Our kiddos started it this week. They've gotten their dose of Officer Penrod, and I'm not sure they can get enough. They found him hilarious. He captured their attention this week and got them excited for the 13 weeks or so with him. Our picture this week is of him teaching the group. While we're on the subject of DARE, your student should have brought home a permission slip for them to be in the class. Those need to be back by Friday for them to be able to participate. If by chance they lost the actual form, you can just write them a note saying they are allowed to participate in the program.
Believe it or not we're getting pretty close to being halfway through term 3 already. The term ends the end of March. Time seems to just be flying by! Things are going really well though. This week is going to be a busy week for us. The Jazz/Usborne reading contest is over and we were one of the top 10 schools in the competition. This mean Tuesday we will be having an assembly starring one of the Jazz players. On Wednesday, we have Clark Planetarium bringing a field trip to us. We will have an assembly with them and then they will dedicate about 50 minutes to each 6th grade class. It should be a pretty good presentation. Then coming on Thursday we have a visiting Author and a visiting storyteller. It's going to be a fun week!
On top of all the fun though, we will still be following our standard procedures. Our story this week will be My Name is San Ho. In Math we will be working a bit with graphs, and then reviewing for our February Benchmark test. Science will be reinforced by the Planetarium's visit, but we will still also be diving into our exploration of the planets.
A note has gone this week telling you parents about the Art Gala. It's a fundraiser the school does each year where each class participates by donating an item. This year, the items they have asked the classes to donate are gift baskets. The theme for our gift basket is going to be Twilight. We are asking that each family help by donating something to our basket. We already have the baskets, so we are looking for just different Twilight collectibles and memorabelia. If you would like to purchase the books or movies, please talk with me first to be sure that someone has not already purchased it, so we won't have duplicates.
Thanks for your support in building our class basket. In fact, thanks for your support in everything!
"The beautiful thing about being human... things change." Edward Cullen, Twilight
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