Great TGIF!

Way to end the week strong Team Hankins. We had a very positive week with so much growth being made both socially and academically. I just LOVE these kids. Thank you parents. You probably have noticed by now that the cardboard came home with a shield outline traced on it. Please please help your child cut it out and cover it with tin foil and then return them to school covered on Monday so we can complete the project here. For those that traced 2 lines, make sure you cut it out on the larger one. Thank you and thank you for doing this. Cutting cardboard with a scissors is almost impossible and needs a knife. Well of course, we can't be doing that here at school. The paper shield they made that go with our character traits are great and the kids put a lot of thought into them. I am so proud of them and can't wait to see the finished projects. You will love them too as you see them on display. This week in Reading we learned a lot about figurative language, author's purpose, and sequencing events. Ask your child what onomatopoeia is and give you an example and also have them tell you the author's purpose for the Celia Cruz story. If they can write BANG, CRASH, BOOM in the planner. Next week, they will be taking all they learned this week in whole group and applying it to their small group readers and lessons. How cool is that!! Math tests were great overall for chapter 1. Now we are moving into estimation, subtracting with regrouping, and algebraic expressions. You will continually see some of the concepts previously taught on their homework review pages which is good practice. We finished our Watch Out for Fallen Rock today and the kids brought their copy to share with you. Take time to read it as a family as it is an awesome book. If they can tell you before you read it, who gets to be chief of the village, write that son's name in the planner for free money. We are now ready to start our tour of the Northeast. First of all though, we have to do a couple more map skills that go with it and then we will start. We will not be doing Montana History this week. No time for all of it. YIKES. In Science, we are continuing with weather and will do a short unit on wildfires. We are hoping to get a firefighter in so if you know of one, let me know and also we are going to try and skype with one that works for the Montana Conservation Corp. Team Building today consisted of playing 6 corners. I am sure you are wondering how you have six corners. Well you can't really but we did. Have your child let you know how we played. As you can see by the pictures below we had fun. Saturday Live is tomorrow (Saturday) at Pioneer Park from 10-4 and if you go, write Saturday Live in the planner for big free money. Have a great weekend and enjoy this great fall weather.