November 4

I cannot believe it is November! Time seems to be flying by! 

We started off the week with our Halloween parade on Monday. It was fun to see the students in their costumes! I hope you had fun trick-or-treating Monday night. We had fun Monday afternoon with our 4th grade buddies 'reading in the dark.' 

We completed the last of our Halloween projects this week, including a new class book Spooky:Who is This? We will try and guess who made themselves in the different costumes and then that book will be added to the cirulation of class books. We are missing a few books we have not seen in a while. If you have one at home, please send it back to school. Students also practiced and illustrated a few Halloween poems in their poetry notebooks. 

We started a new individual innovation at the book table where students get to write about different things that they like. Students will use their "best guess spelling" to complete these books. We are encouraging them to write the sounds they hear in words. 

October journals went home this week. Again, students use best guess spelling to complete the question in their journals. It is fun to save them all school year and see the improvement throughout the year!

We started our unit on American symbols by making our American flag on Tuesday. I hope you enjoyed the blog post with the students saying the Pledge of Allegiance in front of their handwork. 

In math we have been working on topic 3, numbers to 10. Students continue to work hard counting and recording numbers. I encourage you to practice number formation at home! They have been working hard in school and it has been paying off! We are also continuing to do math choice-board during math. These centers are based off what the different unit are about. We have seen a lot of nice team work and examples of friendship during this time of the day. 

A few reminders:

Tuesday, November 8 there will be No School for election day.

Thursday, November 10- No School Students

Friday, November 11- Veteran's Day, No School

5th grade student council is conducting a can goods fundraiser and a toothbrush fundraiser to help the Burlington food pantry. They are collecting in front of the office if you would like to send something in. 

Conference schedules will go out sometime next week. Please review your time. If you need to reschedule please let me know. I am also available during the week before school and for a bit after school. A phone conference is always an option too if you cannot make it in to Francis Wyman. 

Please practice with your child putting on his/her jacket, scarves, mittens etc. It is super helpful if they know how to turn sleeves inside out, zipper, and put on their jackets when it gets time for recess and dismissal. 

Have a great weekend!!