Red Ribbon Week

Today I had a chance to see most parents for the Back-to-School Breakfast activity. If you were not there, feel free to stop by the room whenever you can to sign up for parent conferences in December. I will, of course, send reminder notes right before conference week begins.

This was the second day of Red Ribbon Week. We will be focusing all this week on the dangers of drug use. Today we focused on the dangers of misusing and abusing prescription and over-the-counter drugs. We made some posters about this, and you can see a couple of them above.

Other than that, just a bit of this and a bit of that today. We corrected some homework, practiced our Native Californian songs, read a chapter of Island of the Blue Dolphins, and started compiling our reading journals.

Homework: (1) Do the final draft of the fantasy story. (2) Do the proper and common nouns worksheets. This is preparation for the "Writing Skills" section of the Open Court Test. (3) Do "Elapsed Time," Math, pages 121-123, numbers 2-33.

Also, finish the drug poster if not already done and turned in.