ANGELVILLE NEWS

BON DIA

October 21, 2008

I hope all of the students enjoyed their 5 day mini-vacation last week. On Friday I enjoyed a trip to the pumpkin patch with my children and nephews. I love this time of year, the colors and smells of Fall.

This week we will continue working on our Maniac Magee book. As soon as we finish the book we will break into guided reading groups in the classroom during reading time. We will focus on different reading strategies to strengthen certain areas of reading.

This week in Religion we are talking about our Conscience and using our conscience to make moral decisions and follow God's teachings. We began writing stories where we used our conscience to make a good decision or helped someone else make a good decision.

This week we are also going to begin making paper mache Halloween masks. We will start the process today and hopefully finish by Friday. This process has multiple steps so may take some time. I've asked each student to think about how they visualize their Halloween mask to look. This shall be a fun exercise.

Yesterday, all of the students took Pre-math test for the next chapter. This gives me a good idea as to what strategies we need to hit hard in the chapter and which ones we can skim over.

We will continue to complete our Salmon posters in groups. Hoping to make some computer time so that the students can type our their reports and put together their posters. Each group needs one poster.

Enjoy your Fall Week!