Room 20 Classroom Notes October 28-November 1

I hope you are all well! Students were given last Friday as their last day working on their "Create-A-State" maps. We still have several students who are not finished. They must come in early or stay late and come to homework club on Wednesday to finish these beautiful maps. I will email or call if you have not arranged with me for your child to finish up (you may choose before/after school at one half hour each- whatever time is best for you). Alternately, they can be taken home, but BE CAREFUL! Check in with your child to see what way they would like to finish it up. We continue creating our state flags and our digital travel brochures. We will continue working on a planet research project. Groups will be researching one of the eight planets in our solar system. We start Technology with Mr. Jamesbarry. We will be working on many exciting projects, including tie-ins to classroom curriculum. We also start a research/art project based on illuminated manuscript, origins of letters, and the evolution of a letter throughout history. We did not start this project last week due to working on maps. I still have stragglers for camp confirmation documentation. Please make sure you send it in signed. We have parent volunteers moving the ball forward with fundraising and other camp logistics and we need everyone to turn in all documents, such as camp confirmations. We finish up our personal narrative writing pieces and move into imaginative writing the first full week of November. This will be our second significant piece, aside from weekly essays. The weekly essays have been fun to read. We are such a diverse and interesting group! Thank you for supporting your child's role in the play with Michael. Conferences are coming quickly! I'm very excited to see you all!