Mitchell's Fall Goals

Academic Goal: I will get better at cursive. Behavioral Goal: I will clip up to good day. Personal Goal: I will sell all of my coupon books.

Benito's Fall Goals

Academic: I want to have a 5th Grade Reading Level Behavioral: I will get along with others Personal: I will get better at football

NDSU Free Family EVent!

NDSU Department of Animal Sciences Proudly Presents Saturday, September 14, 2013 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. NDSU Equine Center 5140 19th Ave North, Fargo FREE family event! Rain or shine Meet the animals that call NDSU home, taste ice cream and BBQ Bootcamp samplers, see cows being milked, horsemanship demonstrations, sheep shearing, wool spinning and MUCH more! For more information call 231-9611 or visit www.ag.ndsu.edu/ansc/news-events

PTA Fundraiser

Today is the day of our PTA Fundraiser Kick Off! At 2:05 today the students will go to an assembly to learn about the fundraiser! We will be sending Fundraiser packets home. The fundraiser ends Wednesday, September 25th, so all unsold books as well as all money collected needs to be turned in at that time. Help Support Westside Elementary School PTA with this fundraiser! It's as easy as 1-2-3! 1. Purchase a coupon book for you and your family and use the coupons right away. All yellow coupons in the coupon book are 100% Free, over a $250 value. 2. Show and Sell the coupon books to your family and friends. They will enjoy saving money too! $2,000 total value for only $20! 3. Win Prizes! Sell 1 or more coupon books to Win Great Prizes! 2 Students in your school will win eXtreme Prizes! (See the enclosed sheet with your child's fundraiser books!) Plus...Sell 7 books by: Monday, September 9th and get registered to win a: 3 Channel Metal Indoor Co-Axial RC Helicopter! Reminder Fundraiser is available through Wednesday, September 25th. Students can pick up more books after they have sold the 7 they have in their packet and turn in their money for those books! Our classroom goal is 100 Coupon books! After meeting that goa, we will earn a FREE PIZZA PARTY! Happy FUNDRAISING!

Book Orders

I will be sending book orders home at the beginning of each month along with our monthly calendar! There are a wide variety of books available in the different catalogs that I send home ranging from $1-$20+ with tons of different topics and interest levels. If your child wants to order a book, but isn't finding one in the catalog, be sure to visit www.scholastic.com/bookclubs and search different topics or authors to see what more is available. Books can be ordered online SO easily and every time you order online, you receive a $5 off coupon for your next online purchase for the following month! Our class also receives $3 in books free for every online order, plus points from every dollar spent to order more books for our classroom library! If you choose to order online, you can link in with our class by using the code: KWYLK Thanks for your support & happy reading!

Student Council Representatives 2013-2014

Congratulations to Zaylea & Max for becoming our 2013-2014 Student Council Representatives! So many students in our classroom ran for Student Council! I am proud of each and every one of them and cannot wait for Max and Zaylea to represent our classroom! Way 2 Go!

Behavior Chart

Each evening I try to post the students names that went above the line to Good Day-Great Job-Outstanding-Super Oustanding on our behavior chart onto the STUDENT RECOGNITION page on the blog. If you are reading this on a phone right now you might see a white bar near the top of the page under "Mrs. Steinbrink's 3rd Grade Class! You should be able to click on "What's going on in room 303?" and change it to any other page on the blog. I haven't updated them all yet from last year, but I have begun to add names to the Student Recognition Page. If you are on a computer, the list of 'pages' is on the left hand side: click STUDENT RECOGNITION. Ask you child to explain our behavior chart and ask them how they earn rewards in our classroom. I hope that my explanation isn't too confusing! :) And, today was anothe great day! I showed the students what our new keyboarding program will look like as well as book adventure--a place where we can take quizzes on books that we read. We reviewed routines and practiced positive behaviors. We also did a few beginning of the year assessments!