Items for Nursing Home Buddy

Our nursing home buddy is Jim. He loves the Indianapolis Colts and action movies. He appreciates personal items such as sugar free candy and Diet Pepsi. I will also be collecting money if you would rather contribute that way. In the past, I have collected money and then gone shopping and have been able to get him Colts tshirt or something fun. Thank you for all your help!!

December

December is almost here and it always flies by! I wanted to give you a little heads up and info about what is going on next month:

1. Research. During our reading workshop we are doing animal research. We are note taking and reading a variety of sources. Your child may be reading these books at home and may do Internet research as well. We will be using this research to write research reports in January.
2. Christmas Party. The date for this party is December 18th and will start at 2:15 (I believe). PTO sent papers home if you are able to help at the party or would be willing to donate items for the party. Please let me know if you did not get a paper and are willing to do one of the above.
3. Christmas. In the past we have not done a Christmas exchange. I like to focus on the giving and not the getting. This year will be the same. We will be doing some sort of service project. Currently we are looking into collecting items, making cards, poems, etc. for our troops in the military (we have a few teachers who have sons in the military and could make this happen). They are compiling a list of needed items. I will get this list to you as soon as possible!
4. Nursing Home Buddy. We will be sending a gift basket to our buddy. He loves the Colts. I will also collect money to do the shopping....so if you are willing to donate a few dollars to help out, that would be great as well.
5. Open House. Third grade open house will be Friday, December 14th from 2:30-3:15 pm. It will be very similar to the student led conferences you participated in first quarter....except a lot less formal as there will be several people in the classroom. You may take your child home after the open house, but you are unable to pull siblings from their classrooms early. You may wait at the car rider location for siblings.

Happy Thanksgiving!

I hope everything had a wonderful Thanksgiving break!! Here are some pictures of our turkey activity the day before Thanksgiving!

Update!

Wow, this month is flying! I cannot believe that next week is Thanksgiving! I will soon have to change the background, as we had our first snow yesterday!! Just a few notes:

• Book orders went home and are due this Friday. If you want them to be Christmas gifts, please let me know. I will contact you when the orders are in and you can pick them up in the office.
• I have updated Acuity with new practice tutorials based on what they missed in Quarter 1 and Quarter 2 pretest. You and your child can access these online at www.acuityathome.com
• Only three days of school next week!

Election Day 2012

Today in school we had the chance to vote. Third grade will be raising money for Young Author's Day. We will either be selling cookies, bracelets, or popcorn. We had to make posters and write campaign speeches persuading others to vote. We also had to register to vote: we needed to know our birthday and address in order to vote. We then gave our speeches and casted our vote when we visited the voting booth. We placed our ballots in the box and will find out the results tomorrow.

We also learned a lot about past Presidents and elections. We learned where they came from, how old they were, how tall they were, favorite foods, sports, things, and much more.

We got to watch two short election videos. One was "So You Want to be President?" and the other was a music video created by students at the Ron Clark Academy. They encouraged people to vote "Any Way They Want" and presented facts for both Obama and Romney. They wrote their own lyrics and sang and danced on the video. It was fun to watch.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hqme4X1b7E&safe=active