Happy Thanksgiving & Parent/Teacher Conferences

Don't forget, Thanksgiving break is this week Wednesday the 21st through Friday the 23rd! I hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving and enjoys their break! Also, there will be no school for students on Monday the 26th due to Parent Teacher conferences!

Everyone should have received a letter yesterday regarding parent/teacher conferences. If you did not get yours or you are not able to attend your scheduled conference time please contact me at the school (870) 898-3711 or by email at kpoole@ashdownschools.org to make other conference arrangements!

We spent yesterday and today doing lots of fun and educational Thanksgiving activities in class. Be sure and ask your child about the pumpkin pie that we WON in a contest today in the first grade hallway!

Allen Booth brought a special leaf this morning to show us that he found at his home! What was unique about this leaf was that it was HUGE! It was literally as big as his head!

A SoApY Friday!

I am sure by today your children have probably told you about the science experiment we did this past Friday, but in case they haven't please ask them about it! First, we predicted and wrote about what we thought would happen if we put a bar of soap in the microwave. Next, we put our bar of Ivory soap on a piece of wax paper in the microwave for 2 minutes! The soap expands, and the longer we left it in there the bigger it got! Next, we crumbled the big pile of soap up into a bowl and added a little bit of warm water! This created kind of a doughy texture, then the kids used cookie cutters to make their own personal bars of soap that they will be bringing home today! We had a great time and here are some pictures to prove it!

Week of Nov. 12-16

This week we are working on spelling words that have three letter blends spl-, squ-, & scr- at the beginning of the word. For example: scram, splint, and squid.

Last Thursday we took a walk around our campus to collect 15 leaves for our leaf color bar graph we were making! Here are some pictures from that afternoon!

Don't forget, Thanksgiving Break next Tuesday Nov. 21-Friday Nov. 23! Hope everyone has a wonderful week!

-Miss Poole