Happy Halloween!

Upcoming Dates

Sunday, November 2nd: Daylight Savings
Don’t forget to change your clocks back one hour!

Monday, November 3rd: October Book-It Reading Logs Due!
Remember to read every evening and complete the reading log we sent home earlier this month! Students who complete their reading logs will receive a certificate for a Pizza Hut personal pizza (and even if you do not like pizza, please remember to read every day!) The November reading log is in today’s Friday Folder.

Monday, November 10th and Tuesday, November 11th: NO SCHOOL
Enjoy your four-day weekend! We will not be coming to school because of Veteran’s Day.

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Dear Families,

Happy Halloween! This week was a short week so we did not have our usual literacy centers. Instead, we had lots of different activities!

On Monday, all the teachers and staff did team-building activities led by Micah Jacobson from the Boomerang Project. He helped us to get to know each other and ourselves more deeply and motivated us to continue making Eaton a wonderful place for teachers and students!

On Tuesday, we had a fire drill and firefighters from the fire department came to make sure we had a good evacuation process planned out. They gave us good marks! This week was also Red Ribbon Week and we learned about what it means to be drug free. This is why red ribbons were tied around school and students were asked to wear red clothes.

On Wednesday, we had the Morris Brothers return to Eaton to present a special assembly about Red Ribbon Week and what it means to stay safe. Today, of course, was an eventful day with all the Halloween celebrations!

Here are some highlights for the week:
• Language Arts:
Poem of the Week: Pumpkin
Song of the Week: Four Seasons
Kindness is: raising money for my school.
Word Wall Words: two, three, four, five, once, upon, in, what
Story of the Week: The Box, Wigs in a Box
Word Families: -ox, -ot
Sounds: d, w, l, x, and short o
Strategy and Skill Focus: Question and Noting Details
Grammar: Capitalizing Names and Word Order in Sentences

• Writing: This week we started writing a short description about a monster that we created. We also drew a picture of our monster and wrote details about it.

• Math: This chapter on data and graphs has been much harder for the students to complete accurately. Students have trouble counting carefully when making picture or bar graphs and word problems have been somewhat challenging. Therefore, we have been working in smaller groups on different word problems to practice solving them together. Miss Yeh comes in every Tuesday morning before recess and she helps to take half the class for reading while I teach math, and we switch groups halfway through. This has helped me to work more closely with individual students.

• Science: This week was our last week with the Solids and Liquids kit. We explored the different properties of liquids this week and made our own observations about liquids such as: cornstarch, water, fabric softener, cooking oil, and liquid hand soap. We still have a few more wrap-up activities to assess student knowledge, but otherwise we were able to complete most of the experiments in our science kit. Also, this week in class, we completed a project about the life cycle of a pumpkin using the story, Pumpkin, Pumpkin. We learned that all living things change and grow! Please ask your child if they can teach you how a pumpkin grows!

• Social Studies: In addition to learning about Red Ribbon Week, we had circuits with Mrs. Barelli this week. She combined social studies with a little bit of math by first talking about homes and families in our community, and then counted the number of feet in people’s homes.

• Computer Lab: This week, we used Kidpix to draw a Halloween picture for our Kindness website.

• Buddies: We haven’t seen our buddies for a while! This Thursday, we talked about UNICEF and received boxes that we can use to collect money for children in need. There is more information about it in today’s Friday Folder. Afterwards, we read The Spider and the Fly and made black and white Halloween illustrations like the story.

Have a safe time tonight going trick-or-treating with your kids (rain rain go away)! Next week, I have jury duty (yikes!), but hopefully I won’t actually get called in! Stay dry and I will see you on Monday!