December 8, 2009 Good Day everyone. I’m sorry that I’ve been tardy about updating everyone. It is very cold in my room. I have been telling students to wear warm clothing and to bring coats! I’m always surprised at the end of the day how many are left behind! Please superglue a sweatshirt, coat, warm pants to your child! The monthly projects are due a week from Wednesday (December 16th). If students want to turn it in earlier, that would be great! The presentation portion of the project is to show their postcard of the National Park or Monument in which the student “visited”. They need to explain the historical significance, geography of the area (using the 5 themes of geography) and any other interesting information. The presentation should be about three to five minutes. I will start presentations next Monday (12/14) but the journal need not be turned in until Wednesday. We are continuing with our in-class projects this week: Organizational skills in writing and Discovery colonization simulation. All this work will be done during class time. The writing is due on Thursday. There are additional small components to the Discovery colonization simulation – mainly diary entries. The first one is due tomorrow. In math we are working on area, perimeter and volume. A test in Math will be next Wednesday or Thursday. Heads up, this math test is hard and students really need to read the directions – something I have been working on since the beginning of school. We are doing fencing Thursday afternoon. Make sure you child wears tennis shoes since they are working in the MPR and the floor is a bit slippery. Finally, I will be doing lots of grading during winter break so progress reports will go out the end of the first week in January. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me. Karen