Grand View Elementary
October 18, 2018 • Issue 26
Upcoming Events
October 22 - 25: Red Ribbon Week
October 23: Flu Shots at Grand View Elementary
October 26: Teacher's Inservice
November 13: School Board Meeting, 1:00 pm
November 19 - 22: Thanksgiving Break
November 30: Teacher's Inservice
Grand View Elementary Math Night
Principal's Corner
Grand View Families,
On my drive home last week, I heard a story on the radio. While traveling in South America, the narrator explained, he saw that everyone loved to eat chili peppers. In fact, everyone prefered chili peppers, choosing to put them in just about everything they eat. Watching more closely, he noticed that the young children, those two to five years old, didn’t like the chili peppers. They would cry and spit out the food. But somewhere around age five, the children magically begin to enjoy and even choose to put chili pepper in everything they eat. What occurs at this magical moment between two and five, he wondered. Why is it that doing something unpleasant, eating a hot pepper, becomes a preferred activity of nearly everyone in this culture? The answer, he found, was in the experiences these children have over and over again when they eat a meal with their family. At each meal, eating the hot peppers gave the children a sense of belonging. Doing what every adult and older child was doing made them a part of the family and culture. Also, eating the food with hot peppers gave them nourishment and energy. Because the good, belonging and nourishment, was consistently paired with the bad, hot peppers, children began to accept and eventually prefer to eat hot chili peppers.
When we talk about “grit” with students, we often want to say that they just need to try harder, or just not give up. But, like the story of hot peppers, we need to show our children every day that doing what is initially difficult will result in success. Just like the children in the story, the ‘magic’ will occur when we give students the tools and encouragement to persist through struggle and learn every day.
Thank you for encouraging your students to show grit when they struggle to learn. One way to help your child show grit this month is to make the positive benefits of persisting in learning obvious. Point out the times you see your student reach success after using grit.
Sincerely,
Josh Noteboom
Red Ribbon Week
Wear sweatpants, sweatshirts, or jogging suits.
Tuesday, October 23rd: "Don't be CRAZY, stay away from drugs!"
Wear crazy socks, hair, or clothing.
Wednesday, October 24th: "Have SPIRIT, be drug free!"
Wear green and gold to show your pride for our schools.
Thursday, October 25th: "Just say NO!"
Wear red.
We will be weaving the “RED RIBBON” through Grand View on Thursday, October 25th at approximately 12:40 pm. If you do not wish for your child to participate, please contact their teacher.
Caught Using Kelso's Choices!
Ashlin and Bryllie not pictured.
Classroom Corner
Mrs. Draper (Preschool): We have now attended our 15th day of PreK! We are on the letter Ee and the number 3 in our learning. Thank you to our parents for helping us with our PBL: letter of the week animal pages. Our Animal Alphabet Books are beginning to take shape and we are enjoying sharing with each other what we are learning.
Ms. Davis (Kindergarten): In Kindergarten we have started working on addition through 10. We are also beginning to blend our letters into cvc and ccvc words to help with our emerging reading. Every week we have a different "independent readers" that we read as a group, with buddies, and by ourselves. It has been very exciting to see our reading growth take off! Last week we finished up our interviews for our PBL and this week we are beginning to build "our community." We are very excited about this project!
Ms. Baker (First/Second): We have begun our PBL unit on economics and businesses and are so excited! We are earning money through classroom jobs and assignments. Our business groups have been brainstorming products and services that they can sell to the other students in our school. In 1st grade reading we are continuing to develop fluency by studying phonics patterns. The next couple weeks we will be focusing on words that have the Magic E in them. In math we are beginning to look at what place value is and how we can use it to solve more complex equations.
Mrs. Dalrymple (Second Core): The second graders have been using a ton of grit while learning place value, and using place value to add and subtract three-digit numbers. We are also working hard to increase our math fact fluency. Practicing flashcards would be a great thing to practice at home. In reading, we are learning a variety of skills to build understanding what we are reading. Our current unit revolves around how animals adapt to their habitats and survive from the threat of predators. We are also working hard on alphabetical order to the 2nd and 3rd letter of words. It has been a month of grit and perseverance!
Student Spotlight
Each newsletter, fifth grade students are going to pick one
primary student to interview for our Student Spotlight!
What is your name?
Daniel
What class are you in?
Daniel is in Ms. Davis' kindergarten class.
What is your favorite subject in school?
Daniel's favorite subject is P.E.
Do you have a favorite book?
Daniel does not have a favorite book.
What is your go-to Kelso's Choice for small problems and why?
Daniel likes Tell Them to Stop, because its easy to say to them.
Do you have a hidden talent? If so, what is it?
Daniel does not have a hidden talent.
Written by Clayd
Picture by Clayd
Student Spotlight
Each newsletter, fifth grade students are going to pick one
upper elementary student to interview for our Student Spotlight!
What is your name?
Oakley
What class are you in?
Oakley is in Mrs.spiering's 3rd grade class.
What is your favorite subject in school?
Oakley's favorite subject is P.E
Do you have a favorite book?
Oakley does not have a favorite book.
What is your go-to Kelso's Choice for small problems and why?
Oakley likes Walk Away, because if someone is being rude to her she can just walk away.
Do you have a hidden talent? If so, what is it?
Oakley does not have a hidden talent.
Written by Morgan
Picture by Morgan
At Home
This year, our students will be learning about Character Education from Kelso's Choice Wheel. Kelso the frog teaches students how to solve "small" problems on their own. "Small" problems include conflicts that cause "small" feelings of annoyance, embarrassment, boredom, and so on. "BIG" problems always need to be taken to an adult. These are situations that are scary, dangerous, illegal, etc.
One way students are learning to solve "small" problems is by making a deal. Kids deal with conflict by deciding to find a compromise, or a way that both parties can get what they would like. Kids can do this by flipping a coin, playing rock paper scissors, or any other way that they can make a deal.
What are some ways you can talk to your kids at home about Kelso's Choices?
- Review Kelso’s Choice, Make a Deal. Remind students that by Making a Deal, they will lose a little but gain a lot.
- Ask students to recall the last time they used or the last time they saw someone else use Make a Deal.
- Ask kids what are some ways they have seen Make a deal work or they have tried to Make a Deal.
About Us
Email: jnoteboom@sd365.us
Website: www.sd365.us
Location: 205 1st Street, Grand View, ID 83624, United States
Phone: (208) 834-2775
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BruneauGrandView/