What Happening!

Dear Families,
First, I would like to share with you what a tremendous job your children did today as historical experts at our "Wax Museum" event! Most students were in a costume to represent their chosen historical figure. The entire school had a chance to come into our room, view the dioramas your children created,and ask questions about why their historical figure was important. As you know, your children have also been working hard on their historical personal narratives. Wow! What a great job they have done. They have also been very patient with me as I've asked them to rewrite, rewrite, and rewrite! Their narratives will be on display in my room. Please feel free to stop by for a visit.
We will be starting two new projects in the coming weeks. The first will be focusing on the solar system - however, ours will be edible. This project will cover math, science, and writing standard. As a final product, I'm hoping to either create notecards with the students original art or an "Out of this World " cookbook. If we write the cookbook, recipes will use the fruits and vegetables we are making the solar system with. The second project will be focused on money. This project will focus on math (percentages,decimals, division, etc...) along with some history. I'm hoping for a field trip to a bank. Additionally, we will be opening a school store with the students in charge of ordering snacks, pencils, etc...and keeping track of the profits. I need to talk to the students, but think a good idea is to use the profits towards additional computers. Whew!
Ok - just a couple of reminders. There is no school on Monday, January 19th due to Martin Luther King day. Also, we have another performance coming up called Classics4Kids. Please send $6 with your child as that is the cost per seat. I recently went to a Classics4Kids training and am sharing that information with your children to enrich their experience.
I think that's it for now! As always, please contact me with any concerns.
Sincerely,
Kim