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!