Monday Mini Series:Paper Airplane Instruction By Charlie

Sydney and Carly created a 10+10 lesson on how to make a paper airplane. They begin by filming and taking pictures of each step to make a step by step direction list of making the ultimate paper airplane. They walked us through each of the steps and they we tested each paper airplane by having a contest. After we made all of our paper airplanes we went out into the hall to see who’s could fly the farthest. Then the peoples airplanes that flew the farthest went into the finals to see who was #1. 

Congrats to Bridget Kiosow who won the paper airplane game.

Senior Night: By Kilmer

Senior Night is a special moment in a student’s life, they've been participating in a sport throughout high school and it’s coming to an end. You will soon have your last practice and your last game but you have already had your last home game ever.

Sydney Clarke is a senior involved on the varsity volleyball team. She has completed on the team and is a valuable player. Sydney had her senior night on Tuesday, September 23, 2014. Sydney's senior night marked the end of her high school career but she still has the opportunity to play in away tournaments. 







Grace Grant is a senior who has managed the girls volleyball team throughout her years at GEHS. She serves as a role model and always has a positive comment for each member of the team. She also had her senior night on  Tuesday, September 23, 2014.






Jessica Jimenez is a senior on the cheer squad. She has participated in dance for two year and cheer for two years, she also did track for a year. She had her senior night last Friday (October 24, 2014). Jessica says that her senior night was great and it was very emotional. What she will miss the most about Friday night lights is running out of the helmet.

Madison McClure is another senior on the cheer squad. She has participated in dance for a year and cheer for two years. Madi also had her senior night last Friday (October 24, 2014). Madison says that her senior night was memorable and she will miss the bus rides to games and back home.

  

Kilmer Torres is a senior who has been involved in soccer for 3 years. He had his senior night October 21^st. He says that he will miss all of the summer workouts and the bus rides home after a win. 

Monday Mini Series Four

Monday Work Day by Kilmer Torres

In Exploring Teaching we all get assigned a project every other Monday and have two Mondays to work on them. Some of the projects we get assigned are decorating doors, writing a blog over the class, teaching lessons, etc. These projects are really fun and are a great way to interact with one another.

We're Falling in love with the new bulletin boards. Check out the newest Bulletins.

Match Class is a "Hoot" By Miranda and Lindsay

In the Classroom You Must By: Sydney and Karlee

Halloween Party

Exploring Teaching celebrated Halloween in style today. Students brought in treats to snack on throughout the hour.

In groups, students each utilized an instructional strategy from the previous week to teach the class a mini Halloween activity.

The activities included:

• ·         Making witches houses                                
• ·         Ghost marshmallows
• ·         Ate donuts off a string                                             
• ·         Had a Halloween alpha race
• ·         Wrote  a spooky ghost store with one words sentences
• ·         Played Halloween Scategories                    
• ·         Played Horror Jeopardy 

Kindness Campaign

Our class participated in a compliment campaign this month. Students wrote compliments to other students each day, creating a chain of positivity in our classroom community. Each student was given their final completed chain on Halloween to take home.

This instructional strategy helped create a positive learning environment and demonstrated how learning can take place over many days. 

Rainbow of Compliments 

My very own compliment chain give to me by my amazing students!!

Spirit Week

For Homecoming week each day our class was decked out in sprit wear.

We were

· Patriotic on Monday

· Kings of the Jungle on Tuesday

· Neoned out On Wednesday

· Hippie Style on Thursday

· Blazer Spirit on Friday

Door Decorating Contest

One of the jobs many teachers find difficult is using creativity to design their classroom. Students were tasked with the job of meeting with a teacher, listening to their ideas, needs and wants to brainstorming a door decoration for their room. Students were given 50 minutes today to plan, assembly and photograph their door decoration.

This year’s theme was based on the season OR anti-bullying messages.  

 This is a scrabble for students to accomplish intentionally to help them gain a perspective of multitasking, meeting deadlines, working under pressure, problem solving with limited resources and communicating with a group. Please check out their amazing work below!

#KindnessGrows

This month, to celebrate Anti-Bullying Month, students will be participating in a social media campaign. Students have been challenged to “Stop bring a Grinch and Stop Bullying.” Our tagline is #kindnessgrows and students are challenged to post one positive comment on social media each day. Please feel free to join us in the campaign and stay positive on social media as well. You can find us at:

Twitter: @GEHSFutureTeach

Instagram: @GEHSFutureTeacher

#growgrinchsheart #kindnessgrows

Remember:

The Grinch may have a heart that is two sizes to small….

Give a compliment to one and all…

And watch his heart grow big and tall.

Book Box 3

I’m Sorry

            Miss Jordan choose a book from the Little Critter Series, I’m Sorry which talked about when any individual should say they are sorry and how saying sorry is a part of having good manners. She choose to have everyone go outside of the classroom to read her book and the change of environment was great. She then asked students to write a letter apologizing for something they have done in the paste they was a mistake.

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Miss Juliet choose Eric Carl and read The Very Hungry Caterpillar to our class which follows the eating habits and transformation of an itty bitty caterpillar into a beautiful butterfly. She then had each student complete one link of a chain with their favorite food by drawing and coloring a dish (or two). She then linked everyone’s chain together to make our very own class caterpillar who had a very full stomach.

The Ear Book

Miss Lindsay share The Ear Book to our class which is a story exploring what you can hear in your ear. The book features all types of ears and what each ear hears. She then lead a lesson where students all created their very own ear, then wrote and spoke about what that ear could hear.

Monday Mini Series Three

Just in: The latest “Mini” Bulletins. These new fall bulletin boards target spelling, personal happiness and promote students to be proud of what they can do. 

Spelling

Wall of Happiness

I can

We’re also gearing up for October and recalling our past Halloween Memories with this wonderful throw back to Halloween’s of past including pictures of students in their younger years or their favorite Halloween Memory. 

My Favorite Halloween Memory

Book Box 2

The Lonely Moose

Miss Alisha read a wonderful story about an unlikely friendship between a bid and moose. the story focused on the need to be a loyal friend even if someone is different from you. Students’ created their own friendship bird and colored him in based on symbols that matched that of a good friend.

We then went on an adventure to take an outside to put our birds in a tree.

Horton Hears A Who

Miss Bridget read aloud Horton Hears a Who for the class as her book box. She then had each student complete a writing assignment where they wrote a short story about who they hear on a speck. Students were instructed to use complete sentences and completed a worksheet designed for a 1^st grader with lines to help with letter formation.