Happy Halloween and Red Ribbon Week.
We started both off this morning. We read a fun book called, I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Bat at Fly Time this morning. It was just a fun way to get in the Halloween mood. The most common feeling today was I am feeling happy or excited because Halloween is on Friday! Me tooooooo!!! I love Halloween! Why? Well, you may think it was because I was born on the day 41 years ago…but you are wrong! I just love, love, love CANDY!!!! (Which happens to be my older sister's name! No wonder I love her so much!!!) She however wasn't too impressed with me being born on the day she was supposed to go out and get some!!! She probably had to trick or treat the nurses stations that year. :0(
For Red Ribbon Week, we reviewed the story of DEA Agent Camarena. We also started our Fly Time Packet. Today, it simply explained how saying no to drugs, alcohol, and tobacco all deals with the six traits of character! We will look further into each trait and how it relates to this awesome week. Some sheets in our packet are super easy, but the conversations about them are powerful.
Today, kids also had to look at some pictures of different drugs and determine if they were medical, legal for adults only, or illegal for everyone. Take a minute and go over these with kiddos tonight before we go over them tomorrow morning and have a discussion at home. If you do, write DRUGS in the planner for $20 tomorrow. You reenforcing what we do at school on this topic only makes it that much more powerful and builds those conversations that will allow them to trust you in the future when they need to talk to you again about it. :0)
Many kiddos showed their united spirit of just saying no by wearing red, white, AND blue to school today! These outfits will also work wonderfully for the upcoming Veteran's Day concert in November! Tomorrow kids can help "Give Drugs the Boot" by dressing in western attire. Yeehaw! Those that do, will earn another $50. Go team Arrowhead!!!
Tomorrow, Mr. Meier will be in the classroom to talk weather tools with us. This will wrap up our weather unit. Final test will be on Thursday. We will review in class on Wednesday and kids will write down anything they still need to study.
It would be great if a parent could come in and help on Friday afternoon from 2-3 while we do our Dry Ice experiments. Please text or write me in the planner if you are available. Two would even be more helpful! Thanks in advance!
Homework tonight is two/three fold.
1. A Halloween math sheet. Kids need to substitute numbers in using the key, and then subtract them correctly. Boo!
2. Book Report Part 1. We created the report today in class. Tonight, kids need to fill in the character section. Kids need to write it on the attached lined paper rather than the ones on the actual picture. They also need to write M for main character or S for supporting character on each of the characters listed. They also need to begin to color the haunted house picture in their neatest 4th grade coloring. They can use crayons, colored pencil, paint, glitter, stickers, whatever. Just neat!
3. Some kids have classwork for reading or a graphing math sheet that they need to finish up.
A special thank you to Reece and his mom today. They gave me a fun BELIEVE book full of quotes. As you know, I love to put those on top of the blog posts. Thank you for the new ones that I will share you two!!! How sweet of you to see it and think of me!!! BELIEVE!!!
Have a great, great night!
Mrs. Grewell
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