• Friday, November 20th
• Midterm reports are coming home today; please review, sign, and return on Monday.  
• Monday, November 23rd
• Crestwood's Support-a-Family continues, donate cleaning products this week.  
• Chess Club after school 
• Wednesday, November 25th-Friday, November 27th
• No school; Happy Thanksgiving! 
• Monday, November 30th
• Support-a-Family continues; please donate personal care/toiletry items.
• Chess Club after school 
• Academic All-Stars @ LHS @ 6:00 pm 
• Thursday, December 3rd
• Wacky Hair Day to benefit Support-a-Family; bring $1 to donate & participate.  
• Strings Concert @ 6:00 pm 
• Friday, December 4th
• Happy birthday, Aniya! 

• If you would like to order a new Flyer Family t-shirt for your child, please send $10 and your child's size to Miss D.  I will communicate your child's family name and color for an order that will be placed next week.  

..to my sweet friend, Mrs. Nicas, for coming to visit on Monday.  We loved taking time to exercise our creative muscles with painting, writing, stamping, snacking, sticking, and more.  

Mr. D.C. supervises while Crestwood students introduce their Veteran.  

Guest Veterans watch the introductions. 

We salute you, Ms. Winebrinner! 

Haylee and Christian listed things and people they are grateful for.  

Ivy & Aniya show off the flags they created.  

Students made book bags to take home.  

During Flyer Families this week, students pained ceiling tiles!  Mr. Dave is going to be working hard over the next few days to get these on display! 

Reader's Workshop

     This week, we've been practicing our reading fluency.  Fluent readers practice repeated reading until it sounds smooth.  They know many words by heart and use expression.  Fluent readers speak clearly and audibly.  We created fluency folders to house different poems, passages, songs, and speeches that we'll use to practice our fluency.

Monies & Abby practice repeated reading together. 

We used "Today I had a Rotten Day" by Ken Nesbitt to practice pausing for punctuation and phrasing words together. 

Writer's Workshop

     We learned so much about essays by studying one from a student who thinks we shouldn't watch too much TV.  We noticed she included a thesis, or main idea.  She also used transition words to share 3 supporting details.  Essays are written in first person, and the author is usually passionate about the topic.  Students used a box & bullets to plan an essay about an inspiring person.  

Math

     We worked SO HARD with two digit multiplication this week!  We know it's one of fourth grade's toughest skills and just takes a lot of practice to master, so that's what we did! Students did the area model and traditional method while playing Monkey Multiplication.  We also used clothespins to track multiples to keep their basic skills sharp.  Finally, we noticed that Rocket Math is really paying off; we are getting pretty quick (and accurate)!  

C.J. & Iqra show off their Face the Math exercises. We solve problems and follow the according directions to draw and color the picture.

Autumn, Sanni, Scarlet, & Jayden practice making multiples. 

Science

     Students began working with Mrs. Branding again this week and learned about the 4 layers of the Earth.  Ask your kiddo to describe each layer to you!