November
14, 2014
Dear Families,
Early
in the week we shared our “small moment” writing with Ms.
Peternell’s class. An important part
of the writing process is to share with an “audience” and it has been a lot of
fun. The listeners comment on
strong leads, endings, and strong details, make connections… and certainly offer
lots of compliments! Each student
will bring home his/her personal narrative today to share with you. Enjoy! If you could please bring the narratives back to school, on
Monday, we will put them into the student portfolio. We are now working on persuasive writing…! Forming
opinions, crafting a thesis statement and giving reasons why we hold this
opinion. Wow!
We
have had an interesting week weather wise. Our focus has been on the atmosphere
and what goes on 4 miles up, 8 miles up, 12 miles up and so forth. We discovered that most weather happens
just a few miles up. Also, we have
investigated with water in the air using humidity strips. (lots
of fun!) In fact, your child can
show you when they bring home a humidity strip today. Lastly, the kids have figured out the “mystery object” that
we have been taking measurement readings from… curious? Ask your budding meteorologist more
about it.
Our
multiplication unit has begun as you
have seen from the home links. We
will introduce easy, fun games to play that help with fact recall. Please make the time to play them at
home as well. Also, information on Reflex Math
came home yesterday, along with your child’s password. This is a useful resource to practice
addition and multiplication facts.
Check it out!
Lastly,
I am in need of some “behind-the-scene” help cutting and gluing student poetry
books. If you have a few hours to
spare and like this sort of activity please send word! Thank you for considering this in
advance!
Tonight
at 7 pm the Court Jesters play a basketball game
at Traip Academy… this is a great fundraiser for our Kittery Rec Department and
it is guaranteed good time fun for
the whole family if you are looking to get out!
Lastly,
our annual Food Drive has begun.
Food items can be brought to the front office all next week. Thank you for your support.
Enjoy
the weekend~