Halloween Party October 27th! I will have goody bags for the students. Please bring in a “treat” to share with each bag. We will spend from 10:00-12:00 learning pumpkin etching, roasting pumpkin seeds, showing off our costumes, and eating lunch! I will provide pizza and salad/carrot sticks for lunch.
As part of our agricultural education, we will be hatching chicken eggs! I drove out to Garry Farm on Friday to pick up three dozen fertile eggs. I had to be very careful with our precious cargo. They rode in the front seat, in a booster seat, with their seat belt on! The kids have been learning in Science about fertilization and Life Cycles. Now, we will actually experience this cycle for ourselves! 
The fertile eggs were put into the incubator Friday night. It takes roughly 21 days for the fertile eggs to develop full grown embryos. However, I have often had chicks begin hatching on day 20. Therefore, we are hopefully going to get to see some of our chicks hatch out of their shells on Thursday, November 3rd. In the meantime, we will be candling the eggs a few times along the way to track the embryonic development. Our first candling will be on Thursday, which will be day 6 of development. I will send home information Thursday on the process!
Spanish- We worked on our menus today for Spanish Night! After a review of the words we already know, Ms. Joanne helped us learn all of the words that we needed to know to create the menus. Spanish night will be November 3rd at 6:00 here at the schoolhouse.
Grammar- The adjective lessons continue! We already learned that adjectives can tell what kind, which one, how many, and whose. Adjectives also can be articles: a, an, & the! The students learned that these articles work as adjectives, and that you use “an” before a noun that begins with a vowel. In addition to this, we learned to add adjectives to our simple sentence diagrams. Spelling- We discussed the spellings of each word in List 9, made up sentences using each one, and played “popcorn” with them! Repetition, repetition, repetition!
Poetry- The kids are doing such a good job memorizing “The Duel”! We are going to try to have the entire poem down by November 10th, so we can get started making our “movie”!
Math- Today, we did a review of line segments. We discussed horizontal, vertical, and oblique line segments. Also, we measured different things, using both inches/feet and the metric system. Because Teaching Textbooks will be using inches/feet on Friday, we went over the conversions and used rulers. However, we also used centimeters and meters to measure, as well. The students were able to convert meters to centimeters and even compare the two, for instance, they had to tell me if 230cm is less than, greater than, or equal to 2m 40cm. They did a fabulous job!
Social Studies- The students continued their lesson on the Columbian Exchange. Be sure to bring all of your handouts with you each day, as we refer back to them often!
Art- Ms. Nancy continued teaching about warm and cool colors today. The students worked on their projects from two weeks ago, painting “warm” or “cool” scenes.
Music- Once again, our fabulous children have wowed us with their awesome practicing! Most can play "Be Still and Know" with both hands!
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