Red Team Weekly Update

Week of 10/28-10/31

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.

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.
We are excited to be able to offer the opportunity for all of our students to attend a showing of Harriet on November 26th at Ronnie’s Cinema. Harriet is a biopic about Harriet Tubman, the abolitionist who, after escaping enslavement, led 70 other slaves to freedom. Please click here to complete the permission slip and turn it into the office no later than November 11th. You can either send in the $10 payment with your form or complete your payment online here.

Upcoming Due Dates

Our annual SLU Pig Heart dissection permission forms and money are due by Oct. 31st. The trip is $15 and there are two forms the students need to bring back.

Classroom Happenings

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ELA- Mr. Jones

Today officially ended our Realistic Fiction Unit with our Publishing Party. It seems kids had fun. It’s good to have that every once in awhile, especially when they work hard throughout the unit. Feel free to ask your student to see their finished story if you haven’t seen it. Our next unit will be Non-Fiction and students will be in book clubs as we explore a number of topics that affect our everyday lives in some way. Hopefully, students accomplished the goal of three books in October. If not, just give it another shot in November.

My October Blog “Me, the Introvert?” is available here.

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Science- Mrs. Creath

This past week students took a summative test over eclipses and seasons.

Our pumpkin drop has been moved to Monday, November 4th. Later next week we will begin a project about the challenges of getting people to Mars. Students will be choosing a challenge to research and will build a prototype of something that could help solve this problem!