Today we are going to have the pleasure of meeting Linda Sue Park, author of A Single Shard that many of our fourth graders have read.
This Friday is our Spelling Bee - please wish our two finalists luck, Jason Bold and Ilse Cowan. Our class alternate is Zoe Berstein.
Our class field trip to the Art Institute will be on Friday, May 25. The fee of $6.00 along with the field trip permission slip are due by next Wednesday, May 9 (sooner would be better!)
We just finished reading our class novel, Becoming Naomi Leon. In that novel, the main character, Naomi, finds that she has a connection to her long estranged father through her soap carving. The children expressed an interest in carving soap in class and so I am asking parents to provide the soap! If you could send a bar of plain, white soap such as Ivory with your child by this Friday, that would be a big help.