You know it has been a BUSY week when Wednesday felt like Friday! This week we had COSI, visited the Scholastic Book Fair, had our final W.O.W.. During COSI, we learned about all of our body systems and had hands-on opportunities to learn. We are thankful that the PTA allowed us the opportunity. Thanks to Mrs. Johnson for helping out and all the friends/family members who made it to the walk. The walk was chaotic fun for ALL!
***** Important Note*****
Next Tuesday, October 24th is Marco Pizza Night. Each child has personally decorated their own pizza box and they turned out amazing! If you order pizza on the 24th, it will be delivered in your child's box! You will be busy preparing for Thanksgiving so pizza is the perfect, quick dinner. The class with the most participants can earn a class party. Also, this fundraiser could earn Redwood up to $10,000 to use to better our school so please participate. You can also earn more points for the school by ordering online. Place your online order and then click "School Night" under the menu. Click on Redwood and then click Add. The next step is to check the box with Wilhelm and then done.
In math this week, we are continuing to learn strategies to subtract within 100. The strategies we have learned so far are the hundred chart, breaking apart numbers and using a open number line. The open number line strategy would look like this for 74-32:
32 is 3 tens and 2 ones. So, count back 3 tens from 74. Then count back 2 ones. You land on 42. So, 74-32=42.
We continued our biography unit with Henry Ford and the Model T by Michael O'Hearn. The book was a nonfiction story but it was presented in a Graphic novel format. Oh, how cars have changed overtime! The assembly line allowed Ford to go from making 18,000 cars a year to 183,000 cars! The time it took to make a Model T went from 13 hours and 38 minutes to 1 hour and 33 minutes. Pretty impressive! We answered some 'wh' questions about Ford and compared cars today and cars long ago.
With Thanksgiving next week, we took time to thanks those here at Redwood who help us every week. Each student wrote a special note of thanks. We also wrote a wishbone wish! We read Cranberry Thanksgiving by Harry Devlin and had some cranberry fun including a science experiment and some cranberry treats!
Don't forget... only 2 days next week. No spelling. No homework except for nightly reading.
Thanks!
Miss Wilhelm
