Check out the blog and see other students read to their reading buddies!

A right brain activity that we do in math! Noodlers are a difficult but fun activity that your students do during math.

These are the Dragons' Good Friend Reports. They did such a nice job on them. Ask them what characteristics a good friend has!

Happy Hanukkah! This is just one craft project we did!

Dragons and Vikings made some factor trees and they are hanging around the school! They circled the prime numbers as well. Don't they look lovely!?

The dragons and vikings wrote a Thanksgiving poem, figured out a riddle relating to Thanksgiving, came up with a list of words using the letters in Thanksgiving Day, and more. What a day!
HAVE A GREAT THANKSGIVING!

The Riddle:

Why shouldn't you tell secrets in a corn maze?

Answer: Because corn has ears!

DANCE PARTY IN THE GYM!

Some math activities that Dragons and Vikings do....SHOPPING! Toys with prices are scattered about so the students can shop with their "allowance". They then get change and check their work.

Geometry mixed with art! Ask your dragon students what quadralaterals are!

We are reviewing and practicing our measurements with Mr, Ms, or Mrs. Gallon! Ask your students about the project.

A notice about our inclement weather procedures has gone home in your students lunch boxes. Please check that out!

Check out our new pictures. On the blog there's a link to picasa and that is where our pictures are (just a reminder). :) Hope you like them.

PIONEER SCHOOL

This video is here for you to get a little feel for what kind of day we had! It was so much fun and the kids were exhausted afterwards. Enjoy!

Pumpkins

Pumpkin math and the pumpkin hunt was a great success! In pumpkin math students estimated weight, height, and circumference by comparing knowledge of other pumpkins weight. We also used pumpkins to discover descending and ascending order.
We had the pumpkin hunt yesterday and the students had a great time (we had a lot of fun hiding the pumpkins as well).
Today we will go on our field trip to Champoeg Park to learn about Pioneers. We will visit the Pioneer Mothers Cabin and the Newell House. Descriptions of both museums are below. Thanks in advance to the chaperones!

Pioneer Mothers Memorial Cabin

Experience life as it would have been for the early pioneers in a log cabin at the Pioneer Mothers Memorial Cabin. Learn about the earliest settlers, the Hudson's Bay Company, Wagons Westward and Pioneer Life. Experience life through hands on activities, kneading sour dough bread, carding wool and washing clothes as the pioneers would have done.


Newell House

Discover life as lived by one of Oregon's earliest legislators, Robert Newell. Learn about the beginnings of the Oregon Territory, Statehood and his life as a man of many firsts as told by interpreters in period dress. Learn about a catastrophic area wide flood that would change the lives of the residents of Champoeg forever. Through a scavenger hunt, learn about artifacts of the period and how they were used in every day life. Then learn about the making of a beeswax candle, make one and take it home with you as a remembrance of your experience at Newell House.

Field Trip

We wanted to remind you all that the Dragons and Vikings class will be going on a field trip this Friday the 29th to Champoeg Park for Pioneer School. Your child can dress up as a pioneer, and wear their pioneer clothes to school.

Boys can wear rolled up jeans, plaid or long sleeved button shirt, and a hat.

Girls can wear long skirts or dresses, apron, shawl, bonnet, or scarf.

Please send your child with a "pioneer" lunch; no warmups, a sandwich, drink, fresh fruit, and vegetables.

Lastly, please make sure your child is at the school by 8:00 and ready to go!

Thank you for your help!

Science "Pitch"

Science Fun



The Dragons and Vikings classes have been studying sound in science. Both classes made flutes out of straws to explore "pitch". The classes discovered that the smaller the straw the higher the pitch was, and the larger the straw, the lower the pitch was.

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October

Important upcoming events for the month of October:

Week of October 10th: Please send a pumpkin to school for fun math activities

October 11th: Columbus Day, school in session

October 13th: Back to School-lower school

October 16th: School Carnival 2-5

October 17th: Aaron Ha’s birthday

October 20th: Back to School, 6:30-upper school

October 23rd: Maintenance Day 9-1

October 28th: Pumpkin hunt

October 29th: Field trip to Champoeg State Park for pioneer school!