November 22, 2013
Dear Families:
I’m starting this Friday
letter at 12:20PM so I’m going to begin with the most important details and see
how far I can get before the pizza arrives.
Other items of interest can wait for another Friday letter!
We are planning a trip to
the library next week on Tuesday.
Several of the children have bus passes, but those who do not will need
$3.00. Our next genre is fairy tales, or
maybe it’s folk tales. I can’t remember,
and I don’t want to take the time to look it up.
Our letters to soldiers
serving in Afghanistan are coming along.
The soldiers are really going to appreciate the time the children have
spent generating lengthy and thoughtful letters. We have also received some items for our gift
package. We asked to have items donated
by December 1, but we’re changing that date to December 4. I’ll send the list along again with this
letter for those who choose to contribute.
We have made progress on
our skit “Who Really Discovered America?”
We made patterns of the continents out of newspaper. We learned how to make the continents to
scale. Our queen size sheet is much
bigger than our 6”by 10” paper map so we had to create our patterns to
scale. Once we have all of the patterns
taped to our sheet, we’ll trace around the patterns. Then we can add details, like islands, and we
can paint the land masses. We might add
a few artistic details too! We also finished
changing the words to our songs for the skit, and we’re almost ready to share
them with the lower elementary children so that we can begin to practice for
the community gathering on December 12.
We have decided as a class
community to add several new elements to our Friday centering time. On Friday morning we will light a candle and
then share a meaningful poem or quote.
We’ll acknowledge one another for individual acts of kindness,
compassion, or support received from one another or noticed about one
another. We may mention our gifts
and drags(what is going well and what is not going well). We’ll close the meeting by blowing out the
candle and then passing it to each person to say a one-word gift to the group.
Student assessments will
go home in the student folders on Tuesday, November 26.
Peace,
Debbie & Sleuths
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