Getting Excited

Thanksgiving is nearly at hand, and the students are getting excited about an upcoming break. The teachers is too, actually....

We're making good progress on all the usual areas. I switched the usual order of stories in the Open Court reader to put a particularly short one for this week. It's called "Ice Cream Cones: A New Scoop" and there's so little to talk about there I won't even bother with the quiz. We're spending more time in writing, and students are getting caught up with the compositions. They still have a way to go to write complex and interesting stories, but at least they are aware of the writing process and its elements. It's a great start for the year.

Next week we will have a field trip to Cold Creek. Parents are welcome to come. The cost of the trip is 5 dollars for adults and children alike. They will be taking permission slips home on Wednesday. These are due no later than Wednesday.

On a sad note, we said goodbye to Taylar today. She will be returning to Texas for a couple months. We hope that she will be able to rejoin us in February when the family hopes to move back to Los Angeles.

Home Studies: (1) Copy and answer questions in Science, page A 87. (2) Do "Subtracting Decimals," Math, page 387, numbers 2-31. (3) Do "Practice Adding and Subtracting Decimals," page 390, numbers 6-40.