Mrs. Williams's Class

Thursday, November 10, 2011, is early release!  Students need to be picked up at 1:00.

There will be a Veteran’s Day Assembly on Thursday at 8:15.  The Marine Corp League will be here to present the colors.  We will also have a guest speaker along with 2 groups of students who will be singing and playing instruments.  Wear red, white, and blue on Thursday to show your patriotic spirit!

There will be NO SCHOOL on Friday, November 11, 2011, in observance of Veteran’s Day.

Congratulations class!  We were the intermediate winner for the canned food drive.  We collected a total of 143 canned items.  Awesome job!  I am so proud of you all for helping out the needed families in our community with your donations to the canned food drive.

We were also the Nautilus Spirit Day winners on Friday!!!  74% of our class was wearing blue on Friday!  Keep up the good work!

The students have been working all week on creating a scary story.  I face them a story starter and then they planned out the rest of the story.

     The hunchbacked figure beckoned to us to follow him, and we entered the castle, our teeth chattering.  The hunchback turned and looked at us.  he laughed softly and said, “Don’t fall behind.  People have gotten lost in these hallways and starved to death before they were found..hee-hee-hee!”  He led us into a huge room where a whole tree was blazing in the fireplace.  I noticed some golden eyes glowing in the far-off corner.  “Don’t be worried, my dears,” our host assured me, “that is just Fiona and she’s not one bit hungry.  She ate an entire piglet just this morning.  At the sound of the hunchback’s voice, Fiona growled sweetly.  “I will be back shortly with some hot chocolate.  You warm yourself by the fire until I return.”  He turned sharply, and with narrowed eyes, warned us: “but do not attempt to leave this room, my dears…”

Tomorrow is an Early Release.  Please be ready to pick up your child at 1:00.

Report cards and conferences will be next week.  Reminders for your scheduled conference will be coming home on Friday.  Please be sure to call and reschedule your conference if you are unable to attend. 

Next Wednesday, Ocotber 5th there will be an assembly to honor  Nautilus for becoming a Blue Ribbon School.  The assembly will be in the gym at 1:30.  We would love for all of our parents to attend the assembly.

Nautilus was selected as a national Blue Ribbon School!  This is an outstanding honor for all of our students, parents, and staff.  Check out the attached link for more information about the Blue Ribbon honor.

http://www2.ed.gov/programs/nclbbrs/2011/index.html

Just  a reminder tomorrow (Thursday, September 8th) is Early Release.  Please be here at 1:00 to pick up your child from school.

Tomorrow is also the first Yogurt Paradise fundraiser for PTSO.  Bring your flyer into Yogurt Paradise and 20% of the proceeds will be donated back to our school.  A great simple fundraiser to support all of the wonderful things PTSO does for our school, students, and teachers.

Progress reports went home on Friday.  The cover letter needs to be returned to me no later than Wednesday.  Along with the progress report was information about our classroom blog.  On the back of the newsletter was a blog contract.  This needs to be returned to me by Wednesday as well.  Students who do not bring back the signed contract will not be able to use the blog.

Thursday, September 8th is early release.  Students will need to be picked up by 1:00.

Last week we read a storm about Warren Faidley a storm chaser and photographer.  Today on MSN.com there was an article about why Warren Faidley did not chase Hurricane Irene.  There is also a link to a photo slide show of pictures Warren Faidley has taken over the years.  Check it out!

http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2011/08/30/storm_chasers_warren_faidley_and_roger_coulam_take_amazing_photo.html?GT1=38001

Boy did we learn a lot in math today!  Your child should be able to explain the 4 different multiplication properties: Commutative Property, Associative Property, Distributive Property, and Identity Property.  Ask your child your child to explain the property (with excitement and gestures)!

Commutative Property:  The order of the addends or factors does not change the sum or product

Associative Property:  Changing the grouping of the addends or products does not change the sum or product.

Distributive Property:  A number can be “spread out” over addition.

Identity Property: 

     * 0 is the additive identity (7+ 0 =7) adding 0 to any number does not change the number

     * 1 is the multiplicative identity (8 x 1 = multiplying a number by 1 does not change the number

Study Study Study…there will be a quiz tomorrow!

Student Council elections took place last Friday and I had 4 students who gave speeches.  I was so proud of ALL of the students who stood before 200 people and gave speeches.  It was amazing to see the leadership ability in these students.

Congratulations to…

Molly  who was elected as Treasurer

Roger who was elected as a 5th grade representative

Juliane who was elected as a 5th grade representative

and Daniel who was elected as a 5th grade representative.