Parent Volunteers are welcome to start coming in this week. If they'd rather not start till next week, that is fine too. A notice was sent home last week with an updated schedule. Please remember to coordinate with those who share your volunteer time so that you can alternate weeks.
Starting this week the class will have a new regular homework assignment - Current Events. Students will be asked to find and read news articles, write a summary and reflection, and present them to the class. We will be practicing this process as a class on Monday. The class will be divided into two groups (A and B) so that each student is given the assignment every other week.
This week we will...
...begin our Native Californians learning centers (Chapter 2 of Social Studies). Over the next few weeks we will be learning all about the Native American tribes throughout California.
...continue reading Island of the Blue Dolphins. We should be completing the novel in the next two weeks, then moving on to The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau. We do not have a class set of this book so students are welcome to bring their own copy.
...read a story about the Titanic. This is the third story of the "Journeys" theme in our Language Arts reader.
...have our first lesson from Senora Murray! She will be here Wednesday mornings for the first half of the year to teach the class Spanish!
...visit the library on Friday morning. Last week the students were able to check out books for the first time, so they are due back this Friday.
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