Color-A-Thon Signup for any interested parents

Our sign up is ready for our First Annual Color-A-Thon!
http://www.signupgenius.com/go/60b0c4eaca92cab9-1stcolorathon
Thanks to everyone that has already made this very successful! We'll keep plugging along!

Student Blog

Be sure to check out the link to the student blogs above! Don't hesitate to leave comments on your child's blog! Enjoy!

Five Elements of a Story

Check out the Flocabulary video that will be introduced in class tomorrow to help remind the students about the five elements of a story.

https://www.flocabulary.com/fivethings/

Creek Social Event!

Creek Social Event!
Sponsored by the Creek PTO
Saturday, September 27th from 6:00-8:00pm
Stoney Point YMCA
300 Stoney Point Rd SW, Cedar Rapids

$6 per student, please pay at the Creek Office by Sept. 25th
Sorry NO refunds
CREEK Students only
Please bring swim suit and towel if you plan on swimming.

Parents not required to stay but ***Chaperones are needed***
Any help is appreciated even if you can only stay for an hour!
Please contact Brooke Arp to help or with questions:
mail4brooke@gmail.com

Many activities to choose from! Gymnasium full of activities, pool (limited students per hour), Party room of games! DOOR PRIZES!!!
Vending machines available for snacks and drinks (accepts $1 bills and change only!).

Tiger Rising

We are currently reading the book, Tiger Rising by Kate DiCamillo. The book makes references to putting feelings, emotions, thoughts in a suitcase and keeping it there. Rob constantly is holding back from opening his suitcase. He makes a new friend, Sistine that starts to open this suitcase. When Rob gets hurt, he reminds himself to keep the suitcase closed. This week, we will find out more information about the tiger aspect of the story and if Rob decides to tell Sistine about his new work with the tiger.

Heading out by Gloria Kamen

Very excited to have received this book in the mail. 24 influential people's biographies are briefly explained in this book. The story will be great to use for writing, reading, speaking and listening in the classroom! I think the students will truly enjoy the stories. I did when I attended the Write Tools Training and the instructor presented it to us.

Color-A-Thon Collection

Calling all collections for Color-A-Thon! They are due September 25th!

Most Unique Door Decoration

Congratulations to Ms. Danielsen's Homeroom for having the most unique door of 6th grade!

DaBomb Broom

Keep up the good work in the hallway! DaBomb Broom was awarded to Manternach's homeroom for cleanliness and following hallway expectations!

Pajama Day!

Sleep in an extra five minutes because it is Pajama day on Wednesday, September 10th!

Literacy Night TONIGHT!

Tonight is the night! Come check out Literacy night with your family! Bookies and milk, a free book for the student, parent information about literacy! Come and enjoy a night about literacy from 5-7 p.m. at Creek!

Literary Devices

Currently the students are working on literary devices. They are learning the language. Tomorrow, they will dive deeper with similes. Check out how literary devices are in pop culture today.

Literacy Night

Be sure to mark your calendars for Literacy Night next Tuesday night!

Fabulous First Three Days of School

We had a great first three days of school! The students worked a lot on common area expectations and also expectations in the classroom. Ask them to share with you information about SOAR and Channel 14 news team! This coming week, we will have a formative assessment on citing textual evidence and summarizing story elements. So far, they have worked on the exposition of the literature. The exposition includes the setting and characters in the text. Looking forward to another great day tomorrow!

First Day of School Excitement

I was very excited for my first day of school back then and still excited for my first of school tomorrow!

Can't wait for all our students to be back in our classroom! Check out our back to school letter!

New Creek Principal

New Principal, John Nettyhttp://www.prairiepride.org/creek/index.php

Be sure to check out the information on the new Creek principal!

School Supply List 2014-2015

http://www.prairiepride.org/creek/procedures/14_15_sl_pci.pdf

Confused on the school supply list?! You should be! But the list is actually the exact same for returning and new students!

Summertime Cheer

I have had so many opportunities to learn this summer and I am excited to bring it into the class! I attended a 2-day workshop in Des Moines, Our Kids. It reminded all of us that each of the students we have are ours and we need to treat them with respect. I also attended a Standards Based Grading workshop for two days that really helped me understand how grading should be done! I can't wait to share my new knowledge with the rest of the teachers! I attended a Diversity class for three days that made me think outside the box a lot. Also, I started a graduate course, Introduction to Graduate Study and Research. For my research, I am looking into the effects of spelling. I know that has been a question that a lot of parents are asking so I am diving deeper into that topic! I am also a part of the new PBIS program that will be introduced this year at Creek. Finally, I am attending in August the Write Tools workshop! I have had one educational and positive summer. Look forward to sharing with you in August what we will be doing!

Zebra Forest book introduction

Check out the video to see if this is a book that interests you!