Dragon Dollars

I know there have been questions about our Dragon Dollars earning system. We have a student choice list that starts at 25 dragon dollars and goes all the way to 200. They can spend it at 25 or save to get a bigger prize.  Instead of keeping all their tickets and having to recount them each time they each have a punch card.  Whenever they have 10, I can collect and hole punch their punch card.  Then when ever they want to spend the tickets they had collected they will tell me and I will let the office know.  I stapled the sets of 10 so they can take them home and show off a little So you can see that she has earned bucks already.  I go off of their punch card though so it will help with them keeping track of how many they have instead of having tickets everywhere.  So they did not lose any dragon dollars, they are still there. Hopefully, this clarifies any questions you may have.  If it does not then please just email me back. 😁😁😁

Homecoming!!!

Welcome to our first full week of school.  It's Homecoming after all.  We have so many things going on this week.  Let's start with our dress up days to go with supporting our High-School Homecoming:

Monday- Hat Day
Tuesday- Dress like your favorite teacher day
Wednesday- Pajama Day
Thursday- Rock Star Day
Friday- Dragon Pride Day and Parade at 1:30

Last week we took our STAR Reading assessment.  This gave us a specific reading range our students can use to pick good fit books.  This week we will use this reading range to chose an AR goal.  This is a goal that they want to hit for AR points each quarter.

            In Reading this week we will be learning 5 strategies to become better readers; Check for Understanding, Cross Check, Tune Into Interesting Words, Back Up and Reread, and Choose an appropriate level book. We will also continue to build our stamina in reading.
            In Writing, we will begin our Writers' Workshop with learning about what it looks like and sounds like.  We will be also working on reviewing sentence structures, nouns, and verbs.
             In Social Studies, we will study resolving disputes, communities, the common good, and being a good citizen.
             In Math, we will go into reviewing days of the week, months, and right/left. Then we will go to learning about our B.U.I.L.D centers.  Finally, we will start to learn about Place Value to 1,000.

Scavenger Hunt

Last week we started out with some get to know each other activities.  We talked about our first day jitters and things they wanted me to know about them.  We took an AR test in the library and talked about this year's incentive program for reaching their AR goal. From there we completed a scavenger hunt in our classroom to get to know where things were located.  We also started the first of our Positive Behavior System rule boot camps.  We started to review our lunchroom rules and how to walk and behave in the hallway.

This week this continues with; classroom procedures/behavior, bus behavior, recess behavior, and a continuation from last weeks lunch/hall. We will start our incentive program with Dragon Dollars and Class Bucks. This week inside our classroom, here are a few things we will learn about;

1. Daily 5 Reading system, read to self, building stamina, good fit books, how to use our library, and 3 ways to read a book

2. Setting up our Writers' Notebook and building our personal dictionaries

3. tattling versus reporting

4. modeling good versus bad behavior

Welcome Back!!!

We only have a couple of days left before our official first day of school.  I'm excited to meet all my new kiddos for 2017-2018.  This Tuesday, August 15th we have our Open House from 5-7 pm.  I look forward to seeing everyone and meeting all of our new Mid-Buchanan students!!! See you Tuesday!!