Mr. Leone

Week 9!  Last week I hope you all attended our story telling night. That was basically the end of our story telling unit.   Mr. Leone is doing a couple more things to top it off.  Our class is assigned to do a pictograph of our choice story that we shared on story  telling night. In… [Read More...]

Students now have four good stories under their belt; they should pick one to fine-tune for storytelling night.  The big night is this Wednesday October 19. Students have written instructions on preparing for this important night. They should: choose the best of their four stories edit, polish and turn it into the best three to… [Read More...]

Last week we started a story about something humorous. It was due on Monday so we had alot of time to share and improve them. The stories are 3 to 5 minutes long. We also practiced telling it from memory.  This is helping us prepare for October 19th. October 19th is the night when we… [Read More...]

We are definitely off and running!  October 19th is coming up quick (MS story telling night). Your student has written three stories at this point; there will be a total of four for students to choose from on story telling night.   Students were asked to go home this past weekend and prepare to tell their… [Read More...]

Thanks to everyone who made the overnight field trip a success.  That went better than I expected, and I expected it to be great!  I think I now know the names of everyone in Neighbors, Long, Robertson, and Church’s class.   Only four classes to go! I have many parents signed up for goal setting… [Read More...]

Parents and Guardians, Our classroom community is phenomenal!  Everyone has been showing up ready for school with a great attitude.  I am so grateful to be working with this group of kids! Some of the things students have been working on are geography, word-roots, and storytelling.  We are currently working on Story #2; a noteworthy journey… [Read More...]

This week, we learned about latitude and longitude. We learned how to read coordinates, which is something like saying “30 degrees north and 23 degrees west”. We also learned an easy way to memorize the difference between the two. In math, they talk about plane coordinates and the x and y axis. We added x… [Read More...]

Wow, the first week of school was a blast!  We spent the first week settling in, getting to know each other, and going over expectations.  We are having our first field trip to Central Oregon on September 21 and 22; please get those permission slips in. Students were given a poetry assignment modeled after George… [Read More...]

I am looking forward to an exciting year!!!