Hi,
The Service Club has organized a school-wide project for MLK Day! The students in our school learned about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and then thought about their own dreams and ways that they can help the world. Each student traced their hand and wrote about their dream and/or ways that they can be of service on the hand. Tuesday afternoon at our FCE Service Club meeting, we will be hanging the hands in the entryway of the school. Come by and see our colorful dreams for the future!
There are several MLK Day of Service events happening around town this month (especially on Monday). Have fun checking them out.
http://www.unitedway-wc.org/VOLUNTEER/volunteer_mlk.html- volunteer opportunities for Jan. 16 around Williamson county.
http://www.mlkcelebration.com/
RRISD INVITED TO MLK CELEBRATION AT TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY – JoyLynn Occhiuzzi
Texas State University is hosting a Martin Luther King Celebration the evening of Tuesday, January 31, 2012 and has extended an invitation to all of our students and staff. The celebration will start at 5:15 p.m. in the lobby of the Avery Building with some Texas State gospel singers, a saxophonist, and a student re-enacting the “I Have a Dream” speech. Then at 6:30 p.m., Dr. Dwight Wright, Associate Professor of History from Texas State, will speak on “King, the Church, and Civil Rights.”
Reading: This week in reading we looked at drama and noticed the differences between the format of a play and a reader's theater with a piece of fiction or expository writing. We read some plays aloud and will be choosing some parts to practice and perform some quick plays for the class and our reading buddies.
Many of our students are working on book club books and we tried going onto our class moodle page and chatting about the books and the characters using our new netbooks. It was very fun and we learned appopriate and not as focused ways of chatting. We will be experimenting more with our class chat room soon.
Writing: We finished our adventure stories! Thank you for your assistance at home. The adventure personal narratives in one page turned out great! Come and look for them in the hallway! We will be working on more personal narratives as well as some more essays. Our first week of word study work at home went well. We will be continuing word study as part of our homework each evening. The directions for our word study homework is on the inside cover of their word study books.
Math: We took a math benchmark this week which was a little bit tricky for many of us. We will continue to work on fractions and decimals and continue to review multiplication and division using word problems. Be sure to continue to work on fact practice at home. Many students are depending on a multiplication chart rather than using strategies for their facts. Thank you for helping them to make their facts more automatic.
Science: We are finishing up soil and will be taking the test on properties of soil on Tuesday. Then we will work on changing earth (weathering and erosion).
Everyone has been doing a great job on their science project checkpoints so far. Keep working hard! The registration form for putting the project into the science fair is attached and is due on Friday. Checkpoint #3 is due on Tuesday.
I am attaching a flyer for a Healthy Plate Poster Contest from the PE coaches.
Have a great long weekend and let me know if you have any questions or concerns.
Sincerely,
Pam Bartholomew
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