The Bailly Beacon: News for the week of March 14, 2016

Bailly Elementary!

As the weather gets warmer, I will try to take the kids outside to do our lessons when we can. If you have or would like to donate a waterproof blanket for all of the high ability classes to share, we would really appreciate it!

Word of the week : Energy! Having the intensity and great stamina to accomplish something.

Quote of the week: "Well done is better than well said." -Ben Franklin. Picked by David, 4th grade.

Kindergarten and 2nd grade cogAT Testing:

Hooray! All of the cogAT testing for Bailly Elementary School is complete!

Kindergarten permission slips went home this week. If you got a pink permission slip, please fill out that form and return so that your student may begin services on Mon. 3/28!

IMPORTANT REMINDER:

Mrs. Jarka and Holly Koedyker from LES are attending a workshop on High Ability Identification in April, along with a representatives from each building in Duneland. (LIS, WIS, CMS and CHS) They look to gain a lot more valuable information for narrowing in our high ability identification. Students will now be monitored at the end of each school year which is new. Next year there will be new students added, many will remain and some will be removed. It's pretty common, at this age, to have the flow "in and out" of a gifted program. I'm excited about the continuing progress of our high ability services. Not only is Duneland's High Ability identification becoming more spot on, but the new curriculum is geared towards meeting the needs of gifted children. We've also just purchased a new math curriculum that we'll be using at each grade level next year. I'm so very excited about the future of our program!

3rd graders Natalie, Aubrey and Amadeo

3.14.16 Rounding up to Infinity!

This week we talked about Pi day! Each student filled out a coloring sheet about their favorite circle candy, sports or games which a circle or sphere is used to play and how many flavors of pie can you name, etc! It was a fun topic to talk about.
Oh, and Happy Birthday Albert Einstein!

Kindergarten LA:

Welcome kindergarten parents! I will begin services with your kids on Monday's and Tuesday's each week from 10-10:30 am! I look forward to meeting each of them and keeping them challenged! I send out a weekly email that links you to this blog so you can see all the things we are learning about in my classroom. If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to email me!

Kindergarten Math:

Welcome kindergarten parents! I will begin services with your kids on Wednesday's and Thursday's each week from 10-10:30 am! I look forward to meeting each of them and keeping them challenged! I send out a weekly email that links you to this blog so you can see all the things we are learning about in my classroom. If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to email me!

First Grade Math:

This week we colored a worksheet and talked about Pi day. We also started a new project doing measurement. We had a lot of fun tracing and measuring how tall we are, how long are arms and legs are... we'll finish these up next week!

First Grade LA:

This week Emmersynn continued to work on the lesson Linking Letters. She decoded a Semaphore Ciper which was really hard! She read a few chapters in a book called Top Secret by J.R. Gardiner which is a 4.0 level book! We talked about different types of typeface which we'll begin a project about when we get back from spring break!

Second Grade Math:

This week we did a Pi day worksheet and talked about what Pi meant. We had a lot of interruptions with a 2nd grade library research project so we took some extra time to finish up our Sudoku packets and used the iPod's to practice math. Next week we will begin the Queen's Puzzle packets!

Second Grade LA:

This was a fun week! We had a wonky schedule Tuesday with the iRead testing and a 2nd grade research project but we still made it work! We took time to read our books and when we get back from spring break we will work on some mini book reports. Soon we'll pick a class book and have some guest readers come in! Any guesses who might stop by?!

Third Grade Math:

We have a few kids that are REALLY close to passing the 12's multiplication! Mr. Zeck said it was OK for us to have an ICE CREAM PARTY when the whole class finishes so really practice those math facts at home! For those who have already passed, we are beginning division! We finished up our % packets together and had a little time to do some math on our iPod's, a real treat!

Third Grade LA:

This week we watched the Pied Piper on Pi day! We also finished up writing our own fairy tales in our journals. I had so much fun reading them all, we have great creative writers! They've also been doing their best to write in cursive and their practice is paying off! They were all a little tired from the time change and all the testing so we took it a little easy this week. I handed back their Edmund Fitzgerald pictures to take home, we had many compliments on their art work! Next week we will begin a lesson about fairy tale grammar.

Fourth Grade Math:

First we worked on our Pi worksheet. Then we finished our role reversal presentations.

Olivia C. did a lesson on fractions by making Harry Potter's butter beer!
Olivia V. taught kids how to tell time with little clocks!
David taught kids how to do fractions using a slide show!
Gage taught measurement using Star Wars light sabers!
Jacob taught a Minecraft Math worksheet using the doc cam! Creepers!
Nick made up a cool multiplication and division puzzle worksheet!
Please see below for all the pictures, there are just too many!

Thank you so much to the parents who helped their kids complete this assignment from home by sending in packs of Hershey bars, butter beer, etc. The kids really knocked it out of the park, I'm so proud of them!

Fourth Grade LA

This week we worked out our lesson called Men and Women Who Changed the World. We dove into our books and began writing out our research and preparing for the presentations after spring break. We had a really wonky schedule on Tuesday so some of the kids were with me for more than an hour working away! I appreciate their hard work and love how they try to squeeze in as much HA time as possible!