Halloween Party

We had a great Halloween party on Friday! A big "thank you" to Mimi Denton and Stephanie Howell for planning the fun activities and to Muggins Haerter for the yummy Frankenstein cupcakes and Carson for the scrumptious cookies. Before the party, however, we had a school Halloween parade. It was so fun to see the students dressed as princesses, monsters, animals, etc....


We had a mummy-wrapping contest.




We ate yummy cupcakes and cookies.


The students had to act out words, such as 'haunted house' and 'trick or treat.'

Come Join Our Halloween Celebration!

The kids are super excited to show off their costumes this Friday during our school's Halloween parade. The parade will start at about 8:30 and parents are more than welcome to come and watch the parade. Right after the parade, we will be having a small party in our classroom. We'll have cupcakes and juice. We will also be doing a few activities in our classroom. Come join us and see all of the students' fun costumes.

Arrrrg...It's a Pirate!

Today we went to listen to a pirate read us a story. The pirate is part of the book mobile that will be at our school for 2 weeks. The students will be going out to the book mobile during part of their library time.

As long as we are talking about books, don't forget about the book fair going on in the library this week. It is open before and after school. Our very gracious PTO has given each child a $5.00 coupon to use at the book fair. Please be sure to thank the PTO for this wonderful gift.

5th Grade Reading Buddies

We have 5th grade reading buddies! Our goal is to meet with our buddies 1x/month. During our first meeting with them, the students interviewed each other which, later, they turned into a paragraph. This will go into their memory book (which will be brought home at the end of the year).

Writing and Grammar

I just wanted to let you know what we have been working on (for writing and grammar) these past few weeks. We started writing some expository text using the Step-Up to Writing model. The topic sentence is where we GO so think of that like it is green (like a stop light). Then we start to slow down and talk about some details. This is yellow. At the red we STOP. This is the meat of the story--the evidence, smaller details, etc.... Here is an example of a student's expository writing:


Next week, we will be starting a report about bats.

For grammar, we have been working on making nouns plural. On the day we talked about adding -es to words ending in s, x, ch and sh we made a book:






This week, we are working on proper nouns.