Happy Halloween week! We have a lot of information coming at you in this blog, from Halloween to red ribbon spirit week to 2 assemblies. We are ending October with a big, busy bang! First, a look at what we are doing academically in room 9....
Math: We will be working on subtraction word problems. The students will still be writing the subtraction number sentences and matching addition sentences (a huge skill to continue practicing at home. Ex 7-2=5 so 5+2=7). Also we will now learn how to make picture number bonds, and we will be learning how to label our number bonds. Although this is sometimes difficult, I love the fact that the labeling makes us think about what our numbers mean (a concept we talk about often). We learn to concentrate on what is our whole number, what do our parts stand for? These help us to not only solve but to write our sentences and number bonds correctly.
ELA: Last week we began our read aloud "Mummies in the Morning" from the Magic Tree House series. This is a part of our cross curricular unit of study on Ancient Egypt. We will finish our "Mummies in the Morning" lit study this week. We are learning all about pyramids, mummies, what a sarcophagus is and more! Mrs. Perkins is even incorporating mummies into our 4 picture story frame during our grammar time next week.
Science and Social Studies: As part of our Ancient Egypt studies, next week we will learn a little about the mummification process and then make an hypothesis about what we think will happen to an apple if we cover it in natron mix. Then we will mummify our apple and see what happens! While we wait for our apple to mummify we will do some social studies and dive into expanding our learning on Ancient Egypt.
Red Ribbon Spirit Week: Next week is Red Ribbon week. To coincide we have incorporated a spirit week, and yes this also involves Halloween. Here are the themes each day next week:
- Monday: Wear Red
- Tuesday: Crazy hair and crazy socks
- Wednesday: Sunglasses and neon clothes
- Thursday: Halloween - Dress as your favorite superhero or you may wear a costume (see our guidelines for this below).
- Friday: Wear your Marshall T-Shirt/Marshall Blue
Important Halloween Information: Speaking of Halloween, we have a couple of important things to cover. Costumes and "party." Let's start with costumes. I was not going to allow them this year, for a myriad of reasons. Then I was inadvertently overruled by the Red Ribbon Week flyer. Now that costumes are going to be allowed here are our school and classroom guidelines that need to be followed.
- No masks or face paint at all.
- No weapons of any kind at all.
- Make sure costumes are easy for students to remove/unbutton/unzip independently for bathroom purposes.
- Costumes may not impede students ability to move safely and quickly out of the building in event of an alarm.
- Students must still wear weather appropriate footwear and jacket for recess.
- Absolutely NO scary/violent/gory costumes - keep it first grade appropriate or I will call you to bring a change of clothes for your child to change into.
I adhere to these guidelines to the tee and ask that you do so as well so that students will not have to be asked to remove or change out of their costume. Thank you for your cooperation!
Secondly, we will be having a harvest celebration during our day. There will not be a sign up for food, we will just be grateful for whatever comes our way. Please, if you do send something in avoid sweet treats, students will be getting plenty of candy if they go trick or treating later that night. Cheese and crackers, fruit, veggies and dip, applesauce and popcorn are a few suggestions that I have seen go over quite well. Thank you!
Assemblies: We have 2 very cool assemblies coming up this week. The first is a bilingual performance by Creede Repertory Theatre. They will by telling the story "Best Foot Forward: EL Mejor Pie Adelante!" This story promotes the message of appreciating differences and reinforces positive behavior patterns. Our second assembly has become a favorite Marshall tradition. Our fifth graders have been hard at work learning the art of Taiko drumming with our artist in residence Mr. Tony Trapasso (our first graders have also had the opportunity to beat on the Taiko drums during their music time for the 3 weeks Mr. Tony has been here). Our all school assembly to see their hard work will be this Friday @ 9:00 am.
Picture Retakes: Wednesday, October 30th is picture retake day. If you were not satisfied with your cute little pumpkins grin just send them in with their original photos and we will have them smile for the cameras one more time!
THINK Assembly Recognition: Friday we had an assembly to recognize some of our students as part of our PBIS (Positive Behavior Intervention Support) system here at Marshall. Our slogan for PBIS is THINK like a Mustang. This week we recognized Christopher and Hazel for the letter T (Trustworthy) and Jett and Colin for the letter H (Helpful). Way to go kiddos! I want to recognize all our students for their outstanding assembly behavior. Our class is always shows exemplary assembly behavior, sitting on their bottoms and listening respectfully! I am so proud of all of them. Below are some pictures from our assembly.:
A few more dates to remember: Mark your calendars for the following dates as well:
- Wednesday, November 6th - Parent University. I will put all the information you need in next weeks blog.
- Friday, November 8th - School Closed - Teacher PD day.
- Monday, November 11th - School Closed - Veterans Day.
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