Break is so close we can all feel it! There are many things to cover this week, math test, history test, plenty of poetry, and onomatopoeia to go around....BUT we will finish off the week with report cards and BREAK! Report cards will start coming home on Wednesday. Thank you for returning the envelope signed.
Students should be working on their research papers that are due on April 12th. Break should be a break, and it would be a shame if poor time management has scholars working over break to finish their papers. They will have that last week when we return, but we will be starting a number of new units AND working on review packets for the NWEA. It would behoove students to be working this week.
Poetry packets will be due on Friday. They can be handed in completed on Thursday for those students who are going to be be absent on Friday due to vacations.
This week, Wednesday we will run the first round of the Scripps Spelling Bee in our classroom. Our winners will then have packets that they can take home and study over break to be a part of the school wide Bee when we return.
In science we have been studying microorganisms, and started growing some mold in our classroom last week. Today we had some significant growth. Tomorrow I will take some photos and post them. We are also growing bacteria in a carton of buttermilk that is sitting on our table. Hopefully it will not expand and explode at night when no one is in school and greet us with a terrible smell some morning! We will be disposing of it before break!
In history we have been studying the Latin American Revolution. We would love to celebrate the end of the unit with a Latin/Hispanic lunch on Friday. If your student wants to bring in some sort of Latin/Hispanic food to share remember to cancel your student's lunch. We will enjoy our lunch in our classroom and be cleaned up and ready to go by 1:00.
We will be working on a number of items this week to prepare for our few weeks left in the fourth quarter. Tomorrow we will be brainstorming and writing up ideas for games for the older kids, 4, 5, and 6 grade students for our field day. We will then present them to Coach to consider. We will also be working on preparing to write our moral codes during the fourth quarter. We actually have about 8 weeks left and students will be adding to their moral code and have eight standards that each of them develop for themselves. Once they are finished they will be putting them on presentation paper, and I will laminate them. They can hang them in their rooms for the summer, but we size them purposely to place inside their lockers in their new "home". Their own code is written in light of the 6 level learners that we have been talking about since the first day of school, and our foundation stones. Each one will be unique to each individual and what he/she finds to be important and mandatory in order to walk through the days of Jr. High and High School with high standards and living a life of no regrets. This last quarter always seems to be a very special time for our scholars. A time of reflection and growth will help these students to know what they believe, and be able to stand by their convictions. That is our goal at GFA; not simply that students obey and succeed while they are in our building, but that we can send them out and they will continue to do their best and live with integrity!
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