October 3, 2014

We continued with our fall art project today.  The students are focusing on using different shades and smudging techniques to create realistic looking oil pastel pictures.  To go with this art project, the students continued to work on their fall writing.  We focused on writing a paragraph with 4-5 very descriptive sentences to describe what we see in the fall.  Some students also completed what we hear.  Next week we will continue to do in fall I smell, in fall I taste and in fall I feel.  The students are practicing to use both similes and personification to make their writing create images in the readers head.

Next week the grade 3 students will be starting their SLA's.  They will do the written one on Wednesday, the math one on Thursday and then the digital SLA's will be done the following week.  Ms. Rauser will administer the SLA's with the grade 3 students while Mrs. Cooper works with the grade 4 students.

Please note the upcoming dates: we have a very exciting field trip planned for October 29 to Anne and Sandy Cross Conservation area.  We will be sending out more information about this field trip in the next few weeks but we wanted to give parents a heads up for those that are able to volunteer.  We will require 5 volunteers from each class for this field trip.

Upcoming Dates:

October 7th - Picture Day 
October 13th - Thanksgiving - NO SCHOOL
October 14th - Fun lunch orders due
October 17th - Halloween Howler ticket orders due
October 29th - Ann and Sandy Cross Field trip for room 79 and 80
October 30th - Halloween Howler
October 31st - PD Day - NO SCHOOL