news and notes 10/20/06

Parents: I'll be sending you an email of the conference schedule today.

Homework

Reading and Writing: 15 Minutes of each daily.

Writing notebooks will be collected on
Mondays for Table 5
Tuesdays for Table 1
Wednesdays for Table 2
Thursdays for Table 3
and Fridays for Table 4.

Bring your reading book Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.

Math:

5 minutes of math facts practice daily.
Estimation, due every Thursday.
Stumper (optional), due whenever you get unstumped.
Problem Solving, due every Monday.

for Monday, Tough Number Project and catch up.

Humanities:

Grammar: Part of speech, due Tuesday 10/24.

French:

Spanish: Study for test.

Science:

Tech:

Other: Scholastic Book Orders, due Monday 10/30.


Our last farm visit was to EcoVillage. It was fabulous trip, we corralled goats, picked herbs, planted artichokes and had long conversations with Baron and Shyamm, the owners and operators of the farm. The farm trips have been great, but since I've been out 3 days in the last 3 weeks on these trips, I think some of our routines have gone out of the window. We'll be working on getting those reestablished in the coming weeks.

This weekend's joke:
A police officer sees a man driving around with a pickup truck full of penguins. He pulls the guy over and says, "You can't drive around with penguins in this town! Take them to the zoo immediately."
The guy says okay, and drives away. The next day, the officer sees the guy still driving around with the truck full of penguins -- and they're all wearing sunglasses. He pulls the guy over and demands, "I thought I told you to take these penguins to the zoo yesterday?"
The guy replies, "I did. Today I'm taking them to the beach!"