Doodle for Google Contest!

Discovery Education is excited to work with Google to bring their annual art competition,Doodle 4 Google , to classrooms across the country. Google is asking students to show what makes them unique by designing their very own Google logo around the theme, "What makes me...me."

In addition to having their drawing featured on the Google homepage for a day, the national winner will receive:

• $30,000 college scholarship
• $50,000 technology grant for their school
• Trip to Google headquarters in Mountain View, California to meet the Doodle team

The contest ends on December 7th, 2015, so time is almost up. Encourage your students to submit their creations before the deadline next week, and let the doodling begin!

Inspire your students with free classroom activities and videos
Get your students doodling today with a three-part series designed to stretch student's creative muscles and warm up for the Doodle 4 Google competition. Each activity pack includes a classroom activity for K-2, 3-5, 6-8, and 9-12 grade bands with a complementary video featuring the Doodlers in action. Download the activities and videos today.

Box Top Contest

Let's see how many BoxTops we can collect before our trackout day on November10th? Do you think we could collect 100?  Ask your family, neighbors, and friends because it is an easy way to raise money for Brassfield!

BYOD Letter from Wake County on it' s way home!

Families,
We have sent home the BYOD letter with the scholars.  Please also refer to the BUZZ for some important information.

Please sign and return as soon as possible for our records!

Have a great weekend.

Brian Selznick is coming....Brian Selznick is coming! We hope to see you at the book signing!!

Brian Selznick Article

Great Information about Brian Selznick Book Signing!! Coming Soon! I'll post more before October 16th!

You can get tickets a couple of ways:

• Buy "The Marvels" from Quail Ridge and get as many as five tickets for the program. You'll also get a ticket for the signing line to have him sign your book. The book sells for $32.99. It's best to call the store to order your book as soon as you know you're going so you can get an earlier signing line ticket.
• $5 admission only tickets also are available (but you won't get a ticket for the signing line).

http://www.wral.com/-hugo-cabret-author-comes-to-raleigh-with-new-book-multimedia-program/14947361/

A message from Spanish!

This fall, the students at Brassfield will be learning all about the cultural practices, products, and perspectives of the Mexican people! We are going to be studying the popular Mexican holiday, El Dia de Los Muertos (Day of the Dead). Day of the Dead is celebrated on November 1st and 2nd. The Mexican people celebrate the lives of their loved ones who have passed away, and during these 2 days they participate in many traditions! The students will be learning about Mexican traditions such as making sugar skulls, eating sweet bread (pan de muerto), decorating houses with marigolds, and special Day of the Dead dances. 5th graders will even get to decorate their own sugar skull to bring home! Because of track out schedules, Track 3 will be participating in these activities on Monday, October 19. Tracks 1,2,4 will be participating in these activities during the week of the actual holiday. If you have any questions about the activities that we will participate in during class, please do not hesitate to email me directly at elipetzky@wcpss.net. Gracias!

Senora Lipetzky

A Riddle Made by Scholars in G4/T2 - Can you solve it? Let the kids know if you do!

                                               ?   Age Mysteries   ?

By: Grace, Tyler, Henry, Sean, and Sohail

The kids at the community pool never talk about their

ages.  Till one day the waiter over heard some clues

about their ages.

Clues

 Everyone is under the age of 18

 Tyler and Sean’s ages are even numbers

 Grace is the youngest of the group

 Grace is four years younger than Sohail

 Tyler’s age is (6x4)/2

 Henry is the oldest

 Sean’s age is (32x2)/4

 Nobody is 18

 Sohail is 3 years older than Tyler

Can you figure out there ages using the clues and 

write there ages in the chart?

    Grace        Sohail         Tyler       Henry         Sean