Mr. Lake's Class

Synergy News

Friday September 21, 2012

NEWS
It was great to see many of you last Wednesday at curriculum night. The Synergy teachers spent over an hour explaining the different curriculum that we use to teach the different core subjects. Ms. Ashford also used the smart board to teach us where to find different things on the schools and teams websites. A great resource is found at the bottom of the Synergy team home page, the Parent & Student information Wiki .

We had our first Swarm Party last week. Allen Brook is one of the many schools throughout the nation that use Positive Behavior Intervention and Supports (PBIS). This is a school wide system that helps support positive behaviors throughout the school. Each time a student is “caught” following the 3 Bee’s, being kind, being responsible, or being safe an adult can give them a warm buzzy. The warm buzzies are then collected in each classroom in a honey jar. Once the classroom jars are full they are delivered to the office and placed in the beehive. Once the beehive is full then we have an all school celebration, the Swarm Party. The Swarm Party was a huge success with dancing, singing and recognizing the amazing job the students have done so far this year.

We are fortunate enough to have 60 I-pads at Allen Brook. Last week our class got to use them twice. The first time we used them during our Foundations time. We utilized an App that has the students writing words and letters using the proper letter formation techniques. It is an amazing resource to that only allows students to form the letters in the correct manner. We also got to use a whole cart of 30 I-pads on Tuesday morning during explore time. Students were looking at the statue of liberty on Google Earth, seeing what constellations were above us with Star Finder and many things were created with the Paint app. We are all looking forward to using the I-pads more throughout the year! Also please see the photos on the blog which were all taken by the students on the I-Pads.

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