Our Week In Review

What a busy week!  The children are working hard and getting a lot finished in order to wrap up 2012!  We have almost finished reading our Interactive Read Aloud, The Family Under the Bridge.  This story has really opened up many discussions in the classroom. I'm very proud of how the children have learned to talk about books and the characters that interest them.

In math we have begun to work on division.  This is a new and challenging concept for many of the children. Though we will be continuing to learn about division, I thought it may be helpful for parents to have a resource. Below is a video of someone doing the partial quotients ("low stress division") method of dividing.




Our Mexico test was Wednesday this week.  The tests were sent  home today.  Mrs. Merten was very proud of the effort on this test!

Our food drive was a great success!  The food pantry volunteers arrived this morning and we filled the van with our donations.  I will post the food total as soon as I hear from them.  Below are some photos and a video of us loading the food.

I also received a note from the Franklin Food Pantry.  I have included it below (321 pounds of food!)

From all of us here at the Franklin Food Pantry, THANK YOU!!  It was a great pleasure for me to be able to speak to your students and hear all their fantastic questions!

Congratulations to you all on a job well done - you collected 321.4 pounds of food!  This will go a long way towards helping our neighbors in need during these hard winter months.



 Here are Bleddyn and Declan.  This week they came to school dressed alike ~ and it wasn't even twin day!

SPOTLIGHT ON:

EMMA:  Last weekend, Emma participated in a gymnastics meet.  She won a first place medal for her vault and second place all around.  Way to go! 

Our Food Drive was a SUCCESS!!!!!!

Wow! The fourth graders and their generous families collected a whopping 480 pounds of food plus $20, which equals 100 extra meals. Mrs. B. from the Franklin Food Pantry wanted me to pass along this message to all of our families, "Please send our hugs and warmest holiday wishes to all staff, students and their families. Thank you for making a difference! In gratitude."

Some students were able to help us to load the Food Pantry van, which was FULL (see the picture below). We really did make a difference for people in our community. Thank you.