Blue Team Weekly Update

Week of 10/21-10/25

Breaking News

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Parents-Just a reminder to check your email/spam folder for an email from Panorama Education . This is a family school relationship survey we are asking our families to complete. The data we receive will help guide our work around character education. Thank you for your participation.
You can find the link for Remind messages here or text @hxblue to 81010

Red Ribbon Week:

Monday 10/28– Ink out drugs Day! – wear a tattoo! Step Team will be selling tattoos at lunch for 50 cents each.

Tuesday 10/29 – Blow Out Drugs Day! – Purchase a blow pop for 25 cents from a Step Team Member.

Wednesday 10/30 – Don’t sleep on drugs, be aware! - Wear your favorite PJ bottoms to school for 50 cents!

Thursday 10/31 Keep drugs out of your face! -Two student’s per lunch shift will be drawn to throw a pie in a staff member’s face!

We will also have a Halloween Contest with gift cards for the winners!

All proceeds from the sale of tattoos, blow pops, etc will be used to fund performance uniforms for the step team. Thanks for your support!

WGSD Parent Safety Information Night

What: The Webster Groves School District will provide families with information about district safety initiatives, including:

· WGSD School Resource Officers will present an overview of 4E (intruder) training that we conduct with district staff and preview an elementary student presentation

· WGSD Superintendent Dr. John Simpson will provide updates on Prop E safety, accessibility, and space measures

When: Wednesday, October 30th at 7:00

Where: Steger Auditorium

701 N. Rock Hill Road

Families, please join us at Hixson on November 6 at 6pm for an event kicking off a community effort to crowd-source a children’s book about the incredible Black history of Webster Groves. This event features a children's author help us learn how to be story sleuths in uncovering local history, community historians and experts, packets with everything you need to get you going, and a play area for our youngest attendees. Then, you are invited to stay for a play written for young audiences based on Studs Terkel's bestseller, "Race." The 30 minute play will be most engaging for upper elementary age and older. We will provide snacks to help with dinner hour.

Upcoming Due Dates

Two books personal reading books for October are due by 10/31. Fill out completed book forms as you finish your books.

Scholastic Book Orders due by 10/31

Classroom Happenings

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ELA: Mrs. Camden

In ELA this week we continued our work with Memoirs. We read three mentor texts, learned the characteristics of a memoir, worked on annotating memoirs to capture our thinking, and began using a strategy called Memoir Foursquare to make our thinking visible. Students will begin writing memoirs next week.

Look for an email sent Thursday explaining some of the grading for the first quarter.

Just a reminder, students are required to read two books each month for the rest of the school year. These books count as summative grades. Remind you child that they must fill out a completed book form for their reading to count. Completed book forms are in the classroom next to the pencil sharpener.

I will be placing a Scholastic book order on October 31st for anyone who submits an order online.

If you’d like to donate books to our classroom library, we have wish-lists on Scholastic and Amazon. Thanks!

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Science: Mr. Vorel

This week in Science we have moved on to an exploration of Newton's three laws. We have started with Newton's first law and have used pendulums to study this concept. We have discussed the balanced and unbalanced forces that act upon the pendulum and affect its motion. Students have also completed three separate labs to identify what affects the period of a pendulum - angle of release, weight of the pendulum, or the length of the pendulum.

Next week we will move on to Newton’s second and third laws. We will study these concepts with a Newton car lab.

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Social Studies: Mr. McGinnis

This week in Social Studies We began our study of the Constitution.

SPRINGFIELD FIELD TRIP:

We have 40 confirmed students.

If you have not yet, please click on this link to get information on our Springfield Trip.

In addition, please fill out the Google form - https://forms.gle/6ZtPTdtqVMzHNk1c7

- so that we can estimate how many students plan on going with us. This will allow us to set the price for the trip. We will be going to Springfield IL 5/13/2020.