75 Days!

HAPPY NEW YEAR to our BASES students, their Families and to All our Subscribers!  We have been at school for 75 DAYS! 

Our students translated that number to be,  in money terms:

3 quarters OR

7 dimes and 5 pennies OR

 7 dimes and 1 nickel OR

14 nickels and 5 pennies

In his school announcement before leaving for Christmas vacation, Mr. Hayes; our principal asked students to take some time to reflect on the work that they had accomplished thus far and reminded them to continue to show introspection by setting forth a plan to continue in the direction they would like in 2012.  I decided to pose similar questions to our BASES students.  They were asked,  “What have you learned in 75 days at school and what do you plan to do in the coming days at school?”

Students responded:

• I have learned to do hip-hop.  I plan to work at Playland.  By:  Alisha
• I have learned many cooking skills.  Just today I learned to make garlic bread.  I’ve also learned how to bake muffins.  I have learned lots of Math and multiplication on the chart.  I plan to work harder on my Reading Response.  By:  Jeena
• I have learned Math and adding money.  I plan to have more answers.  By:  Sukhjit
• I have learned to play songs with the guitar.  I plan to learn money and timetable.  By:  Maryam
• I have learned Dance.  I learned the lyrical, Hiphop and Jazzical for Dance.  I’ve learned lots of moves from the past year and I’m getting better at it.  I’ve learned Guitar.  I learned how to hold it and play certain songs.  I learned the frets.  I am certain that I will learn more by the end of the first semester.  I learned Math.  I learned all different kinds of stuff like money and the number chart.  I learned the timestable so I know how to do multiplication now.  I plan to learn more difficult stuff during the year.  By:   Janelle
• I have learned count money.  I plan to focus on learning say about Brandon.  By:  Brandon
• I have learned how to paint and I’m getting bette at it.  I plan to get better in Math and Reading.  By:  Jasmine
• I have learned to count money.  I plan to learn more about the wood shop, computers and electronics.  By: Jayden
• I have learned all about money.  I plan to count money.  By:  Melanie

There is so much eagerness to learn in our class. So far in 2012, the students have:

• begun choosing topics from our Journal Jar
• continued with our number line, money facts, computation and a new unit on reading menus and information on charts to answer Math questions
• students have chosen an Endangered Species for an individual project
• on Thursday, students cooked a Delicious meal of macaroni and cheese with cauliflower, garlic bread with strawberries and bananas for dessert

Events in the Coming Weeks:

• planning for our School Community Garden, with proceeds generously donated by our TERRIFIC PAC.  We are very excited to begin this project and plan to tend to it with a lot of BASES love and attention!
• the end of Semester 1 and the beginning of Semester 2! 

Written by:  Sue Fuller, BASES Teacher