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Showing posts with label Social Studies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Social Studies. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 27, 2016

Class Offices

Elected Positions

President – This student is the class leader. This student will be responsible for helping with important tasks around the classroom. This student will also be important for when we have guest teachers and subs. The job will require that they show guest around and help them with class rules and procedures. Finally, this student will run any votes we might have in the classroom as they become necessary.

Vice President – This student is second in command. They will assist the President with the job as described above. They will also fill in when the President is not in class or at school.

Chief of Staff – These two students are the classroom assistants. Their main job description is to help with different things that have come up in the classroom. This might include stuffing Monday Folders, grading, or passing back papers for mailboxes and cubbies. These students play a major role in the day to day operation in the classroom.

Attorney General – This student or students is responsible for distributing the consequences or fines for those students who have broken a class rule. This student must be fair and respectful.

Secretary of the Treasury – One student will be in charge of the class money. They will be responsible for pay students on payday as well as collecting fines for students that have broken a class rule. This student should have good counting skills and be responsible and trustworthy.

Secretary of Commerce – This job will be the responsibility of one student. They will manage the class store this includes ordering and stocking the merchandise. This student must have good math skills and be able to create an inventory that is respectful to all the students in class.

Non-Elected Positions

Secretary of Health and Human Services – This job will require two students to be in charge of the playground equipment. Students will be responsible for checking in and checking out the equipment. This jobs has a possible salary of twenty dollars a week.

Ambassador of Trade – This job will be the responsibility of two to three students. They will be in charge of checking books in and out of the class library and making sure students take reading quizzes. They will also be responsible for make sure the class library is neat and organized. This job has a possible salary of thirty-five dollars.

Secretary of Housing and Urban Development – This job will require two students to make sure the classroom is neat and organized before students go home. They will be in charge of classroom pick up at the end of the day. This job will have a possible salary of twenty dollars a week.

Secretary of State – This student is in charge of keeping the teacher’s state of mind in good shape. They will be in charge of keeping time, reminders and what ever else is need to keep the teacher going. This job has a possible salary of thirty dollars a week.

Secretary of Homeland Security – These three students will be in charge of the line. They will make sure that students follow the proper school rules when walking around the school. This has a possible salary of thirty-five dollars a week.

Press Secretary – These two students will be in charge of taking pictures during class events. They will also create flyers and posters for things around class. This job has a possible salary of twenty dollars a week with possible bonus later in the year.

Secretary of the Interior – These two students are responsible for the in-class technology. The possible salary for this job is thirty dollars a week.

Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (E.P.A.) – This job will require students to take the recycling down when needed. This job has a salary of twenty dollars a week.


Secretary of Education – These two to three students will help with setting up project and different educational tasks around the classroom. This job will require a lot of work and therefore will have a possible salary of fifty dollars a week.

Friday, October 9, 2015

Candidate Speeches and Photos

Photos
(click on the picture to view the album)

President


Vice President


Chief of Staff


Secretary of the Treasury


Secretary of Commerce


Attorney General

Sunday, May 17, 2015

Update for May 17th

Happy Sunday,

It is hard to believe that there are only three weeks left in the school year.  That does translate to 13 days and a lot is happening in Room Echo and at STREAM. 

California Mission Project
This week students will be working on their Slide Show and Video or Animation presentations that are due on Friday, May 22nd.  Check in with your student to see how they are progressing.  These can be accessed at home via their Google Account.

Rough drafts of the Mission Project Report will be returned to the students to complete for their final report that is due on Friday, May 28th.

On June 1st and 2nd students will be presenting their Mission Projects.  This week they will have the opportunity to select which day they will present.  Parents are invited and encouraged to attend their student’s presentation.  A schedule of presentation times will be forthcoming.

Last Day of School Activities
A school wide earned party will be hosted by STREAM on the last day of school, Thursday, June 4th.  Details are still in the works but it will be a day of fun and celebration.  As mentioned this is an earned event.  Students must maintain attendance, classroom participation, behavioral, and academic expectations to attend. 

I am also looking for parents to organize and help with a classroom lunch on the last day of school.  Please email me if you would like to help.

Odds and Ends
I hope you have had the opportunity to take a look at the classroom garden.  It is growing nicely thanks to the students taking on the daily responsibilities of maintaining the garden and plants. 

Next week on Wednesday, May 27th, Room Echo students will participate in a Skype phone call with the developers of our Handouts application.  Students will be able to speak to the developers asking questions about the program and giving the developers their feedback on ideas and changes they would like to see to the program. 

Two summer camps are being offered at STREAM for STREAM students this summer.  A MythBuster Science Camp will be offered from June 15th through June 26th and a Lego Robotics Camp from June 29th through June 3rd.  Enrollment forms have been sent home with your students and are also available in the office.  Please note that space is limited in both of these camps.

The final two Track My Progress Tests will be taken this week with the results on their report cards.

This is also the last week of Genius Hour.

Important Calendar of Events – Please keep handy for your reference.
·      Friday, May 22nd – Video/Animation and Slide Show due.
·      Monday, May 25th – no school – Memorial Day Holiday.
·      Wednesday, May 27th – Skype Handouts call.
·      Thursday, May 28th – last in class day to work on California Mission Project.
·      Thursday, May 28th – second semester Showcase.  Details to follow.
·      Friday, May 29th – California Mission Project due.
·      Monday, June 1st – California Mission Project presentations – day 1.
·      Tuesday, June 2nd – California Mission Project presentations – day 2.
·      Tuesday, June 2nd – Open House 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm.

·      Thursday, June 4th – Last day of school.

(Click on the image to see all pictures.)