Now that we are back, here are some updates for this week:
This is a "normal" vocabulary week. Vocabulary sentences will be due on Tuesday; the 10-question vocabulary assignment on Edmodo and the grammar packet will be due on Thursday. Quizzes will be on Friday.
Please remember to return your signed report card envelope, if you have not done so already. We'll reuse these envelopes for second and third trimester report cards.
My math class will be taking the Chapter 3 test on Thursday. We'll be reviewing in class this week and students are encouraged to practice using Khan Academy.
Students with numbers 1-10 have their next reading response letters due on Friday.
Information should have come home last week about our Robert Crown- The Science Behind Drugs and Prevention program. The letter includes details on how you can follow up with your student at home using the resources from Robert Crown's website. We will complete the post-activities in class this week.
Here is a note from Mrs. Wasik regarding the upcoming cardboard challenge. Feel free to send in cardboard any time this week. Our class will be creating prototypes for solutions researched in our design engineering project connected to problems with Mars exploration.
Dear Parents,
Your child’s class will be participating in Dryden’s own version of the Global Cardboard Challenge in December, inspired by a 9 year old boy, who built an arcade entirely out of cardboard. This cardboard idea sparked a movement and the Imagination Foundation, whose mission is to foster creativity and entrepreneurship in children around the world.
Students will be working in small groups to design something out of cardboard. They may have some parameters with ideas as to what the “something” could be, but the idea of this project is to foster collaboration and creativity. Students will also be problem solving, reflecting, and giving/receiving feedback as they design. The culminating activity will be an hour in the morning or afternoon of sharing and play with other classrooms that participated as well.
The classroom is in need of cardboard- all shapes, sizes, and colors! Please DO NOT send in cardboard that contained food at any point for allergy purposes. Examples of some great boxes- shoe boxes, Amazon boxes, etc. Please send in boxes after Thanksgiving break. Many thanks in advance for your help!
We can’t wait to get creative!!
Mrs. Wasik
Here is a cute pic from Art Appreciation before Thanksgiving. Thank you to Mrs. Zei and Mrs. Wascher for the fun lesson on the Statue of Liberty and for letting the kids create their own living replica!!