Week 11

 Weekly Greetings!

We had a fabulous time last week as we ended our first quarter! There were many events to round out our regular schedule. On Tuesday we had the monthly "Instant Challenge" that we participate in statewide, and the students had to create a turbine that wound spin when blown by a hair dryer. The turbine had to pull up a cup with pennies in it. The groups came up with lots of wonderful and creative ideas as shown in the pictures to follow.

To follow up with the Halloween theme of the week, we carved a pumpkin for another class decoration. The students voted on the face design and estimated how many seeds were in the pumpkin. They cleaned and sorted the seeds, and after roasting them we found out there was 600 seeds in our pumpkin. The highest estimate was 170.

 On Wednesday, we crowned another birthday queen for the day, with a celebration in the afternoon!

 

 One of the specialists that works with the district was in the building on Thursday and shared her pet friend, CeeCee, with the class. This tied in nicely with one of the thematic units in our reading series.

 Of course, the real highlight of the week was our Friday Halloween fun! The class enjoyed wearing their costumes to school and all the goodies sent in by their families!

 The afternoon activity for the whole school was a lot of fun also. It consisted mostly of team relays that all the students participated in. Unfortunately, most of the pictures that were snapped were blurry as the relays were fast paced events. I have included a few were the students were more stationary.

This week will be the start of our second quarter and Rita Abel will be visiting on Monday to add variety to our soils Science unit. The class will also get an extra PE class with Mr. Cronk on Wednesday, and Mrs. Lundy will be in on Friday for her biweekly counseling time. In addition, there will be Junior High basketball games starting at 11:00am on Friday. I know we will have another full and enriching week!

Enjoy your week!

Kind Regards,
Julie Brown