Monday, November 15, 2010

Helping Others!!

Today in Morning Meeting we talked about helping those less fortunate than us and we have an opportunity to once again do that. A program called "Flakesgiving" sponsored by the 102.9 Cat Country Radio Station raises money to buy meals for families in need at Thanksgiving.
Here's how we are going to help-for the next 3 days, (Tues. -Thurs.) we will be raising money for Flakesgiving. For example your child can bring in an IPod, MP3 player and listen to music throughout the day, bring and chew gum all day, and also wear a hat/cap to school all day. Each thing they do will cost them $1.00 of real money. So if they do one they can bring $1.00, 2=$2.00, and all 3 is $3.00. Wednesday and Thursday we will have different things to do to bring money in. Then at the end of the week, I will take the money to the radio station. We also talked about what a great tie-in to Rachel's Challenge and her goal of being kind and caring for others.
So let's go Team Hankins and help out others!

Multiplication-we are working hard on those 2,3,5,9,10's so please practice on a nightly basis. On the side of the blog where you find some of my favorite websites are a few new math sites to go to and practice. I think they will be very helpful & beneficial. They are actually quite fun and the students will enjoy them.
States & capitals test-we took that today. They looked to be pretty good as I was walking around. I haven't checked them yet but hopefully they had studied. Part 2 is for homework tonight. Students are to choose 4 places we learned about in the NE and then tell what it is and 3 facts about each one. Illustrations are optional.
We started Heat & Temperature today and got to pretend we were heat molecules. Have your child tell you what a molecule is and earn $50 dollars tomorrow at Morning Meeting if you write molecule in their planner.
Have a great night.

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