Mrs. Ruiz’s Blog

I feel so blessed this school year!  I have gotten such positive feedback on my classroom from my students, their parents, and other teachers, that I am floored!  I hope all this positivity carries me through the school year!  I guess it is nice to find your hard work and effort is noticed!

I am very excited to be working with the group of students I have this year.  My 5th graders are very bright and well mannered.  They are outstanding role models for my 4th graders.  I am so pleased with my 4th graders too!  They are also very well mannered and handling being in the same room with 5th graders very well.  Both grade levels are working very well together, so much so that it is hard to remember who is a 4th grader!  They are all lovely children and I am glad to call them my class!  I am not sure how many actually read this, but I want to thank all the students, parents, and teachers who have been gracious enough to share there thoughts with me about this combination class. I take it all to heart and it definitely helps shape my teaching.  Thank you all!

P.S.  Feel free to comment to my blog so I know you are out there!

What a day!  We have continued our positive start to the school year.  We started off by looking at the calendar in DE streaming and found it was JK Rowling’s birthday!  So we read the related article and viewed a short movie on the fantasy genre.  The students really seemed to enjoy this and are looking forward to what tomorrow has in store!  I spoke to the class further about blogging and our SchoolBlog site, then they got to spend some time there responding to polls, answering my forum question about books and reading, uploading photos, and creating blog posts of their own choosing.  We also did some critical reading of a newspaper article selected by one of the table groups, we also discussed it as a class, and responded to it in writing.  Those were just some of the things we did today!