Edible Maps!

To culminate our study of map elements and places in the United States (as well as around the world), we created edible maps on Wednesday afternoon! The students had a lot of fun locating the Great Lakes, the Mississippi, James, and Rio Grande rivers, and the Appalachian and Rocky mountain ranges. It was a sweet treat to end a rainy day! :)

Parent Conferences, Field Trips, and Pumpkins!

Permission slips went home in the Fox Folders today (Thursday) about our upcoming field trip October 29th to the Science Museum of Virginia in Richmond. Please be sure to check your child's folder for more information!

Parent conferences are coming! Parent conferences will be held on Tuesday, October 19 and Wednesday, October 20. In Tuesday's Fox Folder, a form will be sent home to sign up for a time. Please mark your first, second, and third choice for a conference. Can't make it in? Phone conference times are also available at your convenience!

A note went home in your child's homework folder asking for a pumpkin for a project we will be doing on Thursday, October 28. If you can send in a pumpkin, that would be great! If you cannot, know that students will be grouped together, so it is not necessary for everyone to bring one in. Thanks so much for helping us out if you can! :)

Snowy Summaries

In celebration of "A Snowy Day" we read books that centered around snow, both fiction and nonfiction. We then wrote a brief summary about the book we read, copied it on a mitten, and hung our mittens out to "dry." Notice our snowy scene where we shared with everyone our book titles as well as our "drying" summaries! Students did a fantastic job! Please be sure to check these out during Parent Conferences!

A Snowy Day

We wanted to share with you some of the events from our "Snowy Day" today at Moss-Nuckols! Thanks to everyone who dressed in "snowy" gear for the day! We had fun walking around with our scarves, mittens, and hats (and some even had boots!). Our day began with a great assembly where we learned a rap about reading and saw a funny play where Cam Jansen and Nate the Great helped solve the mystery of the missing snowball! (Swiper, you tricky fox!). Our day ended in the courtyard where our special celebrity reader, Mrs. Green, read us the story of The Snowy Day, while we ate cookies and drank hot chocolate, and even surprised us with some snow! We had a great day!