Happy Halloween!!!!

Halloween week is always a week full of anticaption and excitement and this year was no different.  The students energy level is at an all time high waiting for today's parade and party!  However we did manage to get in a bit of learning.  Our essential question was "What can annimals in stories teach us?"  We read fables including "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" and "Wolf, Wolf".  Each fable we learned teaches a lesson or moral.  We also discussed how the animals in fables act like humans.  We worked on making predictions and identifying the problem and solution in the stories as well.

In math we have continued to work with place value.  We are working on correctly spelling number words too.  We are really trying to make students understand the values of the digits in each number.

In science we made rollers.  We used disks and straws and tried to make a straight roller, wobbly, and rolllers that curve.  The students loved exploring with the rollers and ramps.

In Social Studies we explored the origins of suburban towns in the USA.  We read about the Levitts and how they took farm land and built house for soldiers who had just returned from WWII and wanted to start families.  We also worked in groups this week in which each group made a college for either an urban, suburban or rural community.

Writing this week was all about Halloween.  We started the week with designing and writing about what students thought I should be for Halloween.  On Wednesday we read the story of the "Ugly Pumpkin".  This story is about a pumpkin who doesn't look like the other pumpkins and they tease and make fun of him.  He figures out by the end that he is actually a squash.  Students wrote about a time when they felt "Squashed" and made their own ugly pumpkin.  

Hope that you all have a wonderful weekend!  Don't forget that next week is a short week.  Students only have school on Monday and Tuesday!