Upcoming Events Thursday, October 23 - Last day of first term.         Look for Report cards to come home with your students today. Friday, October 24 - No School - P/T Conf Day Monday October 27 - Utah Symphony & Pizza Party         Wear nice clothes and bring a home lunch unless you signed up for a school sack lunch.         Our Pizza party will be at 2:00 YUM! October 27-31 - Red Ribbon Week         Monday - Best Dress Day         Tuesday - Inside-out Shirt Day         Wednesday - Crazy Hair Day (no hats, wigs or coloring)         Thursday - School Spirit Day (Wear your Brookside Tiger Shirt)         Friday - Halloween (Wear your Costume) Friday, October 31 - Halloween         Wear your costume to school - No changing at school         Parade at 2:35         Pick up your students from our classroom if you want to leave before 3:15 Class Stuff Our class earned the upper-grade pizza party from the PTA sponsored "No T.V. Week" challenge.  I am so proud of the fun things that members of our class did besides watching T.V. Social Studies - We have started talking about Archaeology.  See our blog. Science - Our weather unit is in full swing.  We have talked about all the different tools that meteorologists (weather scientists) use and also talk about some properties of air.  Math - We have learned about factors and multiples.  We have been exploring perimeter and area. Language Arts -  We have started our guided reading groups up again.  We are reading some of my favorite fantasy books.  We are exploring how Reading is Thinking! 40 Book Challenge - You should have read about 10 books so far to be on track for our challenge.  If you don't have that many then pump it up. Books we have read as a class that will count are: Fourth Grade Rats (RF), first Guided Reading Book (RF), and Come Back Salmon (I).