Monday, November 13, 2017

Field Trip Wednesday & Classroom News, Nov 13


Dear Families,

We have a field trip to the University of Oregon Museum of Cultural and Natural History this Wednesday, November 15th.  I still need permission slips from 6 students.  Please check your child’s backpack tonight for an orange permission slip.

Wednesday was an exciting morning.  Second graders finally were able to erupt their volcanoes.  If you want to erupt the volcano at home all you need is baking soda and vinegar.  Your child can show you how it works!

In other news we are continuing our study of bats.  Last week we put a few layers of paper mache on our nocturnal creatures.  Next some students have decided to add wings as well.  We are hoping to have our bats completed by art walk, December 7th. In Language Arts students are finishing up their final drafts of their ‘Bat Stories’.  Students were challenged to integrate true bat facts with a creative writing story.  It has been exciting to explore the entire writing process, drafting, editing, revising, and completing a final draft for this assignment. 

Our language arts focus is slowly transitioning from bats to Medieval Times.  This was such a popular topic during project I decided to incorporate it into our literacy activities.  Students are in literature groups reading Knights & Castles or Knight Before Dawn.  Each student will complete a novel study for this unit.  After Thanksgiving Break students will create their own castle.  Please start saving as many shoe boxes and empty paper towel cardboard rolls as you can.  We need 30 shoe boxes and enough empty paper towel cardboard rolls for each student to have at least 4 (120 total).  Thank you for your donations!

Wishing you a wonderful week,
~Donna