Holiday Vocabulary

Today, students took a cold test on 10 holiday words.  These words are a representative sample of words from three December holidays.

The word list/assignment sheet is here.  Students will take a final quiz on these words next Friday!

-Mrs. Perrien

Vacation "home" for the holiday

Parents-

Three of our classroom pets need a holiday vacation "home away from home."  We have a tank a hermit crabs, Spotz-the Leopard Gecko, and one hissing cockroach that all need a home for our vacation.  They are very easy to take care of from day-to-day.

If you are not traveling during the holidays (for more than a day) and would like to babysit a pet please email me at croelperriena@westottawa.net.

Thanks!

--Mrs. Perrien

Resthaven Pictures

Soldier's Care Package

This is our classroom's holiday project!  Rather than doing a classroom gift exchange, the Upper Montessori students adopt a charity or organization to help over the holiday season.  In the past we've collected food and toys for the Humane Society and collected children's books for DeVos Children's Hospital.  This year we are collecting care package items to send to a soldier in the Middle East.

Since we are sending items through the mail overseas there are item restrictions.  See the following website for care package ideas:  http://adoptaplatoon.org/site/.  Once you get to this page click on the words, "Care Package Ideas," under Helpful Info.  This open up a pdf document with lots of shopping ideas.  If you're able to help, please consider sending in an item or two for the care package. 

Friday is our deadline!  We want to get the package in the mail in time for Christmas.  Let's show our soldiers thanks and support and help brighten their Christmas!

-Mrs. Perrien

Tall Tales Homework

This assignment will be due next Wednesday, December 14.  I think the kids will have fun researching tall tales!  There are some great stories out on the web.

Tall Tales Homework Assignment

Reader's Workshop Update

Visit my reader's workshop blog to check out my comments about genre studies.  I will be sending home the ThinkQuest assignment by Wednesday this week.

-Mrs. Perrien

Greek Tortoise Assignment

We were thinking of getting a tortoise for our new class pet. To do so, all students will have to research over the weekend and find a fact about the Greek tortoise and how to take care of it.

This will help our class zoologists realize and learn how to take care of our special new pet.

After the student finds their fact, they must post the fact on the blog. It must be posted by Tuesday December 6^th by morning.

You only need one fact on how to keep or take care of our pet.

It will be a special opportunity to watch this pet grow and live!

But to earn this pet we must all participate in our fact finding project!

By; Erin and Natalie