What a wonderful first week!

Team Aurora has a new blog post!

We had planned to post our first video blog today, but alas, we ran out of week. We shall attempt it on Tuesday.

Here were some highlights of the week:

Writing our first stories
Classroom scavenger hunt
Creating classroom maps
Attending our first 5th Grade Town Meeting
Learning about clubs
Singing a new birthday song for our August birthdays
First day of chorus today
EXPs
recess
lunch buddies
CPR
Creating leaves for our community tree (see it in the hall outside Team Epic)
Classroom reading (classroom library exploring - we love those graphic novels)
Reading logs
Reflection journals
Using our growth mindset
Using C.A.R.E.S. (cooperation, assertion, responsibility, empathy and self-control)
Practicing CARES shout outs
Classroom jobs
Procedures for everything....hallway, end of day, lunch, recess, bus
Smelling our math books
Read aloud
flexible seating
Cross county running (for many of us!)
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and that was only 3 days!
Rest well this weekend. We have more to do next week. It is so fun to be around the excitement of fifth graders.

First Day Greatness and Homework

We had a pretty terrific, though very warm first day. Some highlights include decorating cubbies and name tags, lunch buddies, listening to Ms. Lamb read A Bad Case of Stripes while exploring using our flexible seating options, trying to "Flip the Boat," writing in our reflection journal, learning about our classroom jobs and getting onto the correct bus. That was a lot of learning for the first day.

Everyone on Team Aurora chose a book to read today. Students are expected to read every night. Students may start slow, like 10 minutes or whatever you can do, and work up to 30 minutes per night. For the month of September, students may read anything they choose, fiction, non-fiction, graphic novels, comic books, magazines.

Keep communicating with us if something comes up at home. We appreciate all the notes from today!

Also, the Lamb homeroom has PE tomorrow. Wear or bring sneakers. It will be much cooler tomorrow.

Monday! Monday! Monday! (8/27/18)

Hello! 

Don't forget our wonderful Watermelon Welcome this Monday 8/27 from 6-6:30! We are very excited to meet you and have you see our classroom!! Make sure it is on your calendars!

Let summer last a little while longer...

Hello families and friends!

We hope you have been enjoying your vacation and getting every ounce of relaxation time in before the school year begins. We wanted to link the latest newsletter that was sent home via email, so that you can look it over if you have not already, and get back to us with any questions or concerns. Lots of new changes in the classroom are happening each day and we can't wait until the students make it feel like their own space!

Link to Newsletter is here!↓

Newsletter #1

Many thanks.
Have a wonderful few weeks!😎
Ms. Lamb & Ms. Roberge