{Karate Respect Lesson}

On Friday we had a special visitor from Bobby Lawrence Karate School. Te in our class was excited to see his uncle there, who taught us some important things. We talked about learning to focus. Focusing at home, school, and during sports. We talked about respect and learned a few karate moves. Here are a few pictures from the assembly.

{Heat and Light- UV Beads}

This week we did an experiment with UV Beads. All of the students were given 6 beads to put on a piece of string which we made into bracelets. We made predictions based on what we thought would happen to a bead if we took it into the sun. It was exciting to go outside on a sunny day and see the beads change to 6 different colors.

{Next Week Reminders!}

Throughout the week please send in your BOXTOPS. A easy way to gather them is to ask your relatives if they can look through their pantry and cut them out for you. We have collected over 200 so far, and hopefully we can continue to bring more in each day.

On Thursday October 1st:
September Reading Calendars will be due. Please send those to school on Thursday or on Friday with your child's homework folders.
Also due on the 1st is your September book report. I've already received a few, please keep them coming!

Friday October 2nd:
Sally Foster Cookie Dough fundraiser money needs to be turned in. All money needs to come in that day. The cookie dough will be delivered to the school around Nov. 5th, and then distributed to the students.

Thank you so much for all of your help and support! This year has been off to a great start!

{Sign up for Parent Teacher Conferences}

Parent teacher conferences are going to be held October 7th and 8th. To sign up for the conference, you need to click on the following link. You can start scheduling a time, tomorrow September 23rd and can do it until September 30th. If you have any questions please email me.

{Boxtops Contest}

Today we also started out competition to bring in the most boxtops. Please send these in with your child to school each day. We will be collecting them for the competition until the week of October 19th. The winning class gets a Banana Split party. The school will continue to collect them even after that date, so please keep sending them! Here is a link to the boxtops website- there is a link that will tell you what products have boxtops and also coupons for their products. Hope this is helpful for you!

{Cookie Dough}

Today we had an assembly to introduce our Cookie Dough Fundraiser. We appreciate all of the parents who help out with school fundraisers. The fundraiser begins today and will end in two weeks. The final payments are due on October 2nd. Checks need to be written to Vineyard Elementary. The cookie dough will be sent to our school around the 5th of November. Thank you for all of your help and support!

{Fall is in the Air}

This week for our art project/fun Friday, we used construction paper to color leaves. It was fun to use different colors on the same paper. We had some beautiful leaves in our classroom.

{Spirit Day Fridays}

Just a reminder to wear red on Friday's. We have had a great turn out with students wearing red. It is fun to have school spirit and if we have enough students, we will win the spirit award for the week! Here are the students who wore red last week:

Double Dose

On Friday I sent home a few notes for double dosing. Students needing extra help with number sense will be getting that help this following week. They will be pulled out for a few minutes during the school day, and have the option of going during the small group time. They can go to Mr. Eagers class during the hour they are NOT in our class. If you can make it work out, please have your child go during the small group time. It will be of great help, and it is an awesome program we have. If you have any questions, please let me know.

{Look for the Yellow Note}

Tomorrow, Wednesday, September 16th I will be sending home a NEON Yellow note to each parent. This note explains what we have been doing in class, and will update you on your child's progress. Please check backpacks and take a look at the note!

Thanks!!!

{Sentence Review Game}

Today to prepare for end of our sentence unit, we played a game that had to deal with different sentence types. The students had a partner and they had to listen to a sentence being read and pick the punctuation. Here are a few pictures of the class as they play.

{Light and Paper Experiment}

Last week we each took 2 pieces of construction paper. We cut out shapes and designs from one and glued them onto the other paper. I put them in the window, and then we made predictions.

"The paper will get tan, like our skin!"
"The paper will melt."
"The paper will turn blackish/brown."
"The paper will change colors."

On Monday we took the papers out of the window and were suprised to see that the paper had faded. When we peeled off the pieces we had glued on, we found that it was the original color underneath. It was pretty exciting!

Patriot Day

Today we started out our day with an assembly. We were able to see our school flag retired. It was an awesome experience and the flag was presented to Mrs. Alhstrom. She has been teaching at Vineyard for over 30 years.
It was a very neat experience and it was followed by President Obama's speech. He talked about staying in school, being responsible for ourselves, and working hard. It was a great speech to help all the students be more motivated about the upcoming school year.
We are finishing up our Number Sense unit which includes: Place Value, Rounding, Comparing Numbers, and Number Patterns. We played a game of Jeopardy to review for our test next week.
In the afternoon for art, we used pieces of colored tin foil to cover a picture of the flag. It was a lot of fun, and something new for the class. Hope you enjoy the pictures!