September 9th, 2010
Class activities for Thursday, September 9
We continued our welcome back activities today:
Straw Towers
We discussed the Straw Tower building activity that students completed yesterday. Some insights about teamwork that students shared:
- Sometimes you have to work with a scarcity of resources. Quitters complain about the scarcity, champions overcome their problems and never give up.
- Everyone is important. Just as a pinky finger is important to the body and can cause problems if it’s broken, every person is important to a team and can cause problems if they give up.
- Doing the right thing in the wrong way is wrong. Focusing on building the straw tower taller, without making the foundation strong, will only lead to a collapse later.
- Build your foundation first, before you climb higher. First things first. If you try to take shortcuts to get ahead, your creaky tower will eventually crash down.
Mission Statement
Every team has a mission that explains who they are and what they want to do. Here’s ours:
Every student in Room 130 leaves improved and prepared for 6th grade.
Class Goals
We selected the following class goals for this year:
- We will improve our STAR reading scores monthly and grow at least one year by the end of the year.
- All students will pass our math tests with a grade of C or better.
- We will move our magnets no more than ten times each week (or, less than 40-50 magnets each month).
Visit our Class Data Center in the future to track our progress.
Class Rules
We selected one class rule to rule them all:
Follow the High Fives*.
*Respect, responsibility, kindness, honesty and courage
Courtyard Vegetable Garden
We built a vegetable garden in our courtyard last year and decided to donate the harvest to Carriage Town Mission in Flint. Today, we harvested a bunch of tomatoes and onions!
- Yellow magnets: 0
- Orange magnets: 0
- Red magnets: 0
- STAR Awards: 0
- Magnets moved this week (goal: 10): 0
Check your student’s Personal and Social Growth grade at SnapGrades to see if your student moved their magnet. Need help with SnapGrades?
Notes:
- Team Day has been moved to Friday, September 17 from 10-11:30am. Can you help?
- School Supply list
- Need to update your contact information or send in your email address or phone number? Do that here.
- Parents and family members, find out more information about our class here.
- Students, visit StudentCentral here.
- Check out our class calendar to stay up-to-date.
- View grades, assignments, and attendance at SnapGrades.
Our Mission:
Every student in Room 130 leaves improved and prepared for 6th grade.
