Buckaroo News for November 10th - 14th

This has been one of the busiest weeks of our year so far!  We celebrated Veteran's Day, Dads Dudes and Doughnuts, Book Fair, Spell-a-Thon and Multicultural Day!!  We are continuing to learn all we can about the Pilgrims, Native Americans and the First Thanksgiving.  We are very excited about our upcoming program and hope that all of you can make it!

The Spell-A-Thon papers are coming home with your child tonight.  If you decide to donate money for each word spelled correctly just put the money in the folder and return in the next couple of weeks.

Progress reports will be coming home soon.  I've already put quite a few grades into Progress Book.  Please let me know if you have any questions at all.

I'm trying something new with the math homework.  I'm only sending it on an as-needed basis.  After each lesson I check your child's workmat to see if there are any confusions.  If there are, I meet with your child to review and then I'll attach a practice sheet to the workmat.  It does not need to be returned as it is for your child and not for me:).  

Next week's schedule:  Today was A day even though we didn't have specials.  Monday - NO SCHOOL   Tuesday - B Day  Wednesday - C Day  Thursday - D Day   Friday - A Day  Monday - B Day

These girls and boys were making Veteran people for our class to hang up for decorations.  On that day it was also Dads, Dudes and Doughnuts.  On Veteran's Day the U.S.A. was very quiet on the 11th hour on the 11th day and the 11th month.  We were quiet to give the people who were fighting for our country and good feeling.  

We are writing in our Pilgrim journals.  We are wearing our Pilgrim hats made out of paper.  We are acting like our Pilgrims and this boy is holding a pencil with an feather on it but it is called a quill.  We were writing about what they ate on the Mayflower.  They ate dried bread and everyone drank beer including the children.  The babies drank milk from their mamas.  They only had a weeks worth of fresh water and after that the water wasn't safe to drink.  This boy's Pilgrim name is Francis Cooke.

This girl is wearing a bonnet which is called a coif.  This girl is also writing in her Pilgrim journal about the food.  Her Pilgrim name is Mary Brewster.

This girl is teaching about her thinking about a story problem in her math journal.  We are now using our document camera to share at the end of math workshop.  She showed us a double fact which made her thinking easy to understand.

Today was Multicultural Day at SCE.  We are doing a taste test of foods from different countries.  One of the boys who is allergic to peanut butter was able to get food that didn't have peanut butter in it.  

We are trying out new foods from around the world.  We could only pick three things.  Some of our favorites were gingerbread from Germany, edamame from Japan, and these yellow sweets from Colombia.

One boy was eating chocolate from Russia.  

We are eating the food that we picked out from the different countries.  

Yummy!!!!

We got photo-bombed by Mrs. Schwanke!!!!!  

This is Tony West and the Imani Dancers.  

She is dancing with the children.

Some of the boys and girls from our class got to play the drums!

Mrs. Mazur taught us all about her country, Italy!  Mrs. McNeal wants to go there someday.  This country is shaped like a boot.  It has mountains AND beaches.  We got to try gelato!  It was so good!