Veteran's Day

     Hi everyone!  I hope you are enjoying the beautiful weather we are having today.  It's a perfect day to have the day off and play OUTSIDE.  Last Friday, the third, fourth and fifth graders put on a Veteran's Day program.  Mr.  Larry Guiseppe was our Veteran speaker.  It was a great program and everyone did a wonderful job.  Mr. Guiseppe talked a bit about Veterans being our real heroes.  We headed back to class and talked more about real heroes, people who do outstanding things to protect us, not just athletes or music stars.  The children then wrote about who they thought were heroes and why.  They have already been sent home and boy did they do a good job.

     We have been reading some Native American legends this week and will continue to do so.  Some of the legends are from the Aberjonian Tribe that lived right here in Woburn.  So far, we've read about a spider who stole the sun and a how a muskrat helped form land on Earth.

     Yesterday, we practiced a little revising.  We took a few boring sentence and "revised" them to make them better.  We did some together and revised this one on our own.  I told the students that I would post some of them for all to enjoy.

The book was good. (original sentence)

The Minecraft book was awesome, interesting and good.

The apple book was so good that I took it home to read every night.

The book about animals was very cute.

I'm reading a book about (Native Americans) and it's great!

I read a book and it was a blast.  

I read a book and it was amazing.

The book is very interesting and amazing!

The red book was wonderful to read!

I read an amazing (Native American) book.

This book was magical and creative. 

I read a book about a super-duper funny ghost!

The car book was the best book in the world!

The dinosaur book was the most interesting thing I've ever read!

     This is the last week to send in can donations for the food pantry castle being created by high school students.

     The student council has started a new "bead" initiative.  We kicked it off with an all school assembly.  Mrs. Carabello read How Full is Your Bucket? and student council members explained about the beads.  Each teacher will be given a bag of beads and if they catch a student doing something amazing, they will give one to him/her.  Once a second grader has earned 8 beads, they can turn them into a bracelet.  It works very much like the Gold Book but now we'll have beautiful bracelets to wear.  

     Every Thanksgiving, the two second grade classes come together for a feast.  We bake corn bread and have some juice and grapes.  VERY FUN.  In the past we've asked for parents to send in supplies needed for our gathering.  This year we thought it would be easier to shop ourselves and ask families to send a bit in to off set the costs.  Be watching for that note to come home.  We haven't done any calculating yet but I'm not expecting it to be much at all.  More on this will follow.