No More Bullying

Abbey's 5th grade class wrote and created a No More Bullying presentation as part of their social studies unit on building community and discovering similarities and differences among kids.  What they found, all kids have feelings, all kids have emotions, and that kids are a lot alike on the inside and more different on the outside.  Some kids wrote letters to a bully, some kids created a rap, and some kids recited lyrics from popular songs....Abbey recited the lyrics to Taylor Swift's song, "Mean."  Abbey played the teacher in a skit the students wrote and sang in several songs performed by the entire grade level.  I'm so proud of her and all the students for raising awareness about bullying in school.

Miss America & Wii Dancer

With costumes on, Skyping Omie and Papa Dave in CA.

 

In full costume, and ready to go!

Flashback Friday

This is Abbey’s favorite teacher, Mrs. Bauman-Hill: 3rd Grade at Swift Creek Elementary.  Abbey really wanted to have her over for dinner, and her coming meant so much to Abbey.  Her children are adorable and so funny, all the kids had a great time. 

Here are Abbey’s Top 10 reasons why Mrs. Bauman-Hill is/was her favorite teacher:

1. She made everything fun.

2. Morning meetings were fun & she had interesting activities, we would laugh a lot during morning meeting and it made the day fun.

3. She was very encouraging.

4. In math, she showed us fun strategies and different ways to figure a problem.

5. She had high expectations for learning and behavior and never yelled.

6. We had a picnic with all the 3rd graders.

7. We learned to square dance on Pioneer Day and other pioneer games.

8. We did LOTS of hands-on activities.

9. She didn’t stress us out about the EOG’s.

10. She would always give us compliments.

Flashback Friday

I caught a glimpse of Kelsey & Abbey in the swing and had to snap this shot…Abbey refers to this as “camera love” and tells us not to mistake it for the real thing!!! OK, Abbey, whatever!