 Week in review; The United States Constitution, The Election Process, Our Fall Party, Measurement, The Sounds of A-R and E-A-R in our spelling words, the Game "Sparkle", The Song "One Eyed, One Horned, Flying Purple People Eater", Finishing Sarah, Plain and Tall, October Tiger Pride Assembly, Take a peek at our photo gallery for some pics of math class.Check out the following fun site about Washington D.C.Welcome to the Kids CapitalUpcoming Events and Topics:spelling; contractions and the sounds of ir, ur and ormath; more measurement and telling time (students should know time to the nearest 5 minutes)social studies; our school mock electionwriting; word choice, WOW wordsreading; characterscalendar events; November 2 Tiger Pride Assembly November 9 Early Dismissal and Veteran's Day Assembly
A big thank you goes out to Mrs. Murray and all of her goolish helpers for a great fall party!
Looks like we had a good time!
 Our class participated in the Scholastic Live Webcast with Taylor Swift this week. We even submitted a question. It was fun to hear about the books that she liked as a child and about the steps she takes in the writing process. We hope to be involved with more opportunities like this in the future.
Ask your child about...how the words, instead, but and although can change the meaning of a word in a sentence, line plots and bar graphs, story endings that we are NOT going to use anymore and our great extended endings, the voting process, homophones there, their and they're, the founding of our country and The Declaration of Independence.
Thank you for coming to our parent/teacher conference. Our face to face time to discuss your child is extremely valuable. If you desire an additional conference please let me know and we will schedule something soon.
Fall Party will be Wednesday, October 31. You should have received an email from Mrs. Murray about sending donations for this event. Thank you for all you do!
Remember! No School Friday, October 26.
Andy Taylor even helped us learn about the founding of our country. Enjoy!
 Field Trip Success! Wow, What a Day! We...ran, hollered, looked for gold, had a Hatfield/McCoy feud, made "finger candles", shot a bow and arrow, threw a tomahawk, ran some more, had a tug of war, slid down a three story slide, hollered some more, visited an Indian village, rode in a cattle wagon, sailed down a zip line, ran, looked for Runnin Roger's marbles, watched Mountain Man Les make an arrowhead, hollered, crawled through the mouse house, learned a rain dance, heard many stories, beat on a drum, and so much more. Ask your child about all of it. Check out the video below.Frontier Theater 2012
Red Ribbon Week is NEXT week:
The costume days are as follows:
Monday – “I Have the Power to Be Drug Free” (Superhero
Attire)
Tuesday – “I’m Voting for My Future” (Red, White,
and Blue Attire)
Wednesday –“Drugs Won’t Get in the Way of My Dreams
(Pajamas)
Thursday – “These Paws Don’t Touch Drugs” (Willard
Tiger Attire)
Friday - NO SCHOOL (Our weekly spelling test will be on Thursday.)
It's not too late to schedule a parent/teacher conference. This will be an opportunity to pick up your child's grade card and for us to meet face to face. We will have 15 minutes to discuss your child's success and ask/answer questions. Please contact the school office for a time. 742-4639  Ask your child about our new read aloud; Sarah, Plain and Tall.
 M & M's make everything better, even math. Ask your child about making our pictographs with M&M's. Other activities this week included... making "maaaavelous" middles in writing (ask your child about the picture of the cool, awesome dog), the end of Ruby Holler , making words with the ou and ow sound, recreating the water cycle and so much more.Thank you for sending in the field trip permission slips and money. We are looking forward to a crisp, sunny, autumn day for the frontier theater. Please dress your children in tennis shoes and send a jacket. We hope to leave the school as close to 8:45 as possible. We will leave Marshfield around 1:00 expecting to arrive back at Willard East at 2:00. As the school handbook states, students must ride the bus to the field trip, but if you would like to sign your child out, they may ride home with you from Marshfield. Please do not take your child until you have signed out with the teacher. Students will be counted absent from the time you sign them out. Thank you for signing up for a parent/teacher conference time. Conferences will be held on Tuesday, October 23 and Thursday, October 25. The link below will take you to a google spreadsheet to sign up for a time if you still need one. I'm hoping to meet with every family. Conferences will last approximately 15 minutes. If we see that more time is needed we will schedule a follow up appointment for the next week.Conference Sign-Up Link
Time Is Running Out: Today is the deadline to sign up for "Life with Laura" through the Willard University. You can sign up through today and bring your $25 the first night of classes (Monday, October 15). For More Information...Life with Laura DescriptionWillard University Information and RegistrationQuick Calendar Reminders: Field trip Thursday, October 18, Parent Teacher Conferences Tuesday October 23 and Thursday October 25, No School Friday October 26, Fall Party Wednesday October 31
 Our Finished Community Pop-Up Books This week in review:
Writing: Boring Beginnings vs. Brilliant Beginnings; ask your child about revising their beginnings
Math: Assessment over money, subtraction, regrouping and commutative property of addition, we also started our new unit about data (a note came home today about this new unit)
Reading: Comprehension strategies; making connections, using prior knowledge and asking questions; Ask your child about the books, The Relatives Came , Officer Buckle and Gloria, and Stelleluna.
Science: We started a unit about the water cycle. We will be learning about precipitation, condensation, evaporation and accumulation. (Do you parents remember the old "Electric Company" video about tion, tion tion tion.??) (I'm sure I just dated myself to be much older than most of you, oh well.)
Spelling: homophones to, two, and too and the long vowel sound Field Trip Permission Slips and Money Need to Be Returned By Monday, October 8.We must be able to have an accurate head count and lunch count by the beginning of next week. Please return your field trip information to school. Thank you. (Need another form? Click below)PERMISSION SLIP LINKCongratulations to our new class student council representatives! Mr. Parker and Miss Sidney will represent our class well at all of the upcoming student council functions!You can find more pictures of our community pop up books in the photo gallery.
One More Thing....I found a you tube video of the "tion" song from The Electric Company so that all of you that are younger than I am will know what I'm talking about. Enjoy!
Today we were able to use a great iPad app called educreations to review our current math content. Students used this app to "teach" a lesson about a variety of addition/subtraction strategies. We will watch them tomorrow in class. We hope you enjoy them! Gracie (subtraction across zero) ...more to come soon
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