Homework
1. Cumulative Timed Test (0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10) next Monday. Study 15 minutes per day. I'm going to send home a log for this; each day, please sign it if your child studied for 15 minutes. This log is due Monday.
2. Math packet dealing with area of rectangles and rectangular figures is due Monday.
3. Spelling check-in Friday (life, always, those, both, paper, together, got, group, often, run).
Notes
1. Your child will take an assessment on area of rectangles and rectangular figures on Friday. We are in the midst of practicing calculating area of rectangular figures. The other portions of the assessment will be about calculating area using "tiling" or the traditional length x width algorithm.
2. Our Gathering is Thursday @ 2:20. This date has changed because there would be a lot of problems having it on Friday, with it being a half-day. I apologize if this causes any inconvenience in your scheduling.
3. Our Thought for the Week is: "If you think history is boring, you're crazy..."
4. Our Gathering will consist of mostly what we've learned about in history so far (Native Americans, settlers, explorers, etc.), but will also have what we've learned about area and our process for our zoo persuasive pieces.
Class Movie Filming Tomorrow!!
5. We are "world premiering" our class movie about settlers ("Do You Want to Be a Settler") at Gathering. The students planned and wrote this movie and we are filming it all tomorrow morning, so I have time to edit and publish the film before Gathering. I hope all are present, but if anyone is absent, we'll still have to stick to our schedule. Some students are settlers for our movie, if so, they will have an index card. They were chosen because they said they had clothes like button down shirts (not super fancy, but ones without modern patterns/images). I hope this is correct, if it's not, please don't feel you have to go out and buy something just for this movie; we'll monitor and adjust. Your child might also ask if they can borrow a prop from home; we'll take good care of it.
6. Thursday is Ms. Newton's last day. Let me tell you, she did a fantastic job. She put her heart and soul into her work with your children. We'll be sad to see her go, but I know that she'll be a successful teacher and your children were a part of her journey.
7. Friday is a half-day. Dismissal is at 11:30; we will still have after care.
Passing of the Cans
8. Every year our school does a canned food drive and it's one of my favorite times of the year. We run it a little different in our class than some classes might. The number one goal is trying to collect food for hungry or "food insecure" people in our area. But, we don't tally or set a class goal for this. Instead, we focus on how to earn the opportunity to help someone. This morning, we spoke about how helping someone usually requires a sacrifice of some kind. It might be money, time, or resources, but it's rare that you can help someone without it costing you anything. So, I'd rather the kids try to earn cans instead of just raiding your pantries for cans that you bought. I would love for you to contribute some of the cans that you bought, but it would be really awesome if the kids did things to earn cans. We came up with ideas as a class:
-taking care of pets for an agreed upon length of time.
-pulling weeds
-giving mom an hour off by watching younger siblings
-doing the dishes
-taking out the trash
-offering to sacrifice one Christmas present to buy cans for hungry people
-using money we've already earned
-not just cleaning your room or doing your expected chores
We will be collecting cans from now until Friday, December 12th.
**Thank you Mrs. Robinson for finding this info!
Our most needed food items include:
- canned meat and fish
- peanut butter (in plastic jars)
- canned vegetables and fruits
- breakfast cereal
- personal care items (soap, shampoo, etc.)
- any nutritionally dense foods
- See more at: http://www.harvesthope.org/food
