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Trojan Times

Nodaway-Holt Elementary School

Quality Education Today for a Successful Tomorrow

Volume 17/18, Issue 2October 1, 2017

Character word for October: Self-control having control over ones actions, words and emotions.

Dismissals in October

October 19 1:00 DISMISSAL

October 20 NO SCHOOL

October 23 NO SCHOOL

Yearbook

Its not too late to purchase your 2017-18yearbook. Available online at Jostens.com. Price now is $40 and includes 4 free icons with personalization. Offer expiresDec.1and price goes to $45.

Grandparents and Special Friends

Nodaway-Holt Elementary students will be hosting a Grandparents and Special Friends Tea on Friday, October 13, at 2:00 p.m. Your child may invite grandparents, great-grandparents or a special adult friend to join them at school for this special event. Students and guests will share a special snack and then go to their classroom to see what they are learning in class. The Book Fair will also be open if they would like to take their special guest to the Book Fair.

To assist with planning and preparation of this special event, please return the letter your child received last week. We are very excited about this event and hope you are, too.

BOOK FAIR

TheBook Fairis coming soon! It will open during the Grandparents/Special Friends Tea, Friday afternoon Oct. 13th and it will remain open the following week through Parent Teacher Conferences Oct. 19th. Hours are : 7:30-8:30 Mon-Thur and 2:00-7:30 PM Thursday Oct. 19th

This year students may donate money for books for school libraries that were effected by the devastating hurricanes. We will use the money collected for our school AND Scholastic will match that amount for the hurricane destroyed schools.

Students may order the newDiary of a Wimpy Kid: The Getaway. This is a very popular series!

Everyone gets excited when the book fair arrives and I hope to see you there.

S.K.I.P.

The next SKIP meeting will be Oct. 9 at 6:00 pm in the commons area. SKIP will be helping with Trivia Night this year, come and help with the planning. Hope to see you there. For more information about S.K.I.P. please contact Kayla Moore.

Trivia Night

Trivia Night & Silent Auction

The Nodaway-Holt Elementary Faculty and Staff hope that you will save Saturday, November 11 for our annual Trivia Night. We have decided to continue this FUNdraiser because everyone has such a FUN time!

Gather your friends and enter a team for the Trivia Contest, the entry fee is $30 for a team, with a maximum of six people on a team. Teams may send their entry fee and the names of team members to the elementary school office. The trivia will be over a wide variety of topicsso just because its been awhile since youve read a textbook or are still in school, you will still have fun and probably know more than you may think! The questions will be on a wide variety of topics so anyone could have the knowledge needed to be on the winning team.

The evening of fun will be very similar to the previous years event. There will be snacks and door prizes. We will also have a Silent Auction with some amazing goodies to bid on. More details on the goodies in the next newsletter. At this time the gym is scheduled to open at 6 p.m. so that you can start bidding on items. Trivia begins at 7 p.m.

We hope you will join us for an evening of fun and help us raise money for our students. Mark your calendar for November 11.

Remind Notices

Hopefully you have signed up for your childs classroom Remind Notices. This is a fantastic way to know what is happening in the classroom. If you have questions, contact your childs teacher.

Kindergarten News

Kindergartens have really gotten into the swing of things. They are doing an amazing job following rules and knowing the routines. They have been earning marbles for good choices. So far they have already earned a pajama day and a shoes off in the classroom day! Now they are working towards a hat day. Watch for a remind message for the hat day.

Everyone is enjoying shared reading time after lunch where they listen to a chapter book. There are lots of great questions and comments being made during this time. This is a great way to work on visualization or being able to create pictures in our brains, questioning, and making predictions. We have read Mary Marony and the Snack and Horrible Harry in Room 2B. Ask your child to tell you about the main character Harry. They should tell you he likes lots of horrible things. Students have done a great job comparing the similarities and differences in these book. We are going to start reading There is an Orangutan in My Bathroom next week. I am expecting lots of laughs and connections during this book.

What we are learning in:

Reading-

Theme: Family

Letters Sounds & Identification- Aa, Mm

High Frequency Words (HFW) - I, can, we, the, am

Kindergartens continue to do a great job reading the booklets at home to practice fluency and HFW and returning them to read with friends at school. Keep up the good work students and parents!

We have been identifying patterns in stories such as the question, answer, question, answer pattern in Whose Baby Am I? We have also been discussing the characters, setting, and sequence of each story as well as identifying rhyming words.

Math-

In math, we continue to identify numbers 1-10. We are also are showing numbers using a 5 group and some more. An examples is to show the number 7, students can look at fingers or a ten frame and say 5 and 2 is 7. This is to also help student visualize numbers when we start adding and subtracting.

Science

Mrs. Carroll brought in a monarch caterpillar that students got to watch turn into a butterfly! They were excited to see it turn into a chrysalis and then a butterfly. What a great way to learn about the life cycle of a butterfly!

Reminders-

Just a reminder as the weather starts to cool down please make sure to send a jacket with your child.

---Mrs. Bohannon

First Grade News

First grade has continued to strive for personal growth as the year has progressed. We just finished up our first math unit and will continue on with counting strategies. In reading, we have begun letter blends, which will help us decode words while reading. In science, we finished up our inventions unit and will be moving into science that focuses on the fall season. We have begun our final project of our rights and responsibilities unit, which should wrap up next week with a big presentation of our learning to Mrs. Carroll.

---Ms. Falconer

Second Grade News

We have been really busy this month getting into a set classroom routine and schedule. We have been working on word problems in math! We have found out that word problems can be tricky as they sometimes leave out important information or add extra information! We have been working on main idea, summarizing a story and drawing conclusions in reading this month! We have been using graphic organizers to help keep our ideas organized and neat. In theme (science), we have been talking about plant and animal life cycles. We had a class caterpillar that we watched develop into a cocoon and then an adult Monarch butterfly! We have been really excited to watch it grow, develop in the chrysalis, and then release the adult butterfly! In writing, we have been adding interesting details to our writing! Students have been working hard to make their writing more exciting and fun to read!

---Mrs. Drewes

Third Grade News

Third graders have had a busy September learning classroom procedures and expectations. They were very excited to receive Dojo Wallets to keep their Dojo money safe. Some students love spending their money at every Friday payday while others are saving up their cash. The better they behave, the more money they will have!

The class is finishing up a unit on Antarctica in reading. They love the stories about penguins and seals. In small groups, we have begun diving into some fun literary sets and readers theater poetry. In math, we are working on multiplication and division. Well continue to build fact fluency by working on basic facts throughout the year. Students took great pride in showing off their personalized Writers Workshop notebooks that they decorated at home and then put section dividers in at school. Now we are ready to fill those notebooks with wonderful prose!

---Mrs. Emerson

Fourth Grade News

I havent failed. Ive just found 10,000 ways that wont work Thomas Edison

This quote seems to sum up everything that is going on in the 4th grade classroom. In science students are discovering the design process and becoming engineers as they work to create a safety device for an egg. Students are exploring the science behind seatbelts and asking questions to better create a safety device. In math we are in the beginning of our multiplication unit. Students are understanding the importance of place value. Please be practicing math facts daily! We will soon be starting Unit 2 in our reading series and diving more into grammar and spelling. In Social Studies we continue to learn more about early America and the 13 original colonies through a role playing activity. I have a feeling there might be a revolution soon!

I look forward to seeing you all at Parent Teacher Conferences on October 19th!

Halloween room parents are Desiree Leeper and Samantha Duckworth our Halloween party will be October 31st at 2pm.

Trivia Question (Ask your student and write the answer in your childs planner for them to get an e