Sunday, November 29, 2009

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Peregrine Press
November 30-December 4

Schedule
Monday: Art
Tuesday: Out and About to new School Garden to help move leaves and prepare the soil for winter
Wednesday: Art and PE
Thursday: Music
Friday: Fitness Friday/Running Club

Last Week
With only having a 2 day week we mostly spent our time wrapping up projects that needed to be completed. Students finished their Outdoor School Persuasive Essays and their Outdoor School Probe Posters. Tuesday the students presented their project on the Tillamook Indians to the Friends of Historic Forest Grove. The audience was small, but they were very impressed with the work the class did, and so was I! The project really came together nicely! I introduce the Independent Project to the class and each student worked on a proposal for what they would like to do for the project. Some students were stumped so they needed the weekend to think about it. They need to return their proposals to me Monday (tomorrow) morning because we start researching right away!

This Week
From here until Winter Break we will be spending the majority of our time working on the Independent Projects. Hopefully you all got the letter I sent home last Monday explaining the project and all the deadlines. the deadlines are incredibly important because we dont' have very much time for this project and they need to be done before we leave for Winter Break. We will have three days this week to research in the computer lab so if you child is not able to get their research done in that time they will have to continue to do research at home. Out Out and About on Tuesday will require some good workers so please be sure that your child dresses for doing outdoor work! We have a chance to help get our garden ready for the spring and we can't wait to get started!

*You should be getting a progress report in the mail late this week or early next week that will update you on the progress your child is making so far this semester. After you have received them, please feel free to email me if you have any questions.

Important Dates:
Saturday December 5th: Light Parade DownTown Forest Grove
Thursday December 10th: Celebrations of Learning and Night of Traditions at FGCS
Friday December 11th: All School Meeting 9:15 at the Grove Room at Central School (Our class will perform the play we have been working on so you are welcome to come and watch.)
Friday December 18th: Last Day of School before Winter Break

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