BRONCO vs. VANDAL Week DOOR Decorating

Our wonderful reading class did a great job designing and decorating our door for the week. We are hoping for the win! Go Broncos! 

This whole week is to get kids excited about college, an school. All teachers decorated their door to represent the school they went to.

Parent/Teacher Conferences!

Parent/Teacher Conferences are this week. I would love to get to meet with you all. Each student will receive 10 extras credit points in my class if I meet with a parent.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28 from 4:00pm-7:00pm

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29 from 7:00am-11:00am 

Looking forward to seeing you here! Happy Halloween!

The Wright Brother's Inspire Paper Airplanes

 After reading a story about the Wright Brothers creating the first airplane. We decided to try and create our own airplanes from paper. We had a contest to see whose plane flew the farthest.  Eberto was our winner. They all had a blast creating and flying planes after a hard week of work and studying the Wright Brothers. The large plane was created by all students in Mrs. Schneider's Reading and English classes. This airplane will be displayed for many years to come.

EXTRA CREDIT OPPORTUNITIES

Reading/English  Visit the following website, Spelling City enter your spelling words for the week. Practice the spelling words, get taught the spelling words, and play games. To recieve extra credit, you can play a game then print or email me the results. If that is not an option you can write a paragraph about the games you played and how it helped you understand and learn your spelling words for the week.

Pre-Algebra Go to this website Gamequarium, select one of the following topics we have already covered in class. Your options are Absolute Value, Comparing Integers, Adding Integers, Subtracting Integers, Multiplying Integers, or Dividing Integers. Play the game for at least 15minutes. Then write a paragraph response about what you learned and how this helped or did not help your pre-algebra skills. Remember a paragraph is four to five well written sentences.

Social Studies  Visit the Channel One News Website explore the website and look for an interseting article about current events. Read the article and write a parargraph summary of the artice you read. Be sure to add the web address of the article to site your source. Remember a paragraph is four to five well written sentences.

Have fun with these online extra credit oprtunities. Please email any questions or ask in class. 
 ***All Extra Credit is Due to Mrs. Schneider in class or by email by FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17th. Email is kschneider@caldwellschools.org.***

Social Studies HEMISPHERES

The Social Studies class got in groups of three and had to create one of the four hemispheres, making sure to label all continents, important lines: equator and prime meridian, as well as oceans. They worked great and groups and had a lot of fun creating their little part of the world. (Northern Hemisphere will be posted soon).

Pre-Algebra Students Adding Integers

Our Pre-Algebra class adding integers with cubes. They did a great job and had tons of fun using manipulatives to figure out adding positive and negative numbers.

Room 107 Class Puzzle

Each student was given a puzzle piece to color and show a little about themselves. Then as a class they were able to put the whole puzzle together. They did an amazing job working together as a group to create one awesome final product. 

Get to know Mrs. Schneider

Scott & I cutting the cake at our wedding

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Hello All! Welcome to our class blog. Let me start by introducing myself. My name is Kaylyn Schneider and I teach 6th grade at Jefferson Middle School in Caldwell, Idaho. I love my job. This school year 2010-2011, is going to be a great one. I am so excited to teach and get to know all my new students. This last summer I married a wonderful man, his name is Scott. Previously I was Miss Brennan but now I proudly go by Mrs. Schneider. 

Reading a book for a masters class.

A little about my life. I was born in Weiser, Idaho but raised in Boise from the age of seven on. I have the most wonderful parents that are still happily married 27 years later. I went to Catholic Schools from third grade through high school. from high school I started college in Coeur d' Alene, Idaho at North Idaho College. After two years at NIC, I finished my bachelors degree at Boise State University. I have been teaching sixth grade for two years and love it. I am also a cross country and track coach at the middle school I teach. I am now attending NNU to receive a masters degree in education.

My passion for teaching is obvious in the way I carry myself as a teacher. My father is a very respected teacher and coach, watching my dad as a young girl I realized the impact he had on his students and athletes, this was inspiring to me. He had a way of teaching children the subject but more importantly about how to live life to the fullest and make the best choices. He has his football players carry around a small rock that says "W.I.N" this important three letter word stands for a much more important phrase, "What's Important Now." This rock is a constant reminder to the kids for making the right choices always. This is a small think my dad has taught many kids but it inspires them into college and life. I want to be that teacher, like my dad that gives kids a reason to learn and a purpose. The little voice in their head saying "W.I.N." in tough situations.

My passion for teaching comes from more than just my dad and his inspiration. As a student from third to eighth grade I was bullied but my peers. The victim of very mean bullies. I was called names, pushed down and drug through mud, along with countless other wrong things. One of my goals as a teacher is to never let a student go through or feel the way I felt at school, scared. My experience as an elementary and middle school student was not positive but if I can use my experience to help my students look at school as a positive place, I have done my job.

Welcome to our BLOG!

Welcome All students and Parents!

This will be our one going blog for the following school year. Here I will post fun activities and pictures of things that are happening in our class. I hope you enjoy what you learn. Go COUGARS!