Falling towards Winter

The fall is a special time, with lots of fun events. Here are some of the wonderful things we have done over the last few weeks.

McCall's Pumpkin Patch

Isaac and Angelica picking pumpkins.

We all got a pumpkin!

Isaac G., Isaac R., Brayden and Lucky got put in jail.

Luckily we made it through the corn maize. 

Halloween 

Enjoying our yummy snacks from Ms. Lisa :)

Halloween 2013: Violet from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Grimm Reaper, Dead prom queen, Queen of Hearts, Swat team, Pink Skeleton, Angry Bird, Zombie Marine, Ninja, a Jeannie, a white masked person (?), a zombie, storm trooper and Superman. 

"We love Halloween!!!" 

Veterans Day: Just of the few notes that our class made in honor of those Veterans who have served our country.

Show-n-tell:
Isabella unfortunately broke her arm last year but lived to tell abut it. Here she is sharing her cast and x-rays.

Isabella is telling us how they cut the cast off. 

 

Thanks for sharing your awesome pink cast and scary looking x-rays 

Lucky brought in his silver dollar. He was so excited to show how heavy it was

Lucky tells us all about his coin.

Cool silver dollar Lucky!! :)

Travis is very artistic and decided to bring in his Boys Book for Drawing. It shows different ways to draw "boys" things :)

There are some really cool things to draw in Travis' book. 

Travis was showing us how to draw Medusa..... cool!

Dia De Los Muertos

Tim, Kailey and I in our Dia de los muertos outfits. Cool face painting guys. 

4th grade is flying by.....

We have had lots of cool events happen in the last few weeks. Here is how we kept busy!

Ferris Wheels

 

The Ferris Wheels came out great. They worked so hard using: toilet paper rolls, paper towel rolls, Popsicle sticks, noodles, tape and some glue. Way to be resourceful guys!

 

Balloon Fiesta

 

 

 

African Drummers

 

Huge shout out to our African Drummers who came out and gave us an awesome show to kick off Children's Cultural Awareness Month!

 

Jog-a-Thon

We finished!!!!

We completed almost 200 laps....that's about 40 miles! Nice job everyone!

 

Show-n-tell

This week we had two show-n-tells. Kailey brought in her special bag filled with her mythological creature journal and some awesome findings like, feathers and leaves.

Here is Kailey's journal.

 

Kailey had two turkey feathers to show. Cool!

 

Lorenzo brought in his trophy from last year and the basketball with all his teammates signatures.

 

Lorenzo is talking about his trophy.  Nice job!

 

Awesome signatures from all the players.

 

 We have shared some great moments these last few weeks. Thanks to all the Disco Dogs hard work and thank you parents for your support.





 

 

 

 



Week of September 23rd

Show-n-tell: Angelica
Angelica brought in her India drum she bought in Santa Fe. It was fun listening to her play it.

Cool drum Angelica!

Thanks for sharing! 

Remember there are lots of exciting things coming up:

• October 4th- Jog-a-thon
• October 7th-9th- Student led conferences
• October 10th and 11th- Fall Break
• October 16th- Picture Day
• October 24th- Field Trip- McCall's Pumpkin Patch
• October 25th- Harvest Fest 6-8pm
• October 31st- Costume Parade 1:30

Congratulations student council representatives!

Congratulations to our new Vice President and our class representatives!

Lynnise will be the elementary school vice-president!

Tim, Florent and Brayden will represent our class in student council. 

Way to go guys! We are excited you are representing us. 

Engineering a Ferris Wheel

As many of you know, Friday's we have the students in 4th and 5th grade switch classrooms. The teachers focus on one part of S.T.E.M./Study Skills (science, technology, engineering, mathematics). This month the topic in my classroom was E for engineering. 

September is the month the state fair is in town and what better way to celebrate, than to learn about one of the most popular fair rides: Ferris Wheels.

We learned about Mr. George Ferris and the history behind these magnificent structures. But there is no fun learning about it unless you actually get to build it. 

So students were given: toilet paper/ paper towel rolls, Popsicle sticks, string, tape, and glue. Their goal this week: build the base of their Ferris Wheel. 

As we work together to build our Ferris Wheels, we are leaning teamwork, cooperation and the engineering behind building the famous Ferris Wheel.  

Stay tuned for the final products. 

Wonderful Memories!

Wow, what a great turn out we had for Open House! It was so much fun watching parents guess what their child wants to be when they grow up and watching the kids show parents all around our classroom!
Here are two of the families that came: Kailey and Brayden with their parents. Who guessed right about what their child wants to be when they grow up?

Kailey's mom, Jennie guessed Vet, but Kailey wants to be a teacher.

 

Brayden's soon to be stepdad, Jason guessed President and Brayden's mom, Jennie guessed Archaeologist, who was right......Jennie was right! Nice job mom.



                      
Thanks again to all the families that came. It was a wonderful turn out.

Show-N-Tell: Ava
Ava brought in her Marionette this week. It was so cute how she made it walk.

Ava is explaining how she made her Marionette.

She is making him walk. Cool!

Honoring September 11th, 2001

We proudly honored the men and women who fought and died this day 12 years ago. 

But we also got to learn about one African tribe who gave America 14 cows in honor of those who died.

We are saluting those who have helped our country, especially the Maasai tribe in Kenya who gave 14 cows to America. 

NVA Open House and so much more...

Upcoming events:
This week we have Open House. It is on Thursday, September 12th. There will be a light dinner served beginning at 5:40-6:15. You are then free to come by the classroom and hear all about the wonderful things that we have planned for the year.

Scholastic Book Fair is here!!! Our class will visit on Tuesday for ideas of any books that the students might like to purchase. On Thursday we will again visit but this time to purchase. If you plan on purchasing please send money with your child on Thursday.

I have gotten some great feedback about homework and adjusted it this week. Please feel free to leave me comments on the first page. It helps me adjust to a more manageable workload for your children. I can't emphasis enough the importance of the reading part. If for some reason your child is unable to complete a box but is able to read their 20 minutes. I am okay with this. But please note in the comments section.

Show-n-tell last week:

Brayden shared his Yugio cards. I was amazed at the number of cards he has. He even has some from Japan. WOW!

"Water" cards

Brayden has over a hundred cards!

Thanks for sharing Brayden.