Disguise a Turkey Narratives and Crafts

The students are starting a new narrative writing assignment called Disguise a Turkey. We read the story, “‘Twas the Night Before Thanksgiving” and "Turkey Trouble." Turkey Trouble is about a turkey who is trying to avoid getting cooked for Thanksgiving dinner. He disguises himself as a cow, a rooster, a horse, a pig, and other animals. But unfortunately, the other farm animals are still able to identify who he is. 

For our narratives, we will be pretending to have a pet turkey that we have to help disguise and hide so that it doesn't get cooked for Thanksgiving. The students can use their imagination and "dress" their turkey as anything or anyone.

There is also a paper craft to complete with the narrative (templates will be sent home Monday, November 3rd). Students can use any materials to color and decorate their paper turkey (please keep any decorations about the same size as the paper turkey and to not extend it past 8.5"x11"). 

The writing and paper craft project is due Monday, November 16th.

Save the Date: History of Orange County Play

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Please mark your calendars for Tuesday, December 15th, from about 1:15 - 1:45 PM We will be having our third grade play about the History of Orange County that day, and you are invited! Each third grade class performs their own show, and so the more parents in the audience to support the children, the better! Grandparents, aunties, and uncles are welcomed to attend as well.

More information will be provided when all the details are ironed out, but please plan on attending the play to watch your child perform! It is sure to be one of the most memorable events of third grade!

Fall Fun Day 2026

Fall Fun Day was a blast, and it was great seeing the kids dressed up. The kids also loved seeing Mrs. Snyder and Mr. Finley dressed up as well.

2026: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
2025: Artists and Paint Palettes
2024: Inside Out 2
2023: Mr. Battenfield
2022: Mario Kart
2021: Flavors of La Croix
2020: Crayola crayons

In the weeks leading up to Fall Fun Day, the kids shared their Haunted High Rise stories, made a robotic zombie hand craft, spent time with our Little Buddies, and had a great Fall Fun Day party.

Thank you to our Room Parents and volunteers, and all of the families who donated food and supplies to help make our Fall Fun Day extra fun. :0)

Robotic Zombie Hand

As part of the Halloween themed week, students participated in a STEAM inspired robotic “zombie” hand craft! We learned the names of the bones in our hands (distal phalanges, intermediate phalanges, proximal phalanges, metacarpals, and the carpels). Then we made our own robotic hands using cardstock, straws, and twine (thank you to the families who donated supplies). The kids loved the activity, and they are so excited to bring their hand crafts home.

Creature Cafe

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With Halloween around the corner, our class practiced math skills in our Creature Cafe. Students collaborated to make a slideshow filled with spooky Halloween themed food. They searched for images, made creative meal titles, and decided the cost. Then in class, students pretended to order food and practiced adding and subtracting the cost of their meals in our Creature Cafe math booklet.

IPSF Giving Day

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On Thursday, October 15th, all of Irvine Unified will wear orange to represent IPSF Giving Day!

Why Do We Wear Orange?

IPSF Giving Day serves as the official kick-off to the Educational Excellence Fund, a parent and community fundraising effort to provide access to opportunities that have disappeared in our neighboring school districts. We wear orange to raise awareness for the incredible people – mental health professionals, instructional assistants, school nurses, and athletic trainers – and afterschool and summer enrichment programs that make a difference in students’ lives every day. None of this would be possible without the generosity of parents and supporters like you.

Mighty's Haunted Maze

Our amazing Dad's Club (and by the way, if you're a dad, then you should be in the Dad's Club!), is putting together our popular Haunted Maze again! The maze will be open on Friday night, October 30th from 5:30 - 9 pm here at Woodbury Elementary.

The Dad’s Club will be hosting Mighty's Haunted Maze

  • Date: Friday, October 30th from 5:30 - 9:00 PM (MAZE DOORS OPEN AT 6:00 PM)

  • Un-Haunted Hour (Non-Scary, perfect for younger kids): 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM 

  • Haunted Hour (SCARY!): 7:15 PM - 9:00 PM

Where: Woodbury Elementary School
Cost: $12.50; Tickets can be purchased at WoodburyEvents.com.
At the door: $15

Please note, that strollers are not allowed inside the maze. Strollers may be parked outside the maze.

Please help make the decision for your child which maze would be appropriate for him/her to visit. 

Fall Fun Day Costume Guidelines

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Children will be allowed to come to school dressed in a costume, and we will be bringing back our annual costume parade. We will be starting the parade at 8:10 with the kindergarten classes snaking around the school. We will then march up the sidewalk along to Revival and curve around at the portables. We will come in at the gate leading to our blacktop area where we will convene for picture taking. Participation in dressing up is completely optional. Below are the costume guidelines:

  • Children come to school dressed in their costume. We will not allow costume changes to take place at school.

  • Children should wear a costume that can be comfortably worn throughout the entire day.

  • Be sure to have your children wear proper clothes and underclothes underneath their costume just in case they find their costume to be too hot or uncomfortable and wish to take it off before the day is over.

  • Children must still wear their protective face masks to school (even if it’s not part of their costume theme).

  • Children may not wear make-up to school. (For example, no full face make up, no dripping blood, no make-up on hands that will smear on papers.)

  • Children should not bring any object that they will need to hold in their hands. Of special emphasis is our State Education Code that states children may not bring any toy weapons to school of any sort at any time.

  • Children should not come in costumes that depict any kind of graphic violence.

  • Children should be discouraged from wearing any costume material that could be easily damaged.

iReady Math Intervention

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iReady is a math intervention program available both at school and at home. Some students are specifically recommended to the program to help increase math skills. If your child is on the recommendations list, the program will be available to use on the child’s IUSD Clever login account (if the iReady icon is not listed, then your child is not recommended for the program).

Please be sure to have your child practice his/her math skills using iReady at least three times per week. The students are also utilizing the program in class.

To log in, follow these steps:

  1. Go to https://clever.com/in/irvineusd

  2. Click the iReady icon.

  3. Click “Log In with Active Directory”

  4. Enter your IUSD username: 36lastnamefirstname@iusd.org

    • ***Important: If your child’s first or last name is more than eight (8) characters, the system will leave off the last few letters. For example:
      Student Name: “Josephine Sanderson”
      Login Username: “36sandersojosephin@iusd.org”
      The n in the last name, and the e in the first name are left off.

      The first two digits are your child’s high school graduation year.

  5. Click "Next"

  6. Enter student's ID number as the password: 9-digit number

  7. Once logged in to Clever, click on the orange, green, blue cube-shaped icon that says, iReady.

Great California Shake-Out

On Thursday, October 16th, our school will participate in the CA Great Shakeout- a day to practice emergency drills statewide. All students and staff will participate in a full drill to practice safety procedures. The staff will practice search and rescue, as well as mock first aid procedures, however this is only a practice drill.

In the event of a real emergency, students will ONLY be released to parents/guardians who have checked in at one of the two Reunion Stations. You must show ID to match the student’s emergency release form. Please do not pick up your child before checking in at the Reunion Station. Staff members will not release students prior to confirming guardian ID. Thus, it is important to make sure your contact information for your child is up to date at all times.

If appropriate for your family, you may choose to have a discussion with your child regarding what to do if there were truly an emergency situation (both during school times and at home). It is important for children to know what to do and how to stay safe. Here at Woodbury, the staff’s number one priority is to keep children safe. We review and practice our safety procedures regularly so that our school is always prepared.