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.

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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!