December 6th, 7th, and 8th. Community School will host it's annual book fair. This year we will be hosting a Scholastic Book Fair on campus as well as working with Amazon.
In keeping with the Scholastic Book Fair's theme, Super Heroes, the Globetrotters would like to invite you to a Super Hero's lunch on Tuesday the 7th. We will be serving Hero Sandwiches, Villainous Veggies, and Super Soup. After lunch our students will perform with Kim Mucha. Then off to class they will fly so you can do some super sneaky holiday shopping. Please call or email us if you are planning to attend so we can make sure we have enough food.
This week we have gone south. In science and social studies we have started studying South America. In Keri's class kids are focusing on the rain forest. In Katie's class we are focusing on Santa Cruz, Bolivia where our exchange students are from.
In math, Keri's students played a great button game that focused on regrouping and place value. Brown buttons represented 10's and white buttons represented 1's. Kids shopped using brown buttons to purchase items and were given change in white buttons. Today they put that knowledge to work subtracting two digit numbers with regrouping.
In Katie's class, we have been focused on the school store this week. We have done inventory, counted money, used subtraction to figure out how much of each item we have sold, estimated next week's profits, and set goals for our business. Kids are filling out a weekly chart that helps us keep track of sales so that we can make decisions about purchasing and marketing.
The kids have been reading away. In Keri's class they are sorting words with the "short a" sound. We are adding new sight words to our reading library each week as well. Katie's group is playing literacy games that focus on blends, digraphs, plurals, and contractions. Today students traced sight words on each others' backs. We also are finishing our "Surprise Sack" paragraphs. Students are super excited to have their classmates guess what is inside their imaginary sack.
On Friday, November 19th we will be taking the train to South America! We will be visiting the VA Museum of Transportation, the O. Winston Link Museum, and having lunch at Alejandro's. Please make sure your child's Alejandro's order is turned in by Monday with their $5.00 payment.
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