• Please make sure your child is fully prepared for the cold.  A winter coat, gloves, and a hat are a must.  A scarf, boots, and snowpants are also good. We go outside as long as it is above 15 degrees with the wind chill.  When the snow is sticking, only students with snowpants and boots will be allowed to go in the grass. (all other students will be required to stay on the blacktop).  Along with boots for outside, please remember to send shoes for inside the classroom.
• For planning/shopping purposes, I wanted to let you know that we will be doing a book exchange with the students right before break starts.  Students who want to participate will need to bring a book (wrapped) that they think would be of interest to their classmates.  I will send home more info when it gets closer 🙂

Tomorrow is our turn to shop at the Holiday Boutique!  If you are not familiar with it, this is a chance for your child to purchase gifts for family members.  An envelope came home last week for you to fill out and put money in if your child is going to shop.  If you don’t have the envelope, but want to shop, we will need a list of people they are buying for.  If they are buying for sisters/brothers, please make sure you write down their age and name.  Everything in the shop is $2.

I would like to give the kids a chance to wrap their gifts before they come home. We will wrap gifts Wednesday, so don’t panic when they don’t bring them home tomorrow.  If anyone is willing to come in Wednesday around 1:00 to help the students wrap their gifts, that would be amazing!!!!!!  We also need donations of tape, wrapping paper, and gift tags if anyone can help with that.

P.S.  We had an amazing time making brownies the other day.  Pics to come soon…

Study guides for math and social studies are coming home today.  Both tests will be next Tuesday.

Ms. Philips did make a review for SS that you can play at home. (You need Powerpoint on your computer to play) unit-2-review

If for some reason, they didn’t make it home in your child’s folder today, you can always click on the links below:

u3-study-guide (math)

social-studies-review

Here is a look at our upcoming week:

Tuesday:

• Otis Spunkmeyer fundraiser deadline

Wednesday:

• Late start (9:35)
• Picture retakes
• Parent-Teacher conferences after school

Thursday:

• Parent-Teacher conferences after school

Plus:

• So far, so good, on the food drive 🙂  We have a total of 81 cans so far.  Our goal is 120 – I know we can do it!!!  Thanks to everyone who has donated so far and if you haven’t, please consider doing so.  The food drive goes until next Tuesday, Nov. 22nd.
• We had a great time on our field trip last Friday to the Michigan Science Center!! Thank you for helping that trip be successful – I know there wasn’t a whole lot of time for permission slips and money to be turned in.

Tomorrow there will be mixed vegetables served with lunch, NOT mashed potatoes.

Lots written in our planners today…permission slips, library books, gym shoes, food drive, reading bags, and pencil/eraser sale…whew!

We had an extremely important election today in school 🙂

The students and I were chatting about their turkeys this morning.  Some of them asked me if I could show them the examples again.  I thought I would post these so you have some examples, too.  There are lots more pictures on my blog from previous years if you just search “turkey” (the search button is in the top, right corner) – or you could always google “turkey disguise” if you need some inspiration 🙂

• Tomorrow is a 1/2 day of school, so students will be dismissed at 11:45.
• Tomorrow is also the last day for students to turn in their October reading calendars (the one where they colored the cats). This is entered as a grade in gradebook.  They needed to read at least 21 days in October to earn their points and pizza certificate.
• November reading calendars came home on Tuesday.  Students should color the hat on every night that they read for at least 20 minutes. Again, they must have at least 21 hats colored to earn their points and certificate at the end of the month.
• Since I was trained over the summer in Project Lead the Way curriculum, we have an opportunity for a field trip with Ms. Martin’s class to the Michigan Science Center next week.  We are trying to secure a bus before I can confirm that we are going for sure.  The cost will be around $11. Chaperones have already been taken care of. The Science Center will only allow us to have 2 per classroom.  We are trying very hard to confirm this by tomorrow so I can send home the permission slip asap. Obviously, I will let you know when I know for sure.