Red Ribbon Week Puppet Show

We celebrated being Drug Free this past week at school.  We decorated our classroom door by making it look like a haunted house with a sign that said "Don't Let Drugs Haunt You."  We dressed up each day.  Tuesday we wore our crazy socks-see picture below.  On Wednesday, we wore our black and gold to show our E-Hawk Spirit and cheer on the E-Hawks!  Then on Thursday we wore our boots to "Give Drugs the Boot."  Mrs. Schiek handed out red ribbons, stickers, and coloring books.  On Wednesday, Allison Gould, Joe Schmidt and Caroline Fantz put on a special puppet show for us and Mrs. Schiek shared a short video about staying drug free and being healthy!

Reading with the 4th graders

We spent some time reading with Mr. Swanson's 4th grade class this past Tuesday morning.  We read our Pumpkins by the ______ book to our 4th grade buddy and then they read to us!  It was a great opportunity to share some reading time.  Thank you 4th graders for being great reading buddies!

E-Hawk Buddy

We have welcomed Will Schany, a 10th grader from Emmetsburg High School, to our classroom on Thursday afternoons as one of our Ehawk Buddies!  We enjoy having Will come to read, play games, and sing songs with us!

Fun making our scarecrow

We read the story The Little Old Lady Who Wasn't Afraid of Anything this past week.  We learned some new vocabulary words:  afraid and cottage.  We also had to remember the order of the story.  We helped read the repetitive phrases and can retell the story when we visit the library center.

 We then made a class scarecrow to help decorate our room for fall.

Thank you Mrs. Larson for being our Guest Reader!

Thursday, October 23, 2014

We were a great audience at Shrek this morning!  We sat for almost 2 1/2 hours to watch the show in the high school auditorium.  It was funny and we were excited to give the characters a big "high-five" on our way out-they did such a great job!

We also want to say thank you to Mrs. Larson for coming this afternoon to be our guest reader for DEAR day!  She got us in the Halloween spirit by reading We're Going on a Ghost Hunt.  We were able to read along with her during the repetitive portions.  We look forward to having her come read to us again next month.

Hunter Star of the Week

This past week, we celebrated Hunter as our star of the week.  Thanks for sharing with us Hunter!

Site visit to the Pumpkin Patch

We visited the pumpkin patch at Scuffham's Garden on Thursday, October 16th.  It was a great day for learning about pumpkins, gourds and squash!  We met Helen in her yard and she showed us the big pumpkins!  We enjoyed climbing up on the hayrack for a class picture with them.  She showed us her farm store and many different kinds of pumpkins.  We learned that the secret is in the seed!  We were able to explore the pumpkin patch and complete observational drawings of the growing pumpkins.