Hello, Parents and Students!
You've had the afternoon off, and I hope you're having fun! This morning, Canterbury Faire was GREAT! Thanks to you, students, for your help making this such a fun activity for our younger students. I hope you had fun doing it! Thank you, too, to Mrs. Ratcliff and ALL our parents who made such a fun day possible.
This coming week will be the last week of the first quarter of school. You've learned so much--just think back to that first day of school, and all the things you know NOW that you didn't know then! You will have read two great novels, The Secret Garden and King of the Wind. You have learned and been able to apply the 5 Themes of Geography and the 9 Activities of Culture to real world history and to contemporary life. You have visited an Arabian Horse farm, the Maya exhibit at the Mayborn Museum, and learned how the Czech culture has influenced our area of Texas. You have learned to spell and locate all 50 of the United States! You can differentiate between action, helping, and linking verbs! You prepared beautiful book report projects, and have written poetry with illustrations. WOW!!! That's pretty impressive, and doesn't even include all you've learned in Science, Math, Music, Latin, Spanish, Art, and PE! The rest of this year will be exciting as you build on the amazing foundation you have laid during this first nine weeks. Congratulations!
This week, you will finish reading The Secret Garden. Your last assignments are below. We will end our study of this novel with our English Tea Party this Wednesday morning, October 24. Please drop off your food at the Parish Hall kitchen on your way to Chapel on Wednesday morning. I'll take it from there! We'll begin the festivities just after Chapel is over.
Your spelling list was given to you last week for our test this Monday, October 22. I've reprinted the words and maps below.
READING ASSIGNMENTS for Week of October 22-26:
For Monday: Read Chapters 24-26.
For Tuesday: Read Chapter 27, and pages 3-7 in the back of your book, Meet Francis Hodgson Burnett.
The remainder of the week, you can read a book of your choice for your 30 minutes of reading each night. Remember! You can always use your class novel reading time on your reading log so long as you have read at home. Reading Logs will be due on Friday, October 26.
SPELLING/MAP TEST for Monday, October 22
1. Pacific Coast States Region
2. California
3. Oregon
4. Washington
5. CANADA
6. PACIFIC OCEAN
7. MEXICO
8. Noncontiguous States--noncontiguous means "not touching." These two states do not touch the contiguous United States. Alaska touches CANADA, and Hawaii touches just the PACIFIC OCEAN.
9. Hawaii
10. Alaska
