NATIONAL APPLE BETTY DAY – October 5

NATIONAL APPLE BETTY DAY

On October 5, fall ushers in National Apple Betty Day with a sweet aroma of apples baked in cinnamon and oats. 

Similar to what is known as apple crisp, crumble or cobbler, the American variant known as the Betty or Brown Betty dates from colonial times. Most Apple Betty recipes call for cinnamon, sugar and butter to make the crumbs that top sliced apples. Sometimes oats or flour are added, too. 

As the temperatures begin dropping outside, apple Betty recipes warm the home and fill it with delicious fragrances. Apple Betty recipes allow a child’s hand to help prepare the dessert, making it a family event. The season is ideal for this treat, too. Tart apples just off the tree call out for autumn recipes like these.

Apple Brown Betty was one of the favorite desserts of Ronald and Nancy Reagan in the White House. 

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Enjoy these Apple Betty recipes:

Apple BettyApple Brown BettyGrandma’s Apple Brown Betty

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NATIONAL APPLE BETTY DAY HISTORY

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Upcoming Events

• Thursday

  8:00 AM School Pictures
• 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM PTO Meets

• October 7, 2019

  6:00 PM Duneland School Board Meeting

• October 15, 2019

  End of the 1st Grading Period
• 6:00 PM Digital Citizenship Parent Night

• October 18, 2019

  5:30 PM - 7:30 PM Brummitt Bash

• October 23, 2019

  8:00 AM - 9:00 AM Red Ribbon Week

• October 24, 2019

  8:00 AM - 9:00 AM Red Ribbon Week

First Grade:
We  took the time this week  to share our connections homework. The children needed to find objects at home that were connected such as salt and pepper shaker, bed and blanket,

toothbrush and toothpaste, etc.... We then moved on to talking about non-connections and how they could still be connected. I used the example doorknob and snake. They gave me a confused look. I asked them if they had any idea how they could be connected. Most of the children said the snake could wrap around the door knob. Good observation!! I also pointed out that the snake and doorknob both twist and turn and are both smooth to the touch.  I told them that we will continue to explore how we make connections between symbols and meanings. I had them open their  workbook to 3.2 and projected a message on the screen. The message was a cipher message so it looked very confusing to the children. They noticed that the message was grouped together to make words. We talked about cryptography which is the science of secrets. I explained to them that Roman Emperor, Julius Caesar, used this method thousands of years ago when sending important messages. I explained how to use the Caesar cipher wheel and we got started as a class decoding the message.

Second Grade:

We started off the week by partnering up to highlight a nonfiction paragraph. I introduced the hamburger model as another structure used for good writing. It shows the thesis (top of the bun), three supporting details (patty,lettuce and cheese), and the conclusion (bottom of bun). We met back at the doc cam to analyze the paragraph from The Marvelous Mattie. We used different colored pencils to find the top bun, the patty, cheese, lettuce, and the bottom. We sang the hamburger model song, then brain stormed ideas for our persuasive paragraph. We started with our thesis and the three supporting details.

3rd Grade

Last week we read the biography on  Paul Goble  and made many inferences about his

character. I read a story by Goble to the children called, The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses. I stopped along the way to discuss interactions between the characters. The students pointed out obvious interactions that occurred between the girl and horse and the girl and her tribe. I encouraged them to think about the subtle interactions as well. With clipboards, we continued sitting at our reading center and filled in an interaction chart using the book. 

The three columns we had to fill in were character, specific interaction, and inferred trait. We did "girl vs horse" or "people vs bull" to list who or what the interactions were between.  We filled up half the chart together they then worked on the rest with partners. 












4th Grade:

We took one last day to finish up their Pages Interview On Change project. Some of the girls still needed to work on recording their voices and some still needed to draw a before and now picture.  On Tuesday, the girls took turns sitting in the reading chair to present their project to the class. The class seemed to really enjoy hearing the stories from each other. They were so excited to share with everyone.  I am very proud of all their hard work and how much they learned from this project.  

   

1st Grade:

This week in math, the children played a fun game against each other. The game was on Kahoot and was all about measurements.

The children had so much fun! A few were still confused about the scale and how it works. We then took some time using our hands as scales again. By the end everyone was a winner!!

















2nd Grade:

This week we continued working with lines of symmetry.  The children needed to fold four  3x3 colored squares. They cut them up to into 8 triangles to use on a worksheet. They needed to manipulate the colored triangles to to fit into 3x3 boxes. 

The requirement was to use two colors.  The design was up to them!  A few struggled with this activity. I explained to them that this is something  that takes time. They are still a bit uncomfortable, but we will continue working on this next week. The most important lesson they learned was what a line of symmetry  is.  







3rd Grade:

This week we worked on a Think Deeply.  The Think Deeply question challenges the children to make sense of the key mathematical concepts.  The question was, " Courtney's dad gave 

her 23 square tiles. How many fish can she seat around the tiles"?  A couple of the kids yelled out the answer right away. 
I told them that's great that they know the answer, but now they need to write how they could solve the problem. I had them all meet at our reading area and we discussed the possible responses. We had a short week because I was out on Wednesday. We will pick this back next week. 











4th Grade:

We worked on a Think Deeply where the students needed to explain to a friend who was absent what a parallelogram is and to draw one. They also needed to explain if a square was a parallelogram. We took most of the class period working on this. We then met back up and discussed the possible answers. Most of the answers were pretty similar, such as a parallelogram is a quadrilateral with 4 sides that are equal in length and parallel. They all agreed that a square is a parallelogram too! We will continue with this lesson next week. We had a short week because I was out on Wednesday.

Enjoy you have a great weekend!