Week 8 / Week 9

   We are continuing to read Tuck Everlasting in Reading.  The students seem to be enjoying the book and we have had some great class discussions.  We will finish the book this week and will have a test the following week.  

   In both 4th and 5th Grade Writing, we started and finished their First Person Biography Narratives. This week we will work on conventions in their writing. 

   In Projects, we are off and running with playing our very own "Game of Life." The students have to pay their own bills every month(Each day is representing at least one month). They have to draw their own life cards and they have to enter all of this data on a budget spreadsheet that I have provided them with. We will continue to do this in Week 9.  The students will have a vocabulary quiz on Wednesday or Thursday, please encourage them to study this weekend. I will allow time in class a few minutes a day. We will wrap up this project in week 10, the students will then have to present to the class how well they did with their budgeting.  Some of the groups are learning how they can pay their cars or other loans off ahead of time, its been a fun project. 

Drama

   The students will be performing a play on Thursday from 2:30-3:15 in the cafeteria. I hope you can make it, they have been working hard on this.  I know this is in the middle of the day and a lot of you have to work. I will try and find someone to record this so maybe I can share on my blog somehow so everyone can watch. If anyone is willing to record this, please let me know :)

The students will start with new specials in Week 10.

Auction

   Thank you to all of you who have donated items for the auction, we have some really neat things! We will auction off items each day this week at the end of the day.  If any of you still have items, please bring them in anytime or send them with your child.

Parent Teacher Conferences

  Parent Teacher Conferences will begin on Friday, October 24th.  I will email more information on that next week so we can start scheduling your appointments. 

Thank you to all who have sent in Halloween Decorations! The students have done a fabulous job at decorating our room. 

Hope everyone has a Great Weekend!