We began October considering all that we are thankful for.  Our Make It Meaningful Mondays give us opportunities to share what we are thankful and grateful for while taking time to appreciate.  We try to add to a gratitude journal from time to time.  Our window display shared appreciations for the wonderful people in our lives and all the experiences we are thankful for.

We also posted our predictions related to our taste test with cranberries.  Many students thought that they would like a raw cranberry until they tasted the sour, tart taste.  Once we added sugar and made cranberry sauce in class, we found cranberries to be much more pleasant.  During our time with this fruit, we learned about bogs, harvesting and flooding the fields to release the red berry named after the bird called a Crane.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

During our first few weeks of October, we made use of our permanent markers (Sharpies) and oil pastels.  We made Autumn trees and pumpkins for our Pumpkin Patch. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We have begun our reading stamina sessions and it is such a peaceful moment in class when all Division 10 students are focused and engaged in their independent reading. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Students are also getting comfortable with the P.E. warm-up.  One student facilitates the warm-up and all other athletes follow along.  It is nice to see the teamwork taking place.

 

 

 

 

 

 

As we approach mid-October, we look forward to working with our buddy class (Ms. Benson), inviting Ms. Minoza into our room for two full weeks beginning Monday, October 23 and getting ready for Halloween.

We are now fully immersed into our Math Flights and have begun working with our Word Lists.  Students are thankful for the home support and excited to continue working toward their personal best.  Please look for our I Am Poems that will soon be displayed in our classroom windows and thank you for arriving to school on time with the morning bell ringing at 8:55 and the final bell ringing at 8:58.