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Peregrine Press

February 16-20

 

Schedule

Monday:  Running Club

Tuesday:  Afternoon Out and About: Restaurant Tour (World Fair Foods)

Wednesday: PE

Thursday:  Art

Friday:  Rough Draft of the Treasure Book is Due; Beth's Last DayL

          

 

Last Week:

Boy is it intense to have two major projects going on at one time!  The students have been working diligently on their treasure books, making sure that their rough draft is a significant improvement from their sloppy copy.

For the World Fair geography unit the students learned more about the five themes and practiced applying some of those themes to station activities.  The stations included note-taking and citing sources, understanding place (human and physical characteristics), hemispheres and latitude and longitude.  I was very pleased with how well they did on these stations for the first two rounds, but by the afternoon when they did the last two rounds they got pretty off task.  Many students did the work accurately but it was sloppy and there were several spelling and capitalization mistakes.  It is really important that they get used to spelling words correctly as often as possible and even if it isn't a "writing" focused activity they need to use conventions properly.  As a consequence for sloppiness they all had to take home an activity on Thursday that was simply a rote, practice of capitalizing proper nouns and spelling.

 

This Week:

Monday I will be sending home an envelope that has information about purchasing the treasure books.  Every student will get a treasure book for free, but if you would like multiple copies (they make great gifts) you can order more.  Please fill out the information on the order card if you want more than just the one free copy.  Also, I want to make it clear to parents and students that if they do not turn their rough draft in on time (February 20^th) they will not be able to make the final draft that will get published.  All of these books are beautiful and the students should be very proud of them, and turn them in on time!

They will have time on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday to finish these rough drafts.  Many students have been out sick lately, but I still need them to meet the deadline.  If they do not have the rough draft paper at home let me know and I can get it to them.  (Please email me if you have concerns about not being able to meet the deadline.)

 

The students will continue to work on the World Fair Projects by researching and typing the information they will put on their tri-fold posters.  The groups doing the video projects will start filming but they have to have their script ready in order to film.  I can still use some parent helpers with filming this week.  It looks like Wednesday and Thursday morning we will have time to film, so please let me know if you can help supervise.

 

Upcoming Dates:

Treasure Book Final Draft Due March 6^th

"World Fair" March 6^th

The World Fair Presentations will be open to parents, community members and the rest of the school on March 6^th from 11:30-12:30.  The students are very excited to share the work they are doing, but I think they are more excited about making food to share.  (Yes, they can make homemade food to share at the fair!)  We will be sending out information to the whole school to inform parents of this.  They will do in class presentations earlier that same week and then they will get to check out the projects in Gretchen's and Charlie's classes too.  We understand that having the fair in the middle of the day will be challenging for parent to get to, but we felt that this was the best option for the type of event this will be.  Please try and find a way to attend.  The kids are very excited!