Brummitt's High Ability Blog Spot: Welcome Summer! Goodbye 2015-2016 School Year!

Well we have completed another year here in high ability, this is my last post for the year and I am really sad that the year is over. I have loved getting the honor of teaching your children this year. They are all such great students and they are always so excited to come to class to learn and explore. I have had such a great year teaching them all. I will miss them and will miss all the fun we had this year.

They all work so hard each week to learn the material and concepts. They are a great bunch of kids and always make the classes so interesting and entertaining.

I also sent each student home with a little summer survival kit. I hope they like them. It contains a book and other cool stuff for them to use over the summer. Each grade will have different things.

Thank you for the honor and opportunity to work with your children each week, I will truly miss them. I wish all my students an excellent summer full of adventure and learning. Go see all there is out there to explore. Now, on to all that has happened this week here at Brummitt.

The One School One Book is in full swing with so many great activities and fun in the classrooms. Every class was rushing to answer the pop quiz questions that Mr. Cammarata would ask over the P.A. each day. I can say I think all the students have done a great job figuring out the answers quickly. I know all the students are so excited each day to talk about the book and what is happening.

Who will win this Lemonade War? Will Evan pull it off or will Jesse find a way to win? I know I am really excited to keep reading to find out. I also can’t wait to see who here at Brummitt will have the best lemonade.

Remember that Fridays are the Student Council Spirit Days so be sure to wear those school colors.

Important May Dates:

26^th Autograph Signing Day- Bring your yearbook to school!

27^th Brummitt Field Day!

30^th No School- Memorial Day!

June 2^nd Last Day of School

This week we continued learning about our Life Skills with Cooperation. I think that this one is great for the end of the year. All students need to learn to cooperate with each other every day in school and at home. They all need to learn to work as a team to reach their common goals.

I think this year almost all of my students have done their very best to succeed in any group projects and activities. They all want to do their best and make sure to work together as a team to get there. I am so proud at all they have accomplished working and cooperating with each other. They all know how important it is every day in every way. Great job this year kids.

Idiom of the Week

An Idiom is an expression whose meaning is not predictable from the usual meanings of its constituent elements. This week’s was …. The cat’s got her tongue. We all got a huge laugh from this one because of the great illustration. We talked about times when we might not want to talk about something in class. They all really could relate to this one. Well I had no takers on drawing or finding a picture for the last idiom. I think the students really liked this and it gave us something to talk about each week which made us all laugh.

Language Arts

Kindergarten:

This week we finished up our lesson on a great book called Wimberley Worried. We talked about the characters and made connections to people in our own lives. We also answered the four levels of questioning and took time to create our fun video that will be up on the blog next week.

We have had so much fun this spring learning about connections and why they are so important. I think that this will help us our on journey next fall.

First Grade:

This week we only got to meet one day because of a special project they were doing with the kindergarten classes. On Tuesday the students got to talk about their Wordles and why they picked their words to describe themselves. It was fun to hear the reasons why they used specific adjectives. We also took time to create our final video. They were so excited to create their own movie trailer. They worked really hard to make it the best. I hope you all love it. On Tuesday we talked about all the connections we have learned about this year. The students discussed what they liked about class and we talked about summer plans. They all got their summer survival kits.

Second Grade:

On Monday some of the students had to finish their testing and weren’t able to come to class. So Jackson and I had an impromptu to I-Pad day. We practiced math facts and challenged each other to fun matches. We also discussed the plans for the movie trailer. On Tuesday we got to work on the movie trailer and finished it all up. The students had so much fun planning and working on it. We had a little time at the end of the class and they wanted to use the I-Pads. I let them face off for one game and they had so much fun. They all got to take home their summer survival kits. I hope they all like their books.

Third Grade:

This week the students got to create their own movie trailers. They broke into groups and got to use the I-Pads to create a video. I let them use all their creativity to come up with a concept and then film it. They used all their team work skills to create some great work. I will be posting them all on the blog at the beginning of next week once I get everything up loaded. They all got to use the life skill of cooperation while working on their movie trailers.

Fourth Grade:

This week the students continued their partner writing projects. The group that was already finished got to work on a video for the class. They filmed the kids working on their projects and created a cool video. Not all the groups got done with their books.

I told them they can finish it on their own and I will make copies of it for them once they finish. I will be in and out of my classroom for the last two weeks of school and they will be able to get it to me. I am glad they want to work so hard to create something of their own. I will miss them next year. They also got their summer survival kits.