• 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.