Happy Monday. Welcome back after a three day weekend. Congratulations to everyone for successful conferences. Mrs. Chang and I really enjoyed speaking with each family about the incredible things that are going on in our room. I hope that you are all proud of yourselves, because you should be! I know that I am! Today we had a wonderful discussion about the history of Veteran's Day and what makes a person a veteran. The kids wrote incredibly touching pieces about veterans as heroes. I will post each story tomorrow (I forgot them at school this afternoon--sorry!). Tomorrow we will also be having our Veteran's Day assembly at 9:15 in the cafeteria. We will be listening to the stories of two local veterans. Each grade has created special artwork or writing to share during the assembly. I will be selecting three-five students to share their veteran's essays. I typed them all up, and put them into a short book. Each adult who attends our assembly will get a copy of YOUR work to read and cherish.
I introduced our new book club books for the next four weeks. Our genre is contemporary fiction. Each book was written by one of my favorite authors, Jerry Spinelli. The books were chosen because they all center around the theme of friendship, and differences. The three book club options are: STARGIRL, LOSER and EGGS. We will be starting our official book club meetings next week on Tuesday.
We will beginning a short unit on Greek and Latin roots. After today's review assessment on roots, we learned that we need to review Greek and Latin roots. I am excited to do some fun, hands on activities that will help reinforce these skills.
Tonight, enjoy a night off from homework (unless you have math from today to finish). You have worked so hard on book projects, packets and social studies reports. Tonight is your night to enjoy!
Come check out our colonies projects that are hanging on the railing outside of our room. I am so impressed with the quality effort that went into each poster. WOW.
Have a great night. Remember, if you ever have anything to blog about send it to my home email: joanna.etshokin@gmail.com and I will post it for you.
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hey mrs.e thnkas for another wonderful day. It was fun learning about Veterans day and how they got that day. I hope everyone else enojoyied there day!
I wish I could've gone to school, but I was sick :(
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