Mrs. Wandsneider's Class

October Newsletter

* Collaboration and Inquiry: Students have been discussing how we can meet our learning targets during our inquiry units. They have created expectations that collaborative groups should follow in order to have productive and creative learning results.

Learning Targets:

* I can collaborate with other students to question, research, and learn.

* I can follow our collaboration rules.

* PBIS: We reviewed school expectations for behaviors on the playground. Students wrote and drew about a personal goal they wanted to work on.

* Conferences are Wednesday October 23, 2013. Notes about your scheduled conference went home, but please call if you have any questions or concerns.

* No school on Thursday October 24 - Friday October 25

* Thank you to all the families, teachers, and staff who helped to make our Scholastic Kids Are Author's celebration so special for us today. Our published book is ON SALE at the book fair during conferences. Get your own copy of this wonderful student work!

Click below to take a peek at the Longfellow Facebook page for pictures of our special day.

Longfellow Facebook Page

Technology Lesson: Dreambox with Mr. Scheiber

Learning about Columbus Day

Our class worked on activating our background knowledge about Columbus Day. We looked at many different resources to find some of the answers to our questions. Also, we worked together to read a Reader's Theatre about the difficult voyage Columbus and his crew had to endure.

Newsletter September

* Congratulations to our first 2 PBIS classroom winners Mariah Gilbert and Taiquan Robinson.
These students are great models for showing how we RESPECT SELF, RESPECT OTHERS, and RESPECT ENVIROMENT.

* Thank you to the many families who signed up to receive Class Dojo Weekly Reports regarding their child's behaviors. If you have any questions, please call or email me.

* Technology: Our class has been utilizing our iPads with 2 new reading and math apps
called RazKids and DreamBox.

Learning Target: To use the ipad as a tool to help with my learning.

* Classroom Curiosity: We have started our classroom mini inquiry about Bats and Birds.

* On Friday September 27, we had a special APPLE presentation from the Herzing Nurses.

We also enjoyed eating a healthy apple snack during their nutritional presentation.

Technology Lesson with iPads!

On Tuesday, we were very lucky to have
Mr. Scheiber (Longfellow School's Tech Integrator / GCT) join us in our class for a lesson on INTERNET SAFETY with our iPads! Here is a look at our learning targets for the lesson: