"Dreaming of a Bully-Free School"

Friday, October 30 will be a pajama day for Brown Elementary. We've been discussing creating a bully-free environment in which to learn and learn at our best! All students are encouraged to wear their favorite jammies and slippers on Friday!

Lyrics

As we begin our study of poetry, we're relating the music/songs we love to the art of writing poetry. Poetry and song lyrics share rhythm, stanzas/verses, meaning/emotion, and sometimes rhyming. Here are a few sites where you will find song lyrics to print. Each person must bring at least ONE song's lyrics by Friday, October 30.

***BE sure to include the artists/musicians of the song, the title of the song, and the source in which you retrieved the song.

http://www.lyricsfreak.com
http://www,geocities.com/islandlyrics
http://www.sweetlyrics.com
http://www.lyricsty.com
http://www.lyricsmania.com
http://www.elyrics.net
http://www.sing365.com

"We Don't Like Those Bullies" Link

http://www.teachertube.com/files/music/41bfd20a38bb1b0.mp3

Enjoy the tune to keep a bully-free school!

Ice Cream Experiment-Due 11/5

A relevant-to-real-world science experiment went home with the students last week. Each child will complete one of a few options using the scientific method we've discussed thoroughly in class. The project information is located inside your child's homework folder, and the project is due by Thursday, November 5. Presentations to Joe, the Ice Cream Man, will take place that afternoon since there will not be school on Friday, November 6.

I have also attached the information to our class website which can be accessed at www.brownsburg.k12.in.us/brown. Go to the staff list and locate our link.

Play-dough project

During the first week of November, we have a special project planned for social studies—making salt dough maps! Students will create dough maps illustrating each of the three regions of Indiana using different colors of play-dough. In order to do this, we need each student to bring in one container of colored play-dough. If you can send in more than one container, that would be greatly appreciated! Thank you so much!

Mrs. Hill

"How many of me" website link

http://howmanyofme.com/search/

Mrs. Hill gets a flu shot . . .

We're all doing our part to stay healthy this season!

Garmet Sales End Wednesday

The Garment Sale ends Wednesday, October 21. Please access the following website to print an order form if you plan to purchase any items. Send the form to school by tomorrow.

http://www.brownsburg.k12.in.us/brown/schoolforms.asp

Red Ribbon Week October 19-21

Monday begins our week for a drug free life! Red Ribbon Week will begin with an exercise theme on Monday, so wear your comfy clothes to "get fit" with being drug-free! Tuesday is a purple and white bulldog day and Wednesday is a red day . . . wear as much red as possible to celebrate being drug-free!

Arrow Book Club Order

A book club catalog/order form went home today with all students. We will be placing this book order on Monday, October 19. If you wish to purchase books from the club, please send a check (made out to Scholastic Books) or cash for the total amount of the items you wish to purchase. All book purchases will go toward receiving NEW books for our classroom since Scholastic is offering some really great deals for teachers with this month's orders.

***If you wish to purchase any items for the upcoming holidays, please seal the envelope and indicate this within so that I can contact parents when the order arrives. I wouln't want to ruin the surprise!

Upcoming Events

Wednesday, October 14 is the last day of the grading period. All grades will be updated by Friday for these nine weeks' report card.

Wednesday, October 21 is the day that all report cards will be able to be accessed online for families and students.

Wednesday, October 21 is also our Fall Party day! Mrs. Falcone, Mrs. Lee, and Mrs. Preda are working very diligently prepare for the party. Please send in all donations as soon as possible! The party will begin at 2:45 in our classroom, Room 218.

Thursday and Friday, October 22 and 23 are Fall Break days off of school! Head to the pumpkin patch, go to a festival, or hang out in some other way with your family at least one of those days! Make it special, kids, for your parents, too!

Singing in Science!

We discovered a new song today about the Scientific Method! We've been singing it (or maybe it's just Mrs. Hill singing) all morning to learn that the Scientific Method is just a way to solve a problem (or question)!

Follow this link to hear the song and sing along with your family! Just remember PHP-OAC!
http://www.lyricallearning.com/songs/scimethod.mp3

McDonald's Monopoly Game

We have decided as a class that we'd like to play the Monopoly game with the game pieces, just for fun, as a class. We will have a game board here at school in which to apply the property stickets. If you DO NOT plan to play along at home, we'd really appreciate all of the properties we can collect! We will keep everyone updated as to our progress of getting as many properties as we can before it's too late . . .

Open House BIG THANKS!

We had 100% of the students in attendance last night at Open House! I appreciate everyone taking a look at their child's work and scavenging around the room and the building for your child! I also had 100% of the parents sign up for a conference time and you have no idea how much I appreciate that--it saves me a lot of time so that I can spend it with your children!

I am looking forward to sitting down with parents in November to discuss each child's individual goals, academics, and any other areas we wish to discuss. Enjoy your weekend!

Open House & Art Fair

I'm looking forward to seeing all of your smiling faces again tonight from 6:30 to 7:30 at our Open House and Art Fair. Please be sure to sign up for conferences in November!

Fuzzy Dice for T-Shirts

Since we're the DICESQUAD, we thought we should show up "in-style" for our Survivor Teamwork Challenge next Friday. However, we've been in search for the pink dice iron-on patches (see picture) to iron onto our shirts and we're coming up short. If you are out at Michaels, Wal-Mart, Jo-Anns, or other similar stores, and you happen upon these patches, would you please pick them up and you WILL be refunded? Send them to school as you can! Thank you!