Moving into Week 5

I feel that the class is coming together well and ready to tackle more learning! I plan to have ongoing projects that integrate different subject areas. Some will be short term while others will take a few weeks. The students have time in class to work on them, but there will probably be times that your student will need to do some work at home. If you ever have questions or concerns, please contact me. I'm trying to push the students, yet I don't want to overwhelm them.

This week, they have chosen a tribe or tribes of Native Americans to read about and prepare a powerpoint presentation. They are assigned two separate sources to draw from, but they may use others that they discover. The project is due this Friday. Your student has the necessary information and can give you more details.

Tomorrow, I'm assigning a specific writing piece. They will have a couple of weeks to take this piece through the writing process. The assignment is to write a first person narrative about the Monarch's journey. This writing combines our Science studies with writing and also English Grammar.

Some very important events are on the horizon so please take note:

• Tuesday and Thursday this week: XC practice at the fairgrounds parking lot. If it's raining, we'll stay at school and do sprints and yoga.
• Tuesday and Thursday: Band and dance. Remember instruments and dance clothes.
• Thursday 9/27: School pictures
• Saturday 9/29: Spartan Invitational XC meet. I'll let you know what time we will meet there.

• Saturday 9/29: Harvest dinner
• Friday and Monday 10/5 and 10/8: Goal setting - no school. All parents and students must participate. Schedule your time in the office. Return your parent survey this week.
• Friday 10/5: XC meet at Pipestem. We'll plan to meet at Pipestem at 3:30 for some fun together, and then run in the meet. I'll send details next week.

GrabNGo starts this week! The menu is chicken strips with ranch dressing, fruit/grain cereal bars, blueberry muffins, and clementines. Thank you, Tanya and Gretchen. Please talk to Tanya about participating in this fundraiser for our kids.

This was a long post and I appreciate you sticking with me to the end. I'm enjoying your kids and the challenge of keeping them stimulated and focused.

Mrs. J