The Campfire Chronicles

Congratulations to our Scout of the Week:

Chelsea is our Scout of the Week because she demonstrates good leadership skills. By her own behavior, choices, and attitude, she sets a great example for others:

• Attitude & Work Ethic: Chelsea has a cheerful and positive attitude in all that she does. She is willing to try every activity, even when it is challenging. If she needs help, she asks!

• Integrity: Chelsea is so honest that she will report herself for breaking a rule even when no one noticed!

• Respect: Chelsea treats everyone with respect and kindness.

• Trust: People trust Chelsea because she shows us her integrity, positive attitude, willingness to try new things, and respect for others.

D.E.A.R. Time Merit Badge:
Tues. Krisztina Megan	Wed. Tiano Eric	Fri. Lenny

HALLWAY Merit Badge:
Alexis Brianna Colin Jenna Krisztina Melanie Michael Ryan	Brennan Chelsea Eric Joshua Megan Melissa Nikki Tiano

Congratulations to our "Citizen of the Month" for October:

A "Citizen of the Month" is selected from each class and honored at a school-wide assembly. Students who are selected have demonstrated the characteristics of good citizenship. Criteria include:

• A positive attitude
• Using good manners
• Being thoughtful and helpful
• Showing responsibility
• Putting forth best effort
• Showing concern for others
• Displaying good sportsmanship

Safety Patrol is a community service activity for third graders at our school. Three students from each third grade classroom are selected to serve on the Safety Patrol each week.

Children who are on Safety Patrol stand in the school hallways in the morning as the students arrive, and monitor how students treat each other as they walk to their classrooms.

Camp Linus scouts on Safety Patrol from 10/9 - 10/16:

Nick

Joshua

Jenna

The Camp Linus scouts are now working on two new merit badges:

• Attentive Listening
• Transitions

What is Attentive Listening?

• Mouths and Hands are still (not moving).
• Eyes are on the person who is talking.
• Able to repeat back what the speaker said.

What are Transitions?
Being able to change from one activity to another activity as quietly and efficiently as possible.

New Words:

Organizing:	Putting similar things together.
Category:	A group of similar things.
Label:	The title of our category: What all the things in a category have in common.

Here is one list of mixed-up words that we organized: blue, snow, truck, red, car, rain, train, sunny, green

Colors Blue Red Green

Vehicles Truck Car Train

Weather Snow Rain Sunny

We organized the words into three categories. The labels of the categories are: Colors, Vehicles, and Weather.

When does a word start with a capital letter? Here are the "categories" (that we came up with) of words that start with a capital letter:

• Name of person
• Name of streets
• Towns and cities
• State
• Countries
• Continents
• Planets
• Name of parks
• Name of forests and mountains
• Name of oceans, rivers, and lakes
• Name of stores, banks, & churches
• Months and days
• Title of book
• Title of song, TV show or movie
• Kind of car or bike
• Name of restaurant
• Name of schools
• Name of football and baseball teams
• Name of characters

Can you continue he pattern?
(Hint: Circle the group of objects that keeps repeating):

___ ___ ___ ___ ___

We found two patterns in the "table" of information below:

Stairs 1 2 3 4 #Steps 2 4 6 8 12 ?

One pattern goes down the columns, and one goes across the rows. Can you figure out what they are?

The 23 scouts of Camp Linus are going on a field trip to Camp Snoopy. 7 adults are going also. If each car can take 5 people, how many cars need to go?

During one of our Morning Meetings this week, we read The Night I Followed the Dog.

When a boy wakes up earlier than usual one morning and happens to see his dog stepping out of a limousine, he begins to wonder what his dog does at night. So one night he follows his dog.

It turns out that his dog owns The Doghouse in town - a club for dogs, a place where they can go to relax, talk about their problems with the mailman, and eat biscuits without having to first roll over…a "place where dogs can be dogs."

The words of the story are handwritten, and many of them depict their meaning. The words "roll over" have rolled over. The word "hungry" has bites taken out of the letters. The word "sit" is resting on a chair. A very fun book.

How does an author know what to write, and how does he/she begin?

This week, we practiced "brainstorming" things that we like to read, are interested in, know about, or like to do. We took five minutes with a blank piece of paper to jot down whatever came to mind.

Once we pick something to write about, we get our thoughts organized. We have found these "Graphic Organizers" to be helpful: