Children’s Book Week

 Children's book week is right around the corner.    We will celebrate this year with the following dress-up/down days:

Monday:  November 12^th

Holiday

Tuesday:  November 13^th

Crazy Sock Day:  Our students are crazy about books!

Students may wear outrageous socks to show just how crazy they are about reading! 

 Wednesday:  November 14^th

Read’in Lock’in and Pajama Day. Participating students will need to follow

Children’s Book Week dress code for pajama day:   same guidelines as shorts

(must go to fingertips when arms are down); must wear undergarments and

if wearing a nightshirt, student must wear shorts underneath.

Guest Author program in gym:  K-2:  8:00 – 8:45 / 3-5:  9:00 – 9:45

 Thursday:  November 15^th

Sunglass Day:  It’s cool to be a good reader! 

Our readers shine and may wear sunglasses to show how much they love reading!        

       

Friday:  November 16^th

Hat Day:  Hats off to reading!

Each classroom that meets their set point and percentage goals will celebrate with a movie.  Goals will be given out at the beginning of the week.  The cutoff for this goal will be 2:00 PM Thursday.  Students that don’t contribute to the class by not taking any test should not be allowed to participate in the reward.

Candy Corn Estimation

The theme of Halloween was seen through out the day.  During Math review time, students were given a break from the usual flash cards, math games, and online math games.  Instead they reviewed estimation using candy corn.  Students were given a work sheet with three different sized bags.  First they had to estimate how many pieces of candy corn would be needed to fill each bag and write that amount on the estimation line next to the bag.  Next, they were given candy corn and they had to lay the candy corn on the bag.  Then they glued the candy corn in place.  Finally, they counted the candy corn and wrote the correct amount.  Most of the students found it very interesting that they over-estimated the amount of candy corn needed.  As a treat each student was given a handful of candy corn to eat while they worked.

Popcorn Skeleton Hands....

The students had the opportunity to create a skeleton hand made from popcorn and candy corn.  We incorporated many different tasks, from following directions to a writing exercise upon completion.  The students made their skeleton hands then they wrote a "how to" paper.  In this paper they described in detail how they created their hand.  The students were told that they needed to write the paper in such a way that if someone walked into our room they could take the paper and follow their directions to make the hand.  The second assignment they had to complete was to write 5 "3rd grade" sentences about their hand.  Not only did the sentences need to be creative, they had to also incorporate adjectives (which we have been studying this week).

Red Ribbon Week

This is Red Ribbon Week.  Monday (10/29) is mismatched sock day.  Tuesday (10/30) is pajama day and finally Wednesday (10/31) is hat day.  We kicked off Red Ribbon Week this today by wearing red, reading and signing an oath to stay drug free and ending the day with a pep rally in the gym.  The cheerleaders and step team from Lewis Fraiser Middle School came and provided entertainment.  FLE's 4th/5th grade chorus also sand a song for Red Ribbon Week.  We were visited by McGruff as well as a working drug dog, courtesy of the Liberty County Sheriff's Department.  It was amazing to see the working dog in action! 

Busy Week Ahead

There is a lot going on at FLE this week.  Mark your calendars for the following:
Monday-Wednesday~~~Red Ribbon Week
Tuesday~~~Treat NO Trick night at FLE
Thursday~~~Reading Night.  Teachers will be reading their favorite stories to students and parents that attend
Friday~~~St. Judes Dance (right after school until 4).

Frederick Douglass

Throughout this nine weeks we will learn note taking skills as well as various ways to put our notes together in a logical and workable manner.  Last week we studied Mary McCleod Bethune.  As we took notes and completed vocabulary/comprehension papers we attached them in manilla folders. 
This week we are focusing on Frederick Douglass.  We will continue to take notes as well as work with the vocabulary daily.  We are changing things up and this week we will create a DODECAHEDRON Reading Project.  A dodecahedron is a 3-D, 12 sided, geometric shape. Students will be provided with a rubric that will provide them with my expectations and what is to be included on each side of the geometric shape.

Social Studies Project

We visited the Media Center two weeks ago for classes taught by Dr. Sands.  She taught us how to use Nettrekker, Galileo, and Destiny.  During the next few weeks we will put our new knowledge to good use.  We have been researching specific American heroes.  Our class is working closely with Mrs. Smith (Computer Lab teacher) to complete the research.  Mrs. Smith will then introduce and give us lessons on how to create a power point presentation.  After we have learned all the ins and outs of power points, we will take all of the information we gathered during our research time and create a ppt. project.  After we have finished we will present out project to the class.
We are very excited to work on this project and are grateful to Dr. Sands and Mrs. Smith for their help and sharing their knowledge.