"If You Give Up Today, Think of all the Lives You Won't Save Tomorrow" Planes Fire and Rescue Movie

Hello there. As I am typing this, I am hoping that Josh's football team took home the Mighty Bowl Championship. Either way, I hope he had a great time playing his very best!

I hope that you had a great weekend. I spent mine relaxing, watching my daughter's basketball games, having lunch with a great friend, watching my son's favorite movie twice, making a family dinner at the ranch, helping my nephew write college essay questions, and making a cherry pie. Busy, yet very relaxing and rewarding!

We ended last week with two very important events. We had Doughnuts with Dads and our Veteran's Day program at St. John's and Mission Ridge. Both experiences were outstanding and so very touching! Here are some pictures of both! Dads…I will send a copy of the picture home for you to frame in the Tuesday folder this week. Loved seeing all of you here. Not having a father in my life, it was especially heart warming to see the bond between so many sons and daughters and dads. Love.


This week…

Math: Perimeter, Area, and a touch of volume. All the while, we will continue practicing long division.

Reading: We will start our inquiry projects this week by writing persuasive letters to Mrs. Meier. Students will select one way to make our school more "green." They will try to persuade our principal to change things up to make them better. Students will also quiz out on the story they read independently last week. Many skills will be quizzed on.

Spelling: compound words. Alternate list has hyphenated compound words.

Language: Plural rules, especially changing f to a v and add es.

Science: We will finish up matter.

S.S.: We will finish up the NE unit. We will have our open book unit test next week before the Thanksgiving break.

MT History: We will get into the state symbols this week.

Fly Time: This week we will focus on what we are thankful for and the history behind Thanksgiving. We will build a thankful tree in our classroom.

My next task today is to grade the states and capital's tests. Please know that the first ones generally don't go well as a whole. It seems every year, that kids have to do the first one in order to take it seriously. They don't quite understand how difficult it is to learn all 50 states. Then, test two comes around and they do much, much better. While walking around during the test on Friday, I couldn't help but notice that this was again the case. Kids need to not wait till the week of the test, but study a little bit at a time each night. I HIGHLY recommend going back to these ones again and making sure kids know them for the 50 test at the end of the year.

I leave you with our star of the week: Avery. She shared some interesting things that even I didn't know. She collects big eyed stuffed animals. She is searching currently for a turkey one for Thanksgiving. Avery also likes crafting. she made this bookmark out of leather. Avery also loves soccer and gymnastics. She placed 3rd in her meet this year. Yay!!!! Avery didn't miss one game in this year's World Cup. Her grandmother made her this players book. It was VERY impressive and I can tell it took a lot of hard work to create! A true memory maker for sure! Thanks for sharing so much with us Avery!


Have a wonderful Sunday and dress warm this week again.
Mrs. Grewell