Yellow Team Weekly Update

Week of 10/28-10/31

Breaking News

We have Published Authors!
Check out the amazing Realistic Fiction Narratives that were published this week:
Goosen’s Authors
Day’s Authors
Please click here to learn more about the PTO’s new online directory!
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

- Check out the team website for homework

ELA:

-October 31: three novels finished

Science:

-Permission slips for the Pig Heart Dissection at SLU Practical Anatomy Lab went home with students last week. The field trip does not take place until Feb. 28th, but SLU requires payment in advance. Please turn these in ASAP.

Classroom Happenings

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ELA: Mrs. Day & Mrs.Goosen

We finished our Realistic Fiction narratives. Be sure to check out our published sites! We’ve focused on the following:

Creating a book cover
Listening to our story for convention errors and rhythm of language
Final revisions and editing

We turned in our RFN on Wednesday, October 30.

Publishing party is Thursday, October 31.

If you would like to support our classroom library, please visit our class Amazon Wish List (Day) or Amazon Wish List (Goosen). Thank you for your support!

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Science: Mr. Geringer & Mrs. Oliver

Thank you for sending in so many pumpkins for our annual Pumpkin Drop! Students start by collecting data on the mass and diameter of the pumpkins, then use data collected during the drop to look for relationships between mass and drop time, pumpkin diameter and crater diameter, and mass and crater depth. Students in Oliver’s class dropped pumpkins on Tuesday and students in Geringer’s class will drop them on Monday of next week.

Next week students will begin to focus on identifying a problem related to traveling to or living on Mars, then will design and build a solution to their identified problem.

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Social Studies: Mrs. Goosen & Mr. Landolt

We are continuing our work with world religions by looking at their major tenants and where they are practiced today. We will also be spending some time in the coming weeks looking at some of the ancient religions and how they shaped the religions of today.