Happy Thanksgiving!!!

I hope you all have a wonderful and blessed Thanksgiving. Make sure you are enjoying your few days off. It is beautiful outside, so go outside and use some of that energy and be ready to learn next week. I miss you!

Love,
Mrs. Bendall

Thank You Veterans

Students,

Thank you for collecting magazines for our troops. I will be shipping those this week. I am sure that the troops will be very thankful to receive them. This will show them how proud we are of them for standing up for our freedoms and fighting for us. I will also be including the wonderful cards that you created. I was very impressed with your words and art work.

Thank you students and thank you soldiers!!!!

Inventors and Artists

Today we have been fashioning clay into different shapes to celebrate art. Unit 3 in reading is about inventors and artists. We have been discussing what people gain from the work of inventors and artists. Students became artists on Friday, November 6th when they fashioned clay into different forms. The clay will be baked and then they will be able to take their art home with them. Can you think of other things we gain from the work of inventors and artists? Please post on our blog if you have ever gained from their work.

Have a great weekend!!!

Remember, someone had to invent the computer you are looking at.

Mrs. Bendall

Great Idea!

Boys and Girls,

I am so proud of your recommendations for our "Doing the Right Thing" reading project. We will begin our two projects immediately. Please bring in your cans for recycling and newspapers for the troops through the month of October. We will continue to collect cans until spring when we purchase and plant our trees. I will ship the newspapers to our troops in November. Again, I am very proud of your ideas and excitement about this project. Together, we can make a difference!!!

Mrs. Bendall

Wildlife Activity

Hello enthusiastic students!

Today I would like for you to send me some ideas about conservation and animals. What do you think that we (Russellville Elementary School) could do to help protect wild animals? In this week's story, Jane Goodall's Ten Ways to Help Save Wildlife, we have learned several suggestions. What do you think we could do? Think creatively and make up some of your own ideas.

Remember the 3 R's: Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle!!!

Love,
Mrs. Bendall

Homecoming

Homecoming activities will be held this Friday, October 9th. School will dismiss at 1:00 pm. We will also have Fall Break on Monday, October 12th, so don't come to school on that day! Yeah! Can you think of an example of figurative language to celebrate fall break or homecoming? If so, post it on our blog!!!

What is your favorite type of figurative language?

It's your time to shine!!! Leave a post with your favorite type of figurative language. Don't forget to tell me what type it is.

My favorite type of figurative language is a simile.

The candy parachutes fell from the sky like small floating marshmallows.