Feast

Our Thanksgiving Feast was a BIG success!  The kids had so much fun sampling different kinds of foods from fruit salad and veggies to apple pie and pumpkin squares.  Thanks to everyone that was able to donate items for the feast.  What a great way to start Thanksgiving Break!!

Miss Hampton's last day was also a big success.  The class managed to keep her book and gift basket a secret.  She was so surprised!!!  Thank you for sending in all the wonderful gifts to help start her new classroom.  She is very grateful for the generosity.

Finally, I have to tell you how sad I am......you'll never believe what happened.  I took SOOO many pictures of Miss Hampton's last day and the feast for all of you to see.  I was really excited to go home and post all the pictures to the Blog, but then the worst happened; ALL THE PICTURES on my camera from September 7th until today somehow got ERASED!!!  They are totally gone!  I did everything to try to get them back, but I think they're gone forever.  I had pictures of the feast, Snazzy Snacks, Halloween, Mystery Readers, even my baby shower.  I was so upset!  :(  It wasn't a very good start to my Thanksgiving Break.  I'm still so bummed about it, but I guess that just means I'll have to take even more pictures now.  Needless to say, I won't be posting any pictures of that fun day.  I'm sorry!       

The Weber Weekly

I can't thank all of you enough for all of the donations lately!  From Snazzy Snacks, to the science experiments, and the apple tree, your generosity has been amazing!!  I am so lucky to have wonderful, caring, and supportive families this year.  Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Due to our day off on Tuesday, we were VERY busy this week!  The kids have been working really hard on their most recent writing project, which is a realistic short story.  They've used graphic organizers to develop their main character and to map out their story plan.  They're drafting their stories now and will be publishing them next week.  Be watching your child's folder to see his/her latest writing piece. 

Our math concepts are getting very challenging and the children are doing a great job keeping up.  We're still working on place value as well as name collection boxes, rounding, and estimating.  We'll finish this unit next week with our outcome assessment.  In the meantime, we're still working on the memorization of basic facts.  I hope your child has been practicing his/her facts at home.

Science has still been a favorite subject this week.  The kids have been learning about the ways that matter can change, such as freezing and melting.  We're going to continue our science unit next week with the Water Cycle. 
The children continued to explore how using what they know helps them as readers.  They learned that good readers use clues in the text to help them figure out what the author doesn't tell them directly; this strategy is called making inferences.  Making inferences means using text clues, plus what the children know, to make a guess about characters, ideas, or story events.  The children were given several opportunities to make inferences in our shared reading story, Dear Juno. 

Please take note of these upcoming Grand Prairie events:

• Monday, November 14th - - Lights for Learning order forms are due
• Tuesday, November 15th - - Rain Forest Family Night at 6:30 p.m. in the gym
• Wednesday, November 16th - - Picture retake day
• Friday, November 18th - - 2nd quarter midterms go home

Happy Veteran's Day!!

 
  

Science Donations

Over the next two weeks, we will be doing a couple of fun science experiments.  We will need a few donations to make these experiments a success.  Please let me know if you can provide any of the following supplies:

• 1 package of 30 Styrofoam bowls
• 1 package of 30 clear, plastic cups
• 1 package of plastic spoons
• Corn Starch

Thank you to the families of Jeremy, Emily, Aiyana, Josh, Zoe, Luke S., Connor, and Bohdan for already agreeing to bring in some of the supplies.  Science class is going to be so much fun because of all of you!  :)