DESPERATE!!

We are in desperate need of healthy snacks!  We appreciate whatever you are able to donate.


As always - thank you for your generosity.

Milestone #1 for our Amazing People Exhibition is Due February 9th.  I've been encouraging the students to bring them in early in order to correct any errors before February 9th.  This milestone requires 3 book sources and 3 website resources.  Any student who completes the milestone in time, with all correct information, will participate in Fun Friday!

Our students’ first narrative for the 2011-2012 school year was scheduled to come home today, January 27, 2012.  However, due to technical difficulties we will send them home next week.  The expected date I Monday, January 30, 2012.

COLLEGE PROJECT UPDATE

I’m so IMPRESSED WITH HOW THE STUDENTS HAVE WORKED ON THEIR COLLEGE PROJECTS.  THE FOLLOWING STUDENTS HAVE ALREADY COMPLETED AND SENT THEIR BUSINESS LETTERS:

              Morgan

              Lauryn

Micah

Madison

K’myiah

Kayla

Devin

Darnishia

Joshua

Now we need to wait for all the packages from the colleges to come in. That is always exciting to see what is sent!

We have started Phase 2 of the project this week.  We have looked at Feature Articles and the characteristics of the articles.  Some of these are: a title, captions, pictures, maps, graphs, paragraph chunks.

Students do not have the information yet to actually write the articles.  So far the only homework assignment was to bring in an article and find some of the characteristics.

The following 2 steps are needed to complete Phase 2 of the College Project:

Phase 2

Compare the information about the three colleges with assigned criteria on the Facts and Figures sheet.

Write a feature article comparing two colleges and picking the best one out of the 3 colleges that they sent letters to)

This will be written mostly in class, however information on how to access it on Google Docs will be forth coming.

 

UPA is participating in fundraiser to help Leukemia patients. The students have collection boxes that they should have brought home already. They can collect pennies and bring them to school for our class' box. The class that raises the most money gets a pizza party from the organization.  We have one more week left to collect.  This is our second community service project and the kids are really excited about helping other children.  

CONGRATULATIONS TO MADISON!  MADISON WAS THE FIRST ONE TO TURN IN HER MILESTONE #1.  IT IS GOING TO BE AN AMAZING EXHIBITION!