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Another busy day in E4. Right off the bat we brought Red Ribbon Week to life once again. We had a group of Skyview kids come in and talk about the club called SADD. It stands for Students Against Destructive Decisions. They shared how their club puts on fun activities for all students like the Corn Maze, bowling, and an end of the year lock in party! They are all about being friends to everyone, and about saying NO to drugs, alcohol, and negative choices. They are leaders in their school, and many kids trust them enough to bring them their problems. These kids help other kids make choices that are positive for long term instead of short term. I encourage you to remind them to join this club when they get to Skyview. Sounds like a great organization to be involved in!!!!
After that, we went right into our Safety assembly. Mr. English and Mrs. Neese brought in some instructors from the Marital Arts Academy of Billings. With the recent event in Cody where the young girl was lured into a car by a stranger using a "lost puppy" tactic, they wanted to just remind kids about stranger danger and how to defend themselves. As you can see from the slide show, McKenzy shows us the best way to ward off a predator. Have your child show you how to say no and yell for help if approached by a stranger. It was very powerful. If they can do it with a serious face and tone, write NO in the planner for $20 tomorrow. They encouraged us as parents to practice this at home, so kids get past the silly part of it and focus on the real deal. The instructors said that the most powerful weapon on a kids body is their voice. They also shared and demonstrated that if grabbed by a stranger, your kid should sit down and start kicking and yelling for help. This usually brings enough attention that the attacker will flee. Scary stuff, but so so real and Cody is just a hop, skip, and a jump away from us. :0( Hopefully, your child will feel more safe now if they are ever in this situation.
In math we are continuing to review and work on those two by one digit multiplication. Seems like the kids are doing well with it when they have their multiplication charts nearby. However, there are many that will struggle on the NWEA and MONTCas test when they are not allowed to use those anymore. They need to memorize their facts. We will start one minute timings next week. Kids will not be allowed to use the charts then either. Practice, practice, practice.
Our water cycle stories are coming along. Daniel and Alyssa shared theirs in class today. Hilarious!!! All other kids shared theirs with a partner. We wrote Drippy's condensation paragraph today to model my expectations for today's homework. Kids should have their raindrop in the sky tonight and joining up with others to form a cloud. Next up tomorrow, precipitation! Remember, all raindrop crafts are due this Friday. Please, please, please continue to edit those each night. I see lots of parent marks for spelling and grammar issues and I am loving it!!! I couldn't do it without ya!!!
Just a reminder that next Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday are half days for conferences. I will send home your conference time tomorrow. I tried very hard to get the time that everyone asked for. If you can't make it to the conference at the given time, please call the OFFICE as they make all the changes. Thanks.
Next Wednesday is also Halloween. We don't do costumes at Bitterroot. It is business as usual, except their teacher (me) will be one year older. Yep, I was born on Halloween!!! Was I trick or a treat??? Knowing this might explain some things to you huh!!! We will have our bake sale as planned. So many of you committed to baking and that is so, so awesome!! Please send the treats in that morning with your child. We just don't have room to store them otherwise. Remember, the sky is the limit on that Halloween creativity!!! Thanks so much for your help. Bake sales always help pay for those fun field trips we take.
Tomorrow we will give drugs the slip! Kids may wear their slippers to school tomorrow for $50. It is also the day we will watch our Little House on the Prairie movie. We will serve popcorn and a drink (caffenee free). This is a great day, because we get to see how drugs not only effect that drug doers life, but the entire families. We will discuss that issue at length tomorrow after the show.
Well, enjoy the stache and drug free show! You will also see the kids climbing the Empire State Building (ask them!) and we also stopped at the Hershey Chocolate Factory in Hershey, PN today in class. Yum! Have a wonderful night!
