I hope that everyone had a wonderful day on our Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday. He is one of our Georgia heroes this nine weeks, so please talk to your child about how life was in the 60's and how it has changed to help with understanding. We went to the media center today to check out a book on "Nature" for our January book project. The students checked out books on topics such as rocks, crystals, rain forest, plants, fossils, deserts, tornadoes, earth quakes... We discussed how some of the questions on the accordion sheet weren't the best for these topics, so feel FREE to CHANGE the questions in any way! The main purpose for this project is to be able to relate some informaion learned about a non-fiction topic. Also if your child has any visuals to share when speaking- even better. We'll walk around the room looking at the accordian books, so make them colorful. Remember the due date is February 3.
Also, we are getting ready for Leadership Day! Portfolios, data notebooks, speaking parts, greeters, tour guides, and showing what great leaders we can be when visitors observe a lesson in our classroom will be just a part of this special day! Please encourage your child to be their personal best and begin planning how to dress as a leader for that day.
FYI: Our RAH Minutes data sheet for this week should be Week 20. We'll start on the back side next week. We'll change the sheet next year to include the holidays which confused us! Live and learn! Thanks for understsanding!
Hopefully everyone got the report card and celebrated your child's accomplishments! Science Night flyers went home and we'd love to have you. Please remember to RSVP on the green flyer. Our focus for this week is non-fiction, comparing and contrasting, adding 3 digits with regrouping and estimation, and writing "Snow Adventure Narratives" using transition words. So much to do!
