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This week in class…
We will be making hands out of colored paper this week for Kiwanis Kids to help with a project that the Circle K at UW is sponsoring. Steve Wagner, from the Laramie Kiwanis Club has asked for our help. Here is a description of the project:
Heidi L. Solomon, President of Circle K at the University of Wyoming states,
”The main idea of the project is to help remind Laramie of all the reasons it has to be thankful, allowing residents to share their thanks, and simultaneously raising money to help combat neonatal tetanus. To this end, we hope to sell colored paper hand cutouts for $1 a piece at local businesses and schools to be displayed on walls throughout the establishments. Once people donate, they will write down whatever they are thankful for on the hands to be displayed for all to see. We are calling this event the "November Hands of Thanks," and our hope is to cover all of Laramie's walls with thanks.”
I have asked each student to make 10 hands. Mr. Wagner will pick them up on Thursday, October 23rd.
Book It
I have only received reading logs from 5/9 students in class. I will be sending home a new reading log today and will send a new reading log each Wednesday. Even if your child has not read yet or logged any minutes, please log any minutes they read this week or next. I will be recording “all” the minutes your child reads over these next six months. Also, even if your child does not read 450 minutes for the month of October, they can read 450 minutes for November and get the free personal pan pizza. Any month that your child reads 450 minutes they will earn a personal pan pizza. I enter minutes from the reading logs on the day it is turned in. You should be able to track your child’s progress by going to www.pizzahut.com/bookit
Homework Corner
We have our Spelling Test this week on Thursday, October 16th. Other than reading for Book It, there shouldn’t be much homework. I was very proud of how well the students performed on their tests last week!
Novels for Reading Groups
All groups are off to a great start in their novels. We are learning about the significance of Ellis Island as an immigration processing center and what it was like to be an immigrant in The Orphan of Ellis Island. We are learning about the Dust Bowl and migrant workers in Blue Willow. And we are experiencing plot development and characterization in Frindle.
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