Students are working on drawing still lives in Art.  

Students are working on drawing still lives in Art.  

Autumn & Scarlet practice multiplication using playing cards.  

Iqra & Haylee practice multiplication together.  

Aniya & Ivy work as a team to solve an equation.  

Parker & Monissa play Addition War.  

Christian & Matthew play Addition War.  

Happy Halloween! 

Parker pulls a string from the pumpkin pinata. 

Students use brooms to sweep pumpkins across the classroom.  

Students use brooms to sweep pumpkins across the classroom.  

C.J. & Monissa enjoy some delicious spiders. 

Check out our great costumes? 

Check out our great costumes! 

Oh hey, black cats! 

Aniya & Autumn work together to make spider webs.  

Check out our great costumes!

• Friday, October 30th:   there is no school.  Happy Halloween! 
• Sign up here to help with Adopt-a-Family, a school-wide program that helps Crestwood families during the holiday season. 
• Monday, November 2nd:  Chess Club, Girls on the Run
• Tuesday, November 3rd:  Environmental Club
• Wednesday, November 4th:  Girls on the Run, 4th Grade Girl Scouts
• Thursday, November 5th:  Choir Club

...to parents who attended Parent Teacher Conferences this week.  I learned so much more about your child and family while visiting with you, and sharing your child's academic and behavioral strengths as well as ways to improve.
...to parents who donated money and/or items to help make our Halloween party a success.  We had a blast celebrating with our friends today!

• Sign up here to help with Adopt-a-Family, a school-wide program that helps Crestwood families during the holiday season. 
• Red Ribbon Week is next week!
• On Monday, wear red.
• On Tuesday, wear your favorite college apparel.  
• On Wednesday, wear crazy socks.  Students will also take their walking field trip to City Hall on this day. 
• Parent Teacher Conferences will take place on Monday & Tuesday of next week from 4:00-7:30 pm.  
• Crestwood will host a Book Fair on Tuesday-Thursday of next week.  Students will be able to visit during their recess or other selected times throughout the day.
• The Incredible Pizza lunch & limousine ride will take place on Wednesday for students who met the sales goal during our fundraiser. 
• Our Halloween party is next Thursday, October 29th.  
• The parade begins at 1:30 pm, and classroom parties are 2:00-3:00 pm.  
• Fun activities are planned, but parent help is needed to make it a success.  Sign up here to send in an item on Monday OR make a small donation of $3.  A sturdy straw broom is also needed for a game.  
• Thank you so much for helping out! 
• There is no school on Friday, October 30th.  

...to all who collected and sent in toilet paper and paper towel rolls for our November craft!
...to Mrs. Essick for organizing and bagging our field trip snacks!
...to Mrs. Essick, Mrs. Hart, Ms. Winebrinner, and Mrs. Dempsey for chaperoning our field trip.  We had a wonderful day learning more about Missouri Native Americans.
...to parents that have donated items for our Halloween party! 

Students in Miss Howe's  & Miss Dausmann's classes learn that Walt Disney didn't let his learning differences prevent him from having an extremely successful career.  

Students held items that represented different celebrities who had learning disabilities.  

Students pose with our new friend, Scott, after we learned so many great facts about people living with Down's Syndrome.  

Sanni & Ivy work together to prepare for their spelling test.  

Autumn gives Kamden some encouragement while they study together.  

"I'm going to hold up a number one because I was the first one to make it to the top of the mound!" Sanni exclaimed before he posed with Madison, Kate, & Abby.

Haylee, Iqra, Scarlet, Monissa, Autumn, Sanni, C.J., and Christian can hardly contain their excitement at the top of Monk's Mound.  

The class poses before they made the 100+ step hike at Cahokia Mounds.  

• Be sure took discuss your child's Weekly Reflection, sign, and return on Monday. 
• Our field trip to Cahokia Mounds is next Wednesday, and we are so excited!  All students will need to bring a sack lunch for this day, as we will be eating a late lunch when we return about 1:30 pm.  Snacks will be provided during the day.  
• Abilities Awareness day is next Friday at Crestwood.  Students in grades 3-5 will learn from veterans, specialists, guests with disabilities, and others.  In the past few years, this has a been a great day for students to learn more about diversity and compassion. 
• Parent Teacher Conferences are coming up soon.  I will send a confirmation note on Monday.  
• We are in need for toilet paper, wrapping paper, and paper towel cardboard rolls for a project we'll do in November.  Please send them in anytime between now and November 13th.  

• Monday, 10/19
• Chess Club after school 
• Girls on the Run after school 
• Wednesday, 10/121
• Cahokia Mounds Field Trip, sack lunch required 
• Girls on the Run after school 
• 4th Grade Girl Scouts after school 
• Friday, 10/23
• Abilities Awareness Day 

...for collecting and sending in Box Tops for Education!  2nd Grade barely beat us this time around, but we know all Box Tops benefit the entire school.
...in advance to Mrs. Essick for organizing and bagging our field trip snacks for next week!
...in advance to Mrs. Essick, Mrs. Hart, Ms. Winebrinner, and Mrs. Dempsey for chaperoning our field trip.  We can't wait to explore Cahokia.
...Mrs. Brendel for teaching us more about personal hygiene and for helping us to track our progress in this area.  

Parker shares her Star of the Week news with the class.

Social Studies

Ivy & Monissa work together to create a poster during Social Studies.  

Brenden & Madison research early Missourians.  

Haylee & Iqra research the first Missourians.  

Writer's Workshop

     Students are publishing their Realistic Fiction stories using Google Documents.  Students spent time adding transition phrases and synonyms for "said" to their writing.  They edited for 4th grade quality punctuation and capitalization.  Look for a writing celebration invitation soon!

Math

     In Math, we continued studying the relationship between multiplication and division.  Students learned some rules and properties of both operations, and they practiced generating factors and multiples of different numbers.   

Reader's Workshop
     Students created their own Word Harvests in their Reading Journals.  This is a place for them to record new, interesting words and use the book's context clues to infer the meaning. 

• Be sure took discuss your child's Weekly Reflection, sign, and return on Monday. 
• A permission slip for our field trip to Cahokia Mounds is coming home today.   Please sign and return the permission slip & $6 at your earliest convenience.  
• Miss Kemper, an MU student teacher, will be observing and helping in our classroom over the next two weeks.  We are excited to have another teacher to help us grow and to support her as she learns more about education! 

• Monday, 10/12
• Chess Club after school 
• Girls on the Run after school 
• Wednesday, 10/14
• Girls on the Run after school 
• Thursday, 10/15
• Star of the Week lunch
• Friday, 10/16
• Flyer Families during the school day
• Half Day, students release @ 11:50 am, no lunch will be served

...for collecting and sending in Box Tops for Education!  

Ivy learns a brand new skill on ALEKS.

Parker teaches the class about her cat, Squirrel. 

Christian shared his Skylander collection at last week's Show & Tell party.  

Scarlet shows off her American Girl doll.  

Kamden shares a picture of his father who served in the military.  

Miss Dausmann's dog, Sophie, rests in her kennel during the Show & Tell Party.  

Jayden showed off his Snow Leopard Gecko.  

During class meetings this week, we spent time talking about gratitude.  Gratitude means showing appreciation for the simple things we already have, rather than following our brain's instinct to always want more.  Gratitude also means expressing sincere thanks when others do something nice for you.

• There will be no Weekly Reflection coming home today.  With such an exciting Friday, we just couldn't squeeze it in! 

• Monday, 10/05
• Chess Club after school 
• Culver's Night 5:00-8:00 pm, Miss Dausmann will be delivering concretes from 6:00-7:00 pm! 
• Wednesday, 10/07
• Girls Scouts after school 

...to parents who helped us celebrate our great behavior by having Show & Tell today!  I appreciate you helping your child to pick just the right item to bring, whether it was a toy, photo, or furry friend.  We had a blast! 

...to parents who volunteered at Cultural Day or Night to help make it a success.  Crestwood is unique because we have students from all over the world. We love celebrating our differences, and this day is successful year after year because of our volunteers. 

Star of the Week

Madison shares her newspaper with the class. 

Library

Because Wednesday was Picture Day, Mr Stevens came to our classroom for Library.  He filled us in on our library's new inhabitant, Shell the Turtle.  Shell loves hearing poetry by Shel Silverstein, and Mr. Stevens encouraged kids to stop by and read a poem or two to our new pet. 

Writer's Workshop

Monissa uses a whisper phone to reread her Realistic Fiction story to find a place to add her character's inner thinking.  

Sanni takes a break from trying a Full Circle ending to smile for the camera.  

Science
Mrs. Branding taught students more about the scientific method this week.  Students completed a salt water investigation and practiced measuring the height of bouncing ping pong balls on different surfaces.

Christian's group closely monitors the height a ping pong ball will bounce.


Scarlet & C.J.'s group make sure their yard stick is standing straight up from the ground.


Kamden & Parker's group test the ball on the carpet.


Brenden leads his team in measuring the ball's height from a yoga mat.