Greek Day, Election Day, Mascot Project......

Hello Friends,
  We've managed to fly through another week. We've been learning about multiplication and division, levels of government, and linking verbs. We also started our case study on mascots. We will be holding a 'primary' election to determine our mascot choices and then the children will be organizing a full fledged election for the whole school in the next month!

A few reminders: 
   *RRJ are due every Monday. Please ask your child to show you their response. It should be dated for the Monday due date and your child will always know if there is a specific assignment, otherwise they can respond in any way they choose. This week, I'd like to see a venn diagram that compares and contrasts two books, characters, or precepts. We have practiced this in class.
(We will be starting non-fiction tomorrow so you will see new types of responses.)
   *The reading calendar inside of the RRJ needs to be filled out weekly as well. The title of what your child is reading should be written on at least 5 calendar days.
   * The Save the Turkey Project is due next Friday. 11/14
   * The Thanksgiving Luncheon invitations were sent home last week. Please reserve your spot if you plan to come! It is on 11/20 at 12:00.

And of course....photos!!

Happy Halloween!!

      It's been a great week in room 212! We visited Woodlands Gardens today and it was a super fun time! We made our Greek togas for Greek Day tomorrow and we spent some time reviewing subtraction with regrouping.
      The book fair ends tomorrow so if you wanted to buy any books, stop by or send money with your child. The kids have been really excited to be able to buy all of their book wish list items! Thank you all very very much for the books you bought and donated to the classroom! :)

*Don't forget that next week, November 4th, is a teacher work day. Mrs. Yoo and I will be planning our case study as well as units for division, Non-fiction, and rocks and minerals!

****You'll be receiving this invite, colored by your child, for our Thanksgiving Luncheon. Our very own Everest created the artwork for the invite! Such an artist! :)

Here's a look at this week......

CHARACTER POSTERS AND WONDER PROJECT

MULTIPLICATION!!

GREEK ARCHITECTURE ARTWORK

WOODLANDS GARDENS TRIP

Is it really almost November??

Time sure flies at WE!! We've had another busy week...I need a new line because we will pretty much never have a dull moment!

Important Dates:

October 27th-31st    Book Fair - Your child will bring home a wish list tomorrow.

October 28th     Pasta and Prose 5-7pm (Media Center) *Look for the orange flyer in your child's folder

October 29th   Author Visit   Marc Barnett & Jon Klassen

October 30th     Walking Field Trip to Woodlands Garden
* We will be doing a nature walk and scavenger hunt as well as making apple cider. If you'd like to join us let me know! All are welcome.

October 31st     Greek Day!!  Your child will be rotating through stations to learn how the Ancient Greeks lived. They will paint togas, eat Greek food, participate in Olympic Games and more....
Don't forget to send in a white pillow case and check out the sign-up genius to donate items for Greek Day.

CLICK HERE FOR THE SIGN-UP LINK

*Remember, we are not dressing in costumes but we will wear our artwork!

November 1st  Daylight Savings Time Ends...Turn your clocks back!

November 4th  No School (Teacher Work Day)

November 5th  Mrs. Soons out for a personal day....I have a wonderful sub Mr. Mygrant!

November 14th  Turkey Project Due

November 21st   Thanksgiving Luncheon (Flyer will come home soon)

Wish List : For Math Games
Dice
Playing Card Decks


Turkey Project

 Your child brought home a "Turkey Project" today. Here is a copy of the directions.

This week we worked hard to learn about arrays and multiplication. We learned how about various strategies to help us remember our X facts,  we named the properties of X, and we have begun breaking arrays apart in order to think about X using the Distributive Property. We went to Mrs. Yoo's class to learn some fun new math games and we played X games on the computer. 

We are also working to publish our Personal Narratives and wrap-up our unit on Character Traits.

Next Month:

Math= Multiplication, Division, and Problem Solving (2 & 3 steps)

SS= Government Case Study

Science= Rocks & Minerals

Reading= Non-fiction

Writing=Expository/Informational

Word Study=Within Word Spelling Patterns, Adverbs