Team and tower building

Look at the cool towers we built together while working in teams

Welcome Back Information

Welcome back to school!

Hope you had a  great relaxing fun filled summer break and are ready to start learning all the neat stuff in 5th grade.

Here are some important things for you and your family to know about:

1. Keep up with the happenings of our class through multiple multi-media sources. 
1. We have our class page at http://www.amphi.com/schools/nash/teacher-staff/rstevens.aspx
2. We have our class blog at http://nanooksonline.blogspot.com/
3. We have our class Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/NanooksOnline?ref=hl
4. We have our class Twitter page at https://twitter.com/NanooksOnline
5. We have a secure and safe learning environment in Edmodo at https://www.edmodo.com/
2. We have an email/messaging service that will send out messages, reminders, notices, and updates to you phone or email account.
1. You can sign up at https://www.remind.com/join/20142015na
3. You and your parents can contact Ms. Taylor-Stevens multiple ways
1. Through Facebook page, class blog, twitter account, and Edmodo 
2. Email at rstevens@amphi.com
3. Stop by class
4. Send a note
5. Leave phone message

You and your family are encouraged to check out all of these great communication resources for our class. Please sign up to use and follow as many of them as you can so that you can always keep up with what we are doing and never miss something important.

Also, please provide Ms. Taylor-Stevens with your contact information and how you would prefer to be contacted. Email is best for keeping the communication lines open, but we can work with any method that you need to use.

Thank you,

"If it is important to you, you will find a way. If not. . . you'll find an excuse."

Something new for this year. . . Classroom TWITTER

This year we will be using a new way to check our learning that includes learning about technology.

Classroom Twitter

We will write daily about what we learned, questions we have, things we still don't understand about, etc. 

We will do it in the form of a TWEET, like they do on Twitter.

We will have a Twitter feed.

And each week several of our Classroom Tweets will be chosen to be posted on the class's real Twitter account for the world to see what we are doing.

Nanooks Online @NanooksOnline

How cool is that! So come check it out.

Thank you,

"If it is important to you, you will find a way. If not. . . you'll find an excuse."

Classroom Setup Day 2-Setting up special things for this year.

After spending 4 hours and 45 minutes setting up yesterday, my daughter and I were back today working hard to get the classroom ready for the school year. Hope you all enjoy it.

Desks are ready

Groups are ready

Even have floater desks for working alone

   Bulletin Boards are Ready

Calendar is in a new place

Something new for this year

 Doors, cabinets, and some decorations are up

Bathroom sign out is READY!

Can the class READ 1,000 books this year?

Group materials are being put together

New Field Trip Lanyards

So stop by on Tuesday from 1-3 pm to meet the teacher and check out the classroom.

Thank you,

"If it is important to you, you will find a way. If not. . . you'll find an excuse."

2013-2014 Classroom Set Up Day 1

Today is the 1st day back in the classroom. It has come together very quickly.

Thank you,

"If it is important to you, you will find a way. If not. . . you'll find an excuse."

Follow along with the class as we spend a great year learning:

Nanooks Online Blog
http://nanooksonline.blogspot.com/

Nanooks Online Facebook page
https://www.facebook.com/NanooksOnline?ref=hl

Nanooks Online Twitter
https://twitter.com/NanooksOnline 


Thank you,

"If it is important to you, you will find a way. If not. . . you'll find an excuse."

2013-2014 Meet the Teacher

Please plan to stop by and meet your 2013-2014 teacher next Tuesday August 6, 2013 from 1-3 p.m.


Thank you,

"If it is important to you, you will find a way. If not. . . you'll find an excuse."

Getting to know each other on the 1st day of school

We started the year out with a cool activity. We spent the morning putting a puzzle together while getting to know our new classmates. 

We worked together to build this puzzle while building new friendships. Building new memories and friendships, what a great start to the year.

The bonds we made on this first day will help us to have the best year ever.

Like the completed puzzle, we are a complete class that takes care of each other and helps each other to learn everything we can.

This will be a great year of learning and growing.

Please join us this year. Follow along as we learn and grow together.

Thank you,

"If it is important to you, you will find a way. If not. . . you'll find an excuse."

Get Set

After an afternoon of working hard, the classroom is starting to come together.

Welcome to class (hallway)

New curtain to go with new theme "ROBOTS"

Adding color

Thank you,

"If it is important to you, you will find a way. If not. . . you'll find an excuse."

On Your Mark

Here is what the classroom looked like after summer break. Lots to do to get it ready by August 9th.

Classroom after summer break

Lots to do

Looks so big and empty

Thank you,

"If it is important to you, you will find a way. If not. . . you'll find an excuse."

1st Day of School

Welcome Nanooks to your 1st day of 5th grade.Today we learned about the construction on campus and how things would be different for the next couple of weeks.

We received out Social Studies books and got started learning right away. We even had a short quiz on what we had read.

The Expectation Assembly was really good. We learned about the character traits-trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, fairness, caring, and citizenship.

Our homework is to read for 30 minutes. Remember to get our parents to sign the paper saying we read and bring it back to school tomorrow.

Thank you,