Dear Families,

We’re now into the second month of school and the students are more acclimated to the routines and subjects we’re studying. Everyone is trying hard to make the class work as smoothly as possible and I appreciate that very much! Thank you to parent helpers, Lisa, Dana, and Kathy, and to all the UO practicum students who love working with your student.

Topics:

• Student picture day will be this Thursday, Oct. 11th @ 11:45. Please return your order form this week and definitely before the 11th. There are additional forms in the office.

• Parent/Teacher conference forms will be sent out to you on Monday. The dates for conferences are Thurs. 11/1 and Friday 11/2. For those parents who have siblings at the school, conferences will be held  back to back as much as possible. If you need a translator let us know. More information is found on the form.

• There is no school on Friday, Oct. 12th, due to a furlough day.

• Our subjects that we’re studying are writing about favorite foods, complete the reading of  Dear Mr. Henshaw practicing skills of connections, summarizing, formulating questions, and finding cause-effect ideas. In math learning about arrays and continue with the distributive law to help in multiplication. In science, we’ve surveyed and graphed water usage and made streams in our stream tables. Lastly in social studies, we’ve studied geography vocabulary, started working on National Geography Bee questions, and will start using latitude and longitude for locating places on maps.

• On our first field trip, we will visit the Maude Kerne Museum on Thursday, Oct. 25th, to see their amazing art display to celebrate Las Dias de los Muertos. We will walk to the museum after lunch for our scheduled tour at 12:40-1:25pm. Let me know if you would like to help chaperone.

Bonne semaine y buenas semanas,

Debra, Cassidy, and Yan Run