Friday, September 30, 2011

Sept 26th-30th

Have you heard about our author visit? Mike Lupica, spoke to JYJ 4th and 5th graders on Tues morning.  He writes books about sports that focus on the life lessons we learn from participating on a team. "Character matters every day" was a quote he shared with us. Watch a great author video at this link.          

Thanks so much for returning field trip forms and payment for our upcoming trip to the Poe Health Center. In this week's Wed. folders I hope you found picture day forms, opportunities to participate in the fight against juvenile diabetes and first quarter progress reports. Please sign and return the progress reports.

  Thursday I asked students to sign up for the materials needed to plan and create landform models next week.  Please check agendas for this information. I would also greatly appreciate if 2 to 3 parents could join us next Fri morning to assist with our creations! Looking right now like 8-9:30 would be our time frame.

We completed our focus on author's purpose and our math unit on place value this week.  Students also completed thank you notes to our guest speaker from last week.  They focused on capitalization, punctuation, using Peak vocabulary words, and the editing process. Next Wed. or Thurs. we will have a quiz on Peak Vocabulary Unit 2.

Hope everyone enjoys the long weekend and cooler temperatures.