IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT for Verbal students: Verbal students who are going on the trip to Kean University on December 1st should refer to the permission slip for time and place to meet, and when you will return to your school. Go to the Photos/Docs page and click on "Nesse Godin Trip 12.1.09" to review the nature of the trip. Click on "Permission Slip for the Kean University Trip 12.01.09" to review time, place, etc. ******************************************************************** There are many useful links for you to explore on my "Links" page. Click over to the page and find places to go on the Internet that are informative, fun or just plain yukky! **************************************************************************** Check here weekly for important announcements. If you have added your e-mail address to the "News Flash" page, you will receive a link to this Web site every Friday. For Third Grade TAG, our theme for the year is "Mystery". We'll solve court cases and then write our own. We will also meet the challenge of solving "Challenge Boxes" throughout the year. Look for a box to come home with your child sometime in the next few weeks. In Fourth Grade TAG, we have choosen our own topics to investigate on the Web, and then we are using HyperStudio to display the results. Students are learning about any topic of their choosing. We have developed a working knowledge of HyperStudio, a multi-media software package that allows students to draw and to save graphics and sound files from the Internet. We are using HyperStudio to present the results of Internet-based research. In Fifth Grade TAG, for half the year, we will find out about how to begin a small business. In the second half of the year, we will learn how to make money in the stock market! In Fifth Grade Verbal, we are reading and writing our own short stories. We will also learn how to be storytellers in the Appalachian Mountain tradition.