!Happy Holiday!

Rusty's family is ready to celebrate! Thanks for sharing your photos...Keep them coming!

Happy Fall Holidays

!!!Box Tops are Due!!!

Please send in any and ALL Box Tops.

Monday is the Fall deadline.



Pumpkin Rotation

This week we look forward to 1:00! It's time to have some fun with pumpkins! On Monday, we stayed in our class and estimated how many seeds were in our pumpkin! There were 139. We had a couple friends who were pretty close! Yesterday, we traveled next door to Mrs. C. Williams. She read a story about the life cycle of a pumpkin. We each made a pumpkin cycle crown! And...today...we walked ALL the way down to Mrs. Williams' room to see how much our pumpkins weighed! Oh! Boy! I wonder what ever we will do in Mrs. Davis' class tomorrow. Friday we will get to visit Mrs. Boor's AND Ms. Woodard's room! What fun!

Dragon Of The Week

On Tuesday, Hayden brought in his favorite book! We all enjoyed listening to him read...

Not only did he read to us but he seems to be a "pro" at showing the pictures. Hmmm I wonder if he has some teachers in his family!

Today, his mom and dad sent in a poem that made our Hayden blush. However, we discovered that we think he is pretty special for some of the same reasons they do!!! (However, the reference to the Magnum P.I. theme song was lost on my little dragons!)

I hope you all have a wonderful evening...dining at Chick fil a I hope! Remember to tell them you are with Robertson!

Next week we will begin our author study of Marc Brown!

Oh! My Goodness...if this posts I am going to JUMP for joy!!!  I don't want to push my luck...so I will write more later! :)

!Field Trip Time!

Mark your calendars

Tuesday, Decemeber 7th

9:00am

I know it's early...but I am going to need to know if your child will be bringing a sack lunch or will be ordering a sack lunch from the cafeteria. A note will be coming home in your child's blue folder. Cafeteria Lunch choices are: Yogurt Trio OR Turkey and Cheese on wheat OR Ham and Cheese on wheat.

We will leave at 9:00 and return about 11:30 (just after our lunch time) so we will either eat in the courtyard or in our classroom on that day!

Happy, Happy Monday!
It was so wonderful being back in the classroom! We have so much to do!!!
Last week and this week we have been reading poems and will be writing about scarecrows...If at all possible I would like for your child to wear "scarecrow" like clothing on Friday for pictures! (jeans, overalls, plaid shirts...nothing that breaks the dress code and definitely not to COSTUME like!)
Today we did our first pumpkin rotation...Estimation! Everyone made an estimation of how many pumpkin seeds were in the pumpkin. After we had counted out a couple groups of 10...we got to revise our guess. (Vocabulary: Estimation and Reasonablness) Our first guesses ranged from 10 all the way up to 1000. We did have some 100502 (which translates to 152) and 10011 (which is 111)! We will keep working on place value! Tomorrow we will visit Mrs. C. Williams' room...I wonder what we will learn there?
Our new Dragon of the Week is Hayden. (I have not forgotten Makenna's smilebox...just that school has it blocked for some reason!)

Hayden's Favorites:
Mac & Cheese, Playing Wii, and Star Wars Legos!
Hayden says, "hook 'em horns" and LOVES snowy days in Texas!

We are all looking forward to learning more about Hayden this week!

This afternoon we talked about those doubles doubles again! We love that song. More of us noticed patterns in our doubles chart. We were able to go all the way to 40 today! So...since we are getting so good at that...we started thinking that we could use our knowledge of doubles and add one to one of our addends and we would know the answer! We also noticed that when we added 1 more to our doubles it made our sum ODD!!! I will be sending home some flash cards and dot cards for your child to practice with! (I'm waiting to see if the photostory I just made is going to upload...keeping my fingers crossed!Well...it's been about 45 min. so I guess it's not going to post! GGGRRRRR)

Mmmm Ice Cream

Let's Change the state of Matter

Materials:

· 1/2 cup of milk
· 1 to 2 TBSP of sugar (or 1 heaping spoonful!)
· 1/4 teaspoon of vanilla
· 5 Cups of Ice
· 6 TBSP rock salt
· 2 pint size Ziploc bags (because of the vigorous shaking, use Ziploc brand)
· 1 gallon Ziploc bag (because of the vigorous shaking, use Ziploc brand)
· Plastic spoon for each student
* Ziploc bags can be replaced with a large coffee can or anther container with a lid, students can roll the can to one another instead of shaking the bags.

Procedure :
Start by having every student wash their hands!

1.  lead the students through the measurement of the ingredients, starting by putting the 6 tbsp of rock salt into the LARGE Ziploc bag.
2. Students will then place their pint size bag into their other pint size bag, (double bagging them), placing them inside the gallon size bag, being careful not to get salt into the small bag (or ice cream will be very salty).
3. With help, students will add milk, sugar and vanilla into the inner small bag. Small bags are closed up with the inner one sealed first and then the outer one.
4. The students add ice to the large bag with the salt.
5. The students will take turns shaking the bag continuously for 10 minutes.
6. At the end of 10 minutes or when the ice cream has hardened (time may vary), take out the inner ice cream bags and discard the larger bag. Lastly, give each student a spoonful of ice cream!

YAY...I LOVED being back in the classroom! I missed my little dragons so much! Those of you that were not here or had to go home... you were MISSED! I have uploaded pictures of our CRAZY day. We had a Red Ribbon Assembly (football player pictures)this morning and did a Changing Matter Experiment (making ice cream) this afternoon! I will post more about some of these events later. Today, I have to scurry over to my nephews house to help prepare for tomorrow's festivities! So...Sunday is going to be my catch up day! I will get a smilebox uploaded of Makenna's Special Week and tell you more about our day then!

What is this?

Katlyn is getting everything down!

Look at this little scientist's journal

Shake

shake

Shake

Keep shaking

Yes! We're still shaking!

Brrrr my hands are cold

Glad our buddies were here to help!

No...you take it!



Go! Trenton Go!



Is it a solid yet?

This is fun!

Even Miss Guy's buddy get's involved!

Okay...

I think...

it's READY!!!

It was all worth it!

save some for me!

is yours a solid or a liquid?

mmm can we do it again?

I hope my hands thaw out!

I'm eating every last bite!

mm mm good!

Everything's more fun with our 4th grade friends!

Sidney loves it!

Mr. I introducing those Big Guys in the back



Look at how strong he is!
NO DRUGS



You too can do this after doing 4000 push ups a day!

Thanks for bringing these smart, athletic, drug free,
football players to school...PTA

I feel so lost not having been with my "babies" all week! I miss them so much...hopefully, Friday is going to be a FUN day for us!  All my little scientist...GET READY!!!
On that note next week we will be revisiting the scientific method.  We will be using small pumpkins or gourds throughout the week!  Please send in a small pumpkin or gourd in on Monday, Oct. 25th. Thank you in advance for making it a great week in science! 

Wow! Why is it every year the weeks seem to fly by faster and faster? I cannot believe next week is WEEK 9!  We will be one quarter of the way through the year...
Let's hope I have better luck with the pictures today!  My Hankers called a while back to tell me, "Kissi, learning to go potty frustrates me!" I think he felt the way I do with this blogger...I know how to do it but sometimes things don't always go the way I want them to!

Makenna brought Pinkalicious to read to the class!
Her favorite color is PINK!

Yesterday was "go to the book fair and eat with someone GRAND"! Look at our GRAND visitors! Well...that would be blogger telling me NO MORE pictures! So...I'll try yet again tomorrow night...I really don't understand what is going on!



Let's see if I remember how to do this blog thing!  It seems like it's been forever!  It was great talking with so many of you on Monday!  I love talking to you about your kids! They are so amazing (which I know you know) but I can only imagine it is wonderful to hear it from others!
Yesterday, Tuesday, I was here but not here here!  I was doing a follow up training with our kinder and first grade teachers on our Write From the Beginning writing program! We had the chance to assess some writing samples and look forward to sharing the wonderful writing your children are doing! (We now have a wonderful "Work Display" outside of Pod 1.  Mrs. Kelly and Mrs. Springer graciously designed our display cards...so be sure to check them out when you are in the building!)
Since we were not in school on Monday our new Dragon of the Week had to pack in her All About Me poster and her favorite book into yesterday!

Makenna loves her family, the color of pink and cheering of course!

Okay...well...I was getting frustrated with blogger at school...uploading pictures and video was not making my life easy! So...I just packed up and decided to try from home! WELLLLLL...I forgot my hard drive so...I have no pictures to upload! AARRGHH I'm going to try and upload the Wednesday Weather Report and if it doesn't work from home I'm going to...well...not sure what I'll do but...I will put pictures on tomorrow of our "Grand" visitors, book from special classroom friends, Makenna's super special letter from home and our awesome readers! So the videos are not uploading from my computer either! So I'm back to trying to upload them elsewhere and embed! Keep your fingers CROSSED! 

Don't forget Fall Festival this Friday night!  I hope to see everyone there! It's going to be lots of fun and the Book Fair will still be open! 

Also, thank you to GRACIE and her Mom for the yummy Golden Graham "snack" today!  SOOOO YUMMY!

Annnnnddd...finally our weather report is UP! Enjoy your evening!

Athlete of the Week
Diego!

Star Student of the Month for Integrity
Congratulations Ryann
(I didn't make the certificate and spell her name wrong)

Mathias said, "Good Job Ryann"
We are all proud of you!

Then it was time to "Cha Cha SLIIIIIIIDE!"

We all like to dance!

Don't forget conferences on Monday, October 11th.  No school for kids!  If you have to bring your child on Monday...not a problem.  We will have a some quiet things for them to do out in the pod!

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