Festivities!

Hi All,
Day of the Dead Community Service Opportunity
Please join the Day of the Dead Procession - SES 4:30 in the Auditorium.
Jan and I will be there to paint faces as skeletons then we will join the community procession that will go on a walk about and end up at the Holocene on 11th/belmont. There will be Aztec dancers and music along with other festivities.
This is an excellent way for your child and your family to be part of a community event, learn about other cultures and make new relationships. Please plan on attending with your child. If your child would like to attend but you cannot, find a friend they can go with. I will be there but am not prepared to take responsibility for the students unless you personally ask me to! This is a community sponsored event that we are supporting! I hope to see many of you there, especially the Spanish students!

Halloween - students may dress up! Please do not be so distracting that you cannot learn - ie, masks or huge costumes that make you uncomfortable. To go along with our scary story theme, we will have a small viewing of something like the Twilight Zone and some popcorn for about 1/2 hour tomorrow. I look forward to being creeped out with the students! It's a great way to build community...screaming! I'm kidding!

One more assignment that was assigned today was to create a Big Plant Page in our our Big Book of Secrets. Each student chose a plant to create a poster. The assignment is glued in their Ecore. It is Due Friday! We spent over an hour working on it today and they should research at least 1 topic per night and take notes to be able to create the final project.

Hope you are all well. Please try to reduce the amount of Candy students bring to school in the following days. This will not only help students focus, it will greatly improve MY quality of life! Thanks.
 We have a BIG field study to the Hopkins Tree Farm all day Thursday. Be sure students are fully prepared! Waterproof gear is a biggie and a big lunch. We will leave at 9am.