Thank you!

Hi Folks!

It has taken me a while to get reorganized after our awesome week, but I am finally ready to sit down and write about all of our fabulous activities. The students, and I must admit myself too, had SO much fun exploring pumpkins. We wrote poems and persuasive essays about them. We measured and observed them. We put together character traits to "find" them during the "Great Pumpkin Heist" and finally we dissected them. If your child hasn't already shared some of the exciting things we learned about pumpkins please ask them to share.

Now it is time to get back into our normal routine. We are studying a new list of vocabulary words this week, as well as continuing our personal narratives. This week we are specifically exploring how we can expand our writing through the use of paragraphs.

In reading, we are learning the individual roles that we will practice when we begin independent literature circles after Thanksgiving break. We also had our first two book talks today. The students are really showing their creativity and engaging each other in learning about new books. I can't wait to see more.

An important update on testing is that we will be having our first Social Studies benchmark on Tuesday November 10th and our first Science benchmark on Friday November 13th. That is just next week. Stay tuned as study materials go up on the homework tab.

Finally a big thank you to the parent volunteers for putting together wonderful snacks for our Poetry Cafe and a fun project for our Harvest Celebration! It was a fun time all around!!!