Hard at work! I have enjoyed observing student strategies in sorting and adding money this week!
We enjoyed celebrating Ms. Jarocki today! Congratulations! We know she will make an exceptional teacher! Thank you for working so hard with children in our classroom! We love you!
Happy birthday to Cash! 8 is great!
What LEARNING and GROWING went on in room 217 this week:
Academics
ELA: Class Novel: Winter According to Humphrey by Betty Birney; describing the connection between scientific ideas or concepts in a text, -or and -ist suffixes and spelling patterns
Writing: letters and editing with partners
Math: MONEY!
Social Studies: Character Counts pillar – Responsibilty… Congratulations SOLEIL!
Science: People in Science: Dr. Mei-Yin Chou
Students of the week:
Tati and Aiden
Thanks for being considerate of others and organized this week!
Important Dates:
- 12/11: Class Pictures
- 12/15: Breakfast with Santa
- 12/18: wrapped book due for book exchange
- 12/19: items due for class breakfast
- 12/21: Class breakfast party – 9:15 – 10:00
- 12/21: 2nd quarter ends; early release
- 12/24-1/4: Winter Break
Reminders:
Old Town Trolley Tours has partnered with INK! (Investing in Kids), a non-profit supporting St. Johns County public schools for the first annual Holiday Tree Contest! Students and teachers from each school decorated their designated trees at Old Town Trolley Headquarters in St. Augustine with their favorite themes. R.B. Hunt decorated their tree as a lighthouse. Voting can be done daily on any and all devices beginning December 4th through 10:00 a.m. on December 20th.
The winning school will be announced on December 20th at 12pm.The school’s tree with the most votes will win $1,000 so please vote for the R. B. Hunt tree daily! The link to vote is below:
trolleytours.com/holidaytreecampaign
- Thank you to everyone who donated to our fabulous tree and to Ms. Chaconas for putting everything together! It looks amazing! Hopefully we will have a winner or two from our class! 🙂
