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 7^th. 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

Harvest Party & Classroom News Oct 30th

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Monday, October 30^th, 2017

Dear Families,

Thank you to everyone who attended conferences last week.  It was wonderful talking with all of you.

This week is very exciting because we have our traditional costume parade on Tuesday.  Students can wear costumes during the morning. Please leave all pretend weapons, masks, and extremely scary items at home for your evening fun.  Also, our class is having a Harvest Celebration.  If you are able to send in healthy treats to share we would really appreciate it.  If you want to attend the celebration tomorrow afternoon this is our schedule: 1:00-1:15 set up (0ne or two parents to help would be amazing), 1:15-1:30 eat treats, 1:30 – 2:00 movie with room 14.  Please email if you are sending in treats or planning to attend.

Please DO NOT send in candy for snack on Wednesday.  All school snacks are required to have some nutritional value. 

In other news, Art Block begins on Thursday. This is a very special time at Camas Ridge because EVERY student in the building will be learning art techniques.  At Camas Ridge we value art education. Mark your calendar for December 7^th. This is our first Art Walk of the year.

Have a Wonderful Week!

~Donna

Nearby Nature Field Experience

Our field experience at Nearby Nature was a grand success! We followed up our experience by writing about it in class this week.  Enjoy the photographs.