Peregrine Press
November 2-5
Schedule:
Monday: Art
Tuesday: Out and About to B Street Farm
Wednesday: Music; Art and PE!
Thursday: Buddy Reading
Friday: Music; Fitness Friday
*Please have your child bring in any food containers/labels for example: cereal boxes, pasta sauce, bread etc. without the food in them because in a few weeks we will be doing some nutrition studies that will require the use of food labels. This is different from box tops, in this case we need the whole container.
Last Week
Last week was a bit crazy! Our Out and About to the Historical Society was very interesting and filled with excitement riding the Max and being in downtown Portland. I was very impressed with how well all of the students behaved and how much they all learned! It was a great wrap up for the Lewis and Clark Unit, and build up for the Native American project we are currently working on. In Literacy Circles groups worked hard on their packet activities and comprehension. The Tillamook Project was much more successful than the previous week and students really started to find some great information on their topics. We had Fitness Friday on Thursday, inside due to the cold and rainy weather and I was pleased with how they did for the first time doing it this way. They jogged in place in between the 6 different stations of exercises so they all go their heart rate up and worked some muscles.
This Week
This week we will continue our work on the Tillamook Project and the groups wills start compiling their research into the form of a pamphlet. Our Literacy Circles will continue, and last week most groups assigned reading homework for the weekend so please remind them to bring their literacy books to school on Monday. The other main project will be the play we are working on called "This Land is Whose Land?" We are trying to figure out when we will perform this so to help me out, let me know if you could attend a day performance. Most students have equal parts and many will perform with their scripts because we don't have enough time to really memorize everything, but I know many students are very excited to perform this for an audience. We are tentatively planning for the first week of December. It would be fun to do an evening performance but then I know not all students would be able to be there so I don't want to impose that on anyone. (It is only a 15-20 minute play.)
We will have music twice this week to make up for the missed Fridays we have had recently. Our Out and About Tuesday will be to B Street Farm to do some more work there and some teambuilding in preparation for Outdoor School.
Outdoor School Update
Outdoor School: November 10-13,
Please come to the gear and medication drop off on Monday November 9th so we can get as much of the stuff ready before we leave on Tuesday. We will open our classrooms up from 6:00-7:00 pm Monday night for that purpose.
**We will leave the school by 9:15 on November 10th so please drop your children off at 8:30. We will return on Friday by normal dismissal time of 1:05. We actually hope to be back by 12:45 so you could come a little earlier that day for pick up and maybe miss the rush!
*No School November 25th
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