The past few days we have been discussing the election process. What the requirements are to run for president, what the duties are, the general election, and the electoral process that requires 270 electoral votes. We held an election in our class on Tuesday. Our class predicted the outcome.  Our results were:

Obama  17

Romney  6

(1 person was absent)

We will be getting our salmon eggs this Wednesday, Nov. 7.  Yay!! We will be releasing them in January, most likely at Discovery Park.

Congratulations to all our Carroll students and parents, and teachers) who participated itn the Run Because You Can 5K race last Sunday! Our school was very well represented. We had 40 of our Youth Fitness participants run plus a few other students who registered and ran with their parents.  Our class was represented by Allie M. who ran with her older brother and her dad. She did an excellent job by running the entire way. That’s 3.1 miles!! Way to go Allie.

Allie and family

Teachers who ran along with me were my fellow coach Mrs. Genera, third grade teacher Mrs. Rutherford, first grade teacher Mr. Quidgen, and fourth grade teacher Mrs. Burgess. Carroll Comet runners rock!!

Mrs. Rutherford

Mr. Quidgen getting ready

Ms. Burgess

    Here is a link to the Sacramento Bee article plus  photos:  http://www.sacbee.com/2012/10/29/4944779/runnin-for-rhett-event-raises.html

All of our Youth Fitness participanst who ran will be recognized at the assembly on November 16th at 9:00 im the MP room.

waiting for the start

 We’ve been busy the last couple of weeks. Last week we dissected owl pellets to see what type of animal each of them had eaten. There were quite a few mice and voles, but also two students found birds in theirs. Pictures will be posted soon.

visiting the u’machas

Our field trip to Indian Grinding Rock was a lot of fun. We learned a lot about the Miwok Indians.  We were able to experience many of the tools, they used as well as  some of the games they played. Miss Lizzie our museum guide is a Miwok and taught us how to play the hand game.  We went into the uma’chas (houses) and got to look into the round house, as well as see the HUGE grinding rock with 1, 178 mortar holes in it.

Guess who?

Today we had our Dia de los Muertos fiesta. Yesterday we decorated our sugar skulls and made “papael picados” or cut paper banners. Today we made tissue marigolds and celebrated with music and Mexican chocolate to drink

It looks as though we will be getting salmon eggs! Keep checking in for further information about this year’s ‘Fish in the Classroom” project.

We are continuing to work on multiplication concepts and facts. We have covered X 0-5, arrays, and multiplication concepts as “combining equal groups”. Review this week and chapter 4 test.

In Reading we are in the second week of the “City Wildlife” unit. Learning about wildlife that has adapted to urban environments. We will be dissecting owl pellets next week as we focus specifically on birds.

Social Studies will be the last lesson in Chapter 3; California Indians. This lesson will focus on trade, and cultural traditions. We are really looking forward to our field trip on the 29th to  Chaw’se State Park, known as Indian Grinding Rock.

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