End-of-Week Update, 11/8

Student council elections were this week!  Check out the candidates below!

Andrew promised to work hard to make Kennedy School a better place!

Alexis promised to be a good listener for all of our ideas!

Jack promised to listen to everybody's ideas and share them with student council.

Caroline suggested an idea box for our classroom so kids could submit their ideas to the representative!

Cormac promised to organize more school spirit days.  He said not to vote wrong, Vote Wright!

Stephen promised to organize fun events, like spelling bees!  He said, "Don't be a bully, be a friend!"

Josh promised to organize more fundraisers for people who need help!

Kileigh promised to be determined, courageous, colorful, talented, and hard-working!

Cullen promised to organize fun activities, like trivia games, spelling bees, and sports challenges!

Gretchen promised to be on-time, organized, dependable, and hard-working!

What we've been up to:

This week we devoted our time to division, student council elections, writing our fiction stories, completing our remarkable 4-door projects on Washington, D.C., and doing our best!

We are working on “spa” division (low-stress division).  On Friday, we got a sheet called “How to Deal with My Remainders.”  We also called it the Kitten Paper.  Ask a Room 20 student why…  Click on the right to see the kitten remainder sheet.  We had a lot of fun talking about the kitten sheet and the different ways you can deal with your remainder in a division number story.  If you think that’s a lot, that was only what we did in math this week!

In writing, we’re working on our new realistic fiction stories.  We’re starting to develop our main characters.  We started with a theme – honesty, kindness, perseverance, courage, friendship, determination, acceptance, or compassion.  We’re building our stories off of that.  We can’t wait for writing on Tuesday.

For social studies, we finished our in-school 4-door projects.  They look great!  We also did an acrostic poem for Washington, D.C.

The people who ran for student council were Andrew, Alexis, Jack, Caroline, Cormac, Stephen, Kileigh, Cullen, Josh, and Gretchen.  Mrs. Adams is proud of how the students ran their campaigns, how they gave their speeches, how they won, and how they lost.  They all deserve a BIG congratulations!  Jack was the winner!  We have ideas to give him and can’t wait for him to represent our ideas at student council meetings.  We had no school on Tuesday because of Election Day.  On Friday, Room 20 got the Golden Broom for the cleanest floor in the whole school.  We can keep it until next Friday.

Dory and Andrew are celebrating the Golden Broom Award!

Go, Justin!  We're so proud of your celebrity singer status!

In music, we recorded part of our recorder song, “Starburst.”  In chorus, Justin became celebrity singer!  In art, we shaded precious pumpkins using gray scale and oil pastels.  In health, we played Exercise Bingo.  In library, we learned many important facts about Susan B. Anthony - just in time for elections!  One of them was 100 years ago, women were not allowed to vote.  We’re really glad that this isn't the way things are anymore!

This was one of our busiest weeks yet!  This week we had so much fun and so much learning, it felt more like five days instead of four!

What's coming up / Notes from Mrs. Adams:

• There is no school on Monday in honor of Veterans' Day.
• Next Friday (11/15), there will be a division test.  The best ways to prepare are to (1) practice the low-stress (partial quotients) division lots and lots, (2) practice basic multiplication and division facts, and (3) use the study guide and at-home study packet for studying!  Any questions, don't hesitate to ask!
• If you have not signed up for a December conference, please do so!  Email me for the link to the Sign-Up Genius website.  There are many open times and I can arrange a time that works with your schedule is nothing works for you!