PAW PRIDE

It was so much fun seeing so many familiar faces at the homecoming parade last night.
Tonight's the football game...Go Bulldogs!
Many of us sported our NEW school spirit jerseys today at school:

Let's stay healthy!

Today many of us got vaccinated for the upcoming flu season.
The health department came to school and gave students (and teachers) the flu mist (or flu shot).

Remember to also stay healthy this year by washing your hands, using Germ-X, getting a good night's sleep, and eating a healthy diet.

Here are some BrainPop video links about the flu and flu vaccines...
http://www.brainpop.com/health/diseasesinjuriesandconditions/fluandfluvaccine/preview.weml

http://www.brainpop.com/health/diseasesinjuriesandconditions/vaccines/preview.weml

BOX TOPS!

Thank you to everyone who is saving Box Tops for Education!
It is an EASY way to raise $ for our school.

To make this collection more exciting, we have competitions among the classes to see who can raise the most and we can earn rewards when we collect certain amounts of Box Tops!
So far we collected...
500 Box Tops (and earned Popsicles!)
Here are some Popsicle pictures...

AND then we collected a total of 1,000 Box Tops (and earned ice cream!)
Here are some ice cream pictures....

The next level is 1,500...we'll earn popcorn!  Keep collecting those Box Tops!
(And remind your grandmas, neighbors, and everybody you know to save them for you too!)

Bowling!

Gardner Elementary is having a CRAZY BOWL!
Check out the paper sent home today!  Be sure to reserve your spot!

Magazine Sales!

Don't forget about our magazine sales fundraiser!
Oct. 2 is the last turn-in day.

If you want to order online, the site is 

www.GAschoolstore.com
our school code is:  2014249

Please support us!

It's always a Great day to be at Gardner!

Subjects and Predicates

Reminders...

Another week finished!  The days seemed to fly by!

A few quick reminders...

NEWSLETTER

My classroom newsletter was sent home again today paper copy in the take-home folder.

I'm hoping next week I can send them via email again.

Remember it is always available online.  Click on the tab at the top of the blog labeled "newsbulletin"

BOOKORDERS

If you want to order books from Scholastic, there is a quick link to the book order website on the right side of the blog.

FUNDRAISER

Today the students received the packet for magazine sales.

Hopefully we can raise a lot of $$$ and get playground equipment for our school!

Tuesdays are the turn-in days.  Oct. 2 is the last turn-in day.

If you want to order online, the site is 

www.GAschoolstore.com
our school code is:  2014249

Please support us!

It's always a Great day to be at Gardner!

Edmodo

Today in the take-home folder is a note from the office explaining about Edmodo.
You may have heard your child talking about this new online learning space we began using this week in small group reading.
We use this tool strictly for educational purposes and expect students to adhere to the guidelines we have discussed.
 The link to the site is on the right side of the blog.

Social Studies

Geography, Prairie, Continents, Prime Meridian, renewable resources, latitude....
these are just some of the words you may have heard this week as we were busy reviewing for the chapter 2 social studies test.

Don't forget that the "social studies" tab at the top of the blog has a LOT of websites you can visit to help you with Daily Geography as well as practice other social studies topics.

Compasses

Starting tomorrow we will be using compasses in math class.

I have a class set for the students to use in the classroom; however, some of them are getting old and don't work as well as they used to work.

If you have a compass at home and would be willing to send it in to school, your child may use their own personal one.  (I'll teach them how to properly handle them tomorrow during math).

Also, if you have any compasses that you'd be willing to donate to the classroom, that would be much appreciated.

Thank you for all your support!

Student Council

Next week (Sept 17-20) is Student Council Election Week!

The student council is a group of students who are elected by their classmates to represent them (like a student government).  Members attend monthly business meetings where they discuss and plan activities, which improve our school and community.  It is a great way to meet other students while doing something worthwhile for your school.

We will have speeches on Wednesday, September 19.
We will vote on Thursday, September 20.

There is a stapled informational packet available to all students interested in running.  Please read over all the pages carefully.  Only decide to run if you are ready to work hard, attend all the meetings, and participate in all the activities.

We will elect 2 representatives from each fourth and fifth grade classroom.  

For ideas for your poster, look at some of these:
http://missliefer.blogspot.com/2010/11/student-council-elections.html

After the monthly meetings you must report back to the class what happened.
Here are two sample videos of how you can report back to the class:
http://missliefer.blogspot.com/2010/12/student-council-december-meeting.html

http://missliefer.blogspot.com/search/label/student%20council

Polygons

What are the different types of polygons?

Have you read this book?  It's a terrific story about a triangle who changes into other polygons.

Check out this Brainpop video about polygons!
http://www.brainpop.com/math/geometryandmeasurement/polygons/preview.weml



Here's one of our favorite polygon songs!  Check it out!


Here's the Parallelogram song!  It's a catchy tune!




Also be sure to check out these posts from last year's class. 
They posted more pictures and videos about polygons!

http://www.missliefer.blogspot.com/2011/08/quadrangles.html

http://www.missliefer.blogspot.com/2011/08/polygons.html

FUN FACT:
The word polygon actually come from the Greek words polu (meaning many) and gonia (meaning angle).

September 11

I recommend watching this Brainpop video about September 11. 
 
It is a free video...you don't even need to type in your username and password for this one.

http://www.brainpop.com/socialstudies/ushistory/september11th/


Here we are wearing our RED, WHITE, and BLUE

Go Green...Problems

Due to the problems that the district is having with e-mails getting caught out in cyberspace and not being delivered in a timely matter, the office is asking all staff to take a break from "going green" and start sending home hard copies to all students.

Therefore, starting today anything that the office or teachers would send out as an e-mail to parents (weekly newsletters, etc) we are going to send home as hard copies to ALL parents.

Two Quick Footnotes: 
#1:  If you subscribe to the BLOG you'll still recieve emails because blogger uses a feed burner not associated with WCUSD5.

#2:  My newsbulletin is still available electronically via http://missliefer.weebly.com/newsbulletin.html

Geometry Practice

This week we used pattern blocks to sort geometric shapes into two categories...

 we also used everyday items (straws and twist ties) to practice geometry

right angle

acute angle

obtuse angle

a square is defined as a rectangle with all sides equal in length

a rhombus--a parallelogram with all sides equal in length
(a square is a special type of rhombus)

triangle

FUNDRAISING

Help Gardner raise money by doing things you may already be doing!

-BOXTOPS
-SCHNUCKS
-DENNY'S
-TARGET
-TYSON

-CAMPBELL'S

-PAPA JOHN'S

for more detailscheck out: http://gardnerelementary.weebly.com/fundraising.html