Panchito is Ready to Learn

He crawled up in the backpack and he's ready for school!

Kids Night Out-Part One

Building a snowman.

Counting Jar with Ms. Schroeder

Today kinder kiddos showed me how they group objects and subatize.  Many were able to explain their thinking and share the correct answer.  

Persuasive Papers

Today in Mr. D's class the 4th graders wrote essays about whether or not to wear uniforms at school.  They used persuasion in their writing.  Thanks for sharing with me!

Author's Chair - First Grade

I visited Mr. Tifft, and wow did I see some creative writers.  I highlighted 2 students that sat in the Author's chair and read to their peers.  Thank you Maggie and Bruno.

Kindergarten Number Sense

Ms.Schroeder's kiddos practiced representing numbers today.  I sat with Petra and she shared her work with me.  She "grabbed" some items and counted them.  Then she represented her thinking with this work.  Way to go Petra!

Predator Prey - First Grade

Students in First Grade (Mr Shoe's Class) acted out the white tail deer/wolf habitat today.  I had a blast pretending I was hunting deer.  It was a great opportunity to be in the "outdoor classroom" and learning about our science standards.

3rd Grade Research

Third grader, Irene, sharing her research assignment with me.  I saw many examples of descriptive writing, like this, in Ms Serrano's class.  There is so much to learn about biomes.  Way to go!

Kindergarten Art

Students in Ms Vetters class drawing themselves using curved lines.

Fall Dinner

Great Turnout!  Great food, great people, great evening!!!  Thanks Northrop Community!

Give to the Max!

You can still donate!!  https://givemn.org/organization/Northropurbanenviromentalpta

Ms. Stoneburg's Kinder Color Parade

Room 116 has been showing Northrop Pride by participating in a Color Parade.  Today I stopped by the classroom to show the students my purple dress and purple shoes.  I sure got a treat today!  The class invited me to read the book Harold and the Purple Crayon and then take part in the class cheer.  Six friendly kinder kiddos were chosen to spell the word purple and the whole class taught me the cheer!  It was a great day for me in Room 116!!

Room 116 - Color Parade (Purple)

Predator Prey -Widji

Students will be playing Predator Prey for the last hours of our time at Widji!!

Widji Night 2

Dip Sauna Dip

Farewell Widji

Student/Staff Selfie

Night Rotations -Widji

Quiz Bowl, Wolf Talk, Dip Sauna Dip and reflect on the trip.....

Cabin West Wind -Widji

The boys are taking all they learned and putting it their journal.  Hard at work with illustrations and all.

Widji- we made it!

Time to eat.

We made a video...Widji Rest Area

Mah NA mah NA!

http://youtu.be/KWK_BxDxZss

We depart! Widji

Bus leaves the curb at 8:20....5 hours on the road.

Pit Stop #1

It is 11:45am, we have made it to the Eveleth, MN Rest Area

.  Here we will get out, stretch, eat a quick lunch and get back on the road to Widji!

Spirit Week - Hat Day

Spirt Week!!  We celebrated the last week of quarter one with fun filled spirit days.  We set academic goals, completed benchmarks and created communities within our classrooms.  Check out the pictures of staff and students that participated in these spirit days.

HAT DAY!

4th Grade Movie Night

What an amazing turnout for 4th grade movie night.  Families joined together in the Northrop Gym for a viewing of Muppets Most Wanted.  Three hundred and thirty three people attended movie night with a profit of over $1300 to put toward our Widji Trip.  Thank you families for your support.

ESL Exit Ceremony

Congratulations to the students in our ELL (English Language Learner) program.  They have worked hard on their English skills and have officially 'exited' the program. These students are proficient in their skills of reading, writing, listening and speaking in the English language.  English is a second language for most of our ELL students and for some it is their 3rd or 4th language.  These students should be proud of their of their multi-lingual status...WE ARE!

Stacy Severson & Rachel Kastor with our ELL Graduates.

Walk-A-Thon 2014

I participated in my first Northrop Walk-A-Thon.  Although it was difficult to postpone the original date, I'm so happy everyone was flexible to make the change.  We had a beautiful day.  All Northrop classrooms had to opportunity to walk to Minnehaha Falls to see the sights and sounds of our beautiful community.  I've put my pictures of the day into a slideshow for all to enjoy.  Thank you PTA for providing snacks as we arrived at the falls.  We raised well over our goal of $5000.00 - Way to go.  Thank you staff for providing engaging instruction all along the way to the falls.  I can't wait for our next community event.

 http://youtu.be/Ih169mWXT7s

Northrop Weeks 1-2-3

Morning Greetings.

Pledge to dream big.

Northrop gardens.

Kinder Kiddo Tours.
Meet Panchito.

Playground Fun!

Bus Safety Week.

My Blog

Hello Northrop Community:  This is the start of my blog.  There are so many wonderful things happening in and around Northrop that I would love to send out photos, videos and 'woot woots' regarding all the adventures.  My first few posts will be 'look backs' to September and October events.  After that, the goal will be on time posts.  ENJOY!