Spooky

Mrs. Barnes read a Halloween story to us about a witch. She set the mood for the spooky story by turning off the lights and building suspense while reading. The kids loved it! After the story she asked for some spooky, Halloween sounds.

Evanson shows Mrs. Barnes his spooky sound. Thank you Mrs. Barnes for reading to us.

Happy Birthday Sierra

Sierra celebrated her 7th birthday. We had lots of treats and the boys bowed down to her.

Fire Safety

The firefighters came today. They taught the kids about fire safety in a really fun way. They used puppets and songs and they even showed us their fire truck.When I asked the students what they learned, they said:

• if your clothes catch on fire stop, drop, and roll


• if you see matches or a lighter don't touch them, tell an adult


• if your house is on fire crawl out under the smoke

They learned a lot and enjoyed the presentation.

In math today the students used pattern blocks to cover an identical pattern in different ways.

Lunch With Our Favorite Athletes

Our top point earners at pizza and watched cartoons with their favorite athletes today.

Drew chose Dillan because he sometimes visits him in the locker room and Dillan is always nice to him. They asked Dillan why he always goes up the middle and he said that is where the hole is. But Drew knows from his vast experience with playing football on the Wii that usually you get tackled when you go up the middle.

Lance chose Nathan because he is so cool and nice. The boys asked Nathan to juggle the bottles but he could only juggle one!

Cal couldn't decide so he chose both Nathan and Dillan. Cal said the pizza was delicious and he had fun trying to stack bottles with Nathan and Dillan. They laughed and had a good time. Dillan and Nathan asked Drew, Cal, and Lance about girls, but the boys weren't interested in discussing that subject!

The boys said it was really fun and worth reading all those books.

Math Fun

Our cadet teacher, Skyler, leads our class in the math meeting. Rylee adds to our weather graph. They also do calendar time and count. Today we did a graphing and adding activity. The children rolled two die, added them together and then graphed the sum.

They learned to start with the highest number and count up.

When they were finished, some of the children showed their graphs to the class and told some of their observations. Eli had the most 10s. Alli had the least amount of 11s.

If you have dice at home try letting them roll them and add the two numbers.

Top Point Earners

It is the end of the first quarter and we have our top Accelerated Reader point earners. Cal was #1 with 65.2 points. That is an amazing amount of points in one quarter!! He has read and passed 143 books this year!!!

Drew and Lance came in #2 tied with exactly 34 points. This too is a great amount of points, considering we've only been doing A.R. for about 7 weeks. Great Job boys. They will eat lunch with their favorite athletes soon. Look for more pictures.

Football Homecoming

Nick and Todd are football players who came to read to our class today. They came a day early because tomorrow is Football Homecoming and the high school has a lot of things going on.They read A Color of His Own by Leo Lionni and answered questions from the kids.Then they signed autograph books and listened to all of the students stories and questions. They were very patient and kind.

Finally, some of the boys compared their muscles to Nick and Todd's! I don't know... Eli's muscles look pretty big!