, it's moving day!!