Thursday

We are gearing up for lots of BOOK FAIR FUN here at Spears.  Next week the library will be closed.
We will go on Tuesday for our preview!!! And our buying day (as a class) will be Thursday.  The book fair will be open:

Monday – Thursday, 7:15AM – 2:45PM

Thursday: 5:00PM – 7:30PM, Friday: 7:15AM – 1:30PM

Lunch with Loved Ones Events:

Tuesday – Friday for any/all grade levels.  Shop during student’s recess and enjoy lunch together.

                   Recess         Lunch

Kinder         10:00          10:30-11:00

1^st grade      10:30          11:00-11:30

2^nd grade     11:00          11:30-12:00

3^rd grade      11:30          12:00-12:30

4^th grade     12:00          12:30-1:00

5^th grade     12:30          1:00-1:30

Spears Online Book Fair is available 24/7 from November 2 – November 22.  Shop online for an expanded selection of books and all orders ship FREE to school.  For more information and to shop online, please visit:

http://bookfairs.scholastic.com/homepage/spearselem

Thanks to everyone who sent in money for the ALL FOR BOOKS campaign.  Our box sure was HEAVY!!!

Tomorrow is HUDDLE...I think online registration has already closed. So if you come you will need to sign in when you get here! 

MATH

This week in math we have talked A LOT about making friendly numbers... We found it was MUCH easier to add 10 to numbers than it was to add a string of smaller numbers...

EXAMPLE:

6+4+7=  We changed that to 10+7 =17.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   

Look at this little!WAY TO THINK!!! 

LANGUAGE

We have done some pair share (Kagan Strategy). I love to listen in to the conversations/explanations! They seem to be so free with one another...then I ask them to explain their thinking and "I forgot!"

Super Special Student:

Milana wrote and sang a song for us today! 

And her mom came and ate with some special littles!

Lightning Bolt spent Halloween weekend at the Flumerfelts!  

He even dressed up as an A&M Football player!  He is having the TIME OF HIS LIFE!!!

Well...

TWO more week can you believe it?...until Thanksgiving Break and then 3 weeks and we will be out for the Winter Holiday Break! Where is this year going! SLOOOOOWWWW Down please!