Week of November 12

Hey all,

We have a lot on the docket. Keep helping your students with reading and I will see you for conferences.

Dinosaur Projects
We will be having our museum display and oral presentations on Wednesday, November 19 in the morning time. Students should have their entire projects done at that time. It will be helpful if some are done before that. This week students will be working consistently on their projects to create a display piece to explain their projects. Many of the students have already created a fabric dino and a clay specimen. This will be helpful to their displays. Some students are wanting to do a diarama and this will include some work at home. If you can help your students bring in supplies for the diarama that will be helpful.

Students will also be doing an oral presentation of their projects on the 19th. Be working with your students to help them practice their presentation. Students will self assess themselves on the following areas.

I was loud enough so that everyone could hear me.
I talked about my project and gave information about my dinosaur.
I looked at my audience and displayed my project well.
I answered questions about my dinosaur.

Oral presentations will be limited to 3 minutes.

Conferences
I have posted a conference sign up sheet. I am limited in the amount of time I have available which is why I will be holding most of my conferences on Monday, November 24. This is the first day of Thanksgiving break. Please try to accomodate my needs for this. I appreciate your assistance. Our main goal during the conference will be to set goals for a learning plan and create a goal for the Elective Block. We will also be discussing your child's experience in our community and look forward to the rest of the year. Remember these are parent-teacher-student conferences. Sign up by Friday for conferences. Thank you.

Performance Groups
We will be setting up our groups for Performance Night on December 12th. I will be accomodating all the Ks to work on a musical performance. I would love some assistance with costumes for the event. We will be working on many of the songs we have learned in Music with Heidi. First and Second graders will be given a choice of three other groups run by Whitney, Beth and Brian. Please remember to mark your calendars for the event. It is a lot of fun.

Intensives
The week before Winter Break is dedicated to Intensives. These are held from Monday to Thursday from 9-12. If any of you have something that you would like to teach then please let me know. The groups are small because of parent involvement and we encourage you to make time to participate in this unique part of Trillium. This year the whole school will be partipating which means there are a lot more teaching options since the older kids will be involved. I will be once again doing my "The Math of Bowling" class. I love this week!

Thank you to all the parent volunteers. It is awesome to have you in class on a consistent basis.