Week 3 Highlights

Wow! Our routines and structures of our class and procedures are becoming smoother every day and these good habits are being reinforced. Setting up routines and learning these at the start of the year can sometimes be a painful and difficult process, but Room 307 students are just amazing! Students new and old are all seamlessly becoming one community and learning 307's ways together. We started our ever-popular Class Economy system founded by Rafe Esquith, a classroom teacher and Vanguard, an investment management company. This system works to help students learn about the real-world skills of money management, earning a salary, paying rent, earning bonuses, paying fines, and holding a class auction at the end of each month. We will continue learning about this system throughout this month and into the rest of this school year.

We also went on our first field trip to the Seattle Aquarium on Thursday for the Salmon Homecoming event. It was a lot of fun - here are some pictures from our time!

Highlights:

-We have chosen our writing pieces to publish next week. Students are continuing work on their writing stamina at home and at school. Each day, students are asked to writing an entry or continue a writing entry at home. 

-Students in the Stanford math group took their first math test on Friday. Princeton math group students will be taking their math test on Tuesday. The second unit that these two groups will start this week is Multiplying & Dividing Whole Numbers. 

-We have gotten deeper into our read aloud book Something to Hold. We had some great conversations on some of the issues that the book brings up. All students have been assessed on their reading levels as well this week. A former teacher donated some chapter books to our ever-growing library! Here are students sorting through and categorizing them into different genres.

-There were lots of hands-on experimenting in science. We made physical models based on our conceptual models of our black boxes. 

We decided to measure Norbert and track his growth. Here is Norbert hanging out with our class - he was a bit timid, but we know he will warm up as he gets older!

-Our Chromebooks arrived! We can't wait to start using them in our classroom.