1. Happy Halloween.
2. Please label all jackets, coats, and even hats and gloves. We're getting into that season and unfortunately, our boys don't seem to be able to tell us which one of the jackets are theirs since we've been sending kids home with the wrong ones. If you don't label them, please don't be upset if we do. (i promise, i won't stitch on print orange or anything!)
3. Schedule for the next two weeks. Probably not what you want to hear (read) but unfortunately, this is how it is.
Starting November 5th:
Monday-Ms. Stern is out
Tuesday-no students
Wednesday-all here
Thursday-Mrs. Robertson out
Friday-Ms. Stern out
Monday-no students
Tuesday-Ms. Stern out
Wednesday-all here
Thursday-Mrs. Robertson out; field trip
Friday-all here
Monday, Tuesday, Early Dismissal Wednesday, THANKSGIVING BREAK!

All except the friday before Veteran's Day are due to trainings that we have no choice about given our positions in the building.

Report cards are coming home soon.

Thanks to everyone for everything you did for the Halloween festivities today. Pumpkins will go home tomorrow. We just plum ran out of time today to get it all done. But our scarecrow sure looks great!

We did it! Field trip #1 is COMPLETE and well, long but great. Everyone laughed (some cried) and we all have pumpkins!

A HUGE THANK YOU to:

Mr. Oshiki and his company for funding this trip. We truly appreciate it.
Mr. Oshiki, Mrs. Hobbs, and Mr. and Mrs. Welsh for spending the day with us and helping us have fun!
Cox Farms for granting us reduced rates for our adults and being generally awesome.
Blake for sharing his flashlight with friends in the morning.
Hayden for enjoying the hay as much as everyone else!


Everyone loved the trip. They were all pumped up for the "farm" this morning and couldn't wait to get there. Hendrick kept saying on the way out "bye farm. bye bye. bye farm. bye bye farm." Adorable.

We only lost one student for about a minute which I hear is considerably less than anyone else. Go team!

While I'm exhausted, I feel like I learned about more about the kids today and some of them, learned about themselves (especially when it comes to goats!)

Thanks again to everyone for making it possible. Our kids (and us) are so lucky to have families like all of you!

OKay, OKay!

A great day. We laughed, giggled and we actually learned!

There was inclusion (patrick and luis went to computer lab) and (grant, hendrick, and darius went to music).

We are almost finished with our halloween surprise. We counted, we built, we had a great day.

So, tomorrow. Be at school. 9am. Bring lunch.

Be ready for anything!

We're baaaaccccckkkk

Well, Mrs. Robertson and I should be back tomorrow. I'm still sniffly and she's completely mended according to her email but I'm coming back because I don't want the school calling me again.

Tomorrow we'll be finishing up our super secret halloween surprise. I can't tell you now but can inform you to check out everyone's bookbags on Wednesday night. Will it be a trick or treat....you'll never know until then!

Tuesday we'll spend the day at Cox Farms. Remember, bag lunches. Everything (including the bag) has to be able to be thrown out. No lunch boxes, glass bottles, or silverware that needs to be returned.

Wednesday, fun day of inclusion, speech, and then, halloween festivities! how fun!

We're also going to squeeze in time to make sure that everyone finishes their math tests and start on our next adventures!

Hope everyone comes back tomorrow!

Notes:

There will be no real update today because both Mrs. Robertson and myself are home. Needless to say, it should be an interesting day in that room. Oh, to be a fly.

There is a Halloween party tonight at the school from 6:30 to 8pm.

Don't forget, bag lunches are needed on Tuesday for our field trip. Chaperones need to be at the school by 9am.

Wednesday, Halloween Party, but NO COSTUMES (per administration).

Alright, I'm going back to bed. Have a good weekend.

MayDay!!!

Virusspread 2007 has now gotten all but one of us. Mrs. Robertson is sick as am I. There is a good chance that we'll both be out tomorrow.

A good day. Now, sleep.

Still spreading germs....

Today, only three friends came to school. We sure hope everyone is feeling better quickly because you're missing out on the fun!

Luis and Grant both finished their chapter in math and earned 100% on their test. Lefts, rights, insides, outsides, unders, overs, there sure was a lot!

Darius did great work with Mrs. Robertson for math today. Mrs. Cassarino came in and not only chatted with Darius for a while, but played with playdough and hung out with him. He sure was happy about that. Everyone chose a different activity for recess since it was raining. From the sound of it right now, we might have to do the same thing tomorrow!

And now, since I was a sub for bunco tonight (third time playing and second time winning!) I've got to get to bed.

Don't forget (for those healthy ones out there) that there is a Great Halloween Party at Weems on Friday night. Flyers went home today (or will go home when you come back!)