Week of October 8

Social Studies: Olivia and Zoe are our class's nominees for the election for the Head of School and Secretary.  We made 60+ posters and we got our political party jobs.  We have a team in charge of voter registration, publicity people working on flyers and commercials, campaign managers, and speech writers.  Our party name is the Endeavor (means to work hard) Party and our slogan is "Building a Better School."  We are hoping to win the election on November 6th.

Math: We are still working on stocks.  We have learned that the stock market is crazy.  Our teams are now ranked 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 out of 11 teams.  "It is becoming the Great Depression." 

Everyone took tests this week.  The purple group was working on decimals and the green group worked on addition and subtraction.  

Writing: A lot of people are publishing their story.  Some are still editing and some are already free writing.

Language Arts: We continued reading our books this week.  Everyone is on at least chapter 4.  

Science: We are making a Periodic Table of Elements.  We are looking for the elements on the website chemicool.com, where we can find the number of neutrons, protons, and electrons, who found the element, and the uses for it.

Recess: New 4-Square rules are posted on the windows.  We hope this will reduce the arguments over it.  Now other games are being played too.  

Spelling: We have been having tests over the spelling of the words and the meaning of them.  We have read some really cool stories in our Wordly Wise packets.

French: We are doing Halloween activities.  We are learning more French every day.

Library: We got some new books.  Some people got their adventure books, but not many.  

Performing Arts: We are doing a bunch of games and vocal warm ups.  We have a song of the month.  We are composing our own theme songs using the instruments there and she is going to record them.

PE: We  have been doing a lot of stations and working with other people.  We have played a lot of fun games and last PE, everyone made a goal and almost everyone accomplished their goal. 

Weekly Wisdom: This week's WW is "Always do your best, certainly not less."
  
Stop signs: We started using stop signs this week for when people are doing something wrong.  They say, "Please stop what you are doing and make a better choice."  If we get 3 stop signs, we owe million dollars or recess.