*It is not much longer until Halloween! This week there will be a Guess the Candy contest all week.  You can make a guess for .25 cents.  The jar and tickets will be outside the cafeteria!    *Our Roots of Empathy classes will start this week!  Our instructor, Kim Lenhart will visit on Monday and our baby, Elena and her mom, will visit on Thursday!! Yeah!!     Language Arts - I am very pleased with how our Daily 5 rotations are going.  We will continue to try to have 3 rotations each day!  Mini lessons this week will be on the Writing Trait of Ideas, making sentences and we will add a new strategy under Comprehension and Acuracy on our Cafe wall. Spelling - We will have a SPELLING TEST on Friday for our October words! Math - We will be counting large numbers.  I have a yummy peanut free surprize for you to count! We will also look at the Expanded Form of 3 digit numbers. Social Studies - We will be finishing up our Atlantic Region projects.  You are doing a fantastic job!! Keep up the great work!   Let's have another Superstar week and welcome to our newest Superstar, Landon, who will be joining us on Monday! ...and welcome back Emma-Ann and Bethany.  We missed you!