October 10th-14th

Ahoy Parents,

     Can you believe that it's already Pirate Week for the Heroes?  This week most of our assignments will revolve around Christopher Columbus (since it's Columbus Day Monday) and then Pirates.  Your student will learn some kid friendly facts about pirates (including that there were female pirates!) and complete a Venn Diagram comparing Christopher Columbus and Pirates.  Be careful, there might be a homework assignment this week where they have to complete a Venn Diagram comparing you to a pirate (yikes!).  Your student will also be writing their own pirate stories.  It could be about their experiences as a pirate (fiction?) or it could be a story describing a true pirate event based on what we read in class.  The genre does not matter as much as the details and punctuation.
    In Math, we will be wrapping up our initial unit on geometry.  This past week we learned about parallelograms and angles.  Hopefully your student has told you all about right angles (or corner angles), acute angles, and obtuse angles.  We will be having an quick assessment on Thursday about measuring in cm, squares, and rectangles.
     Big news for Science...our baby caterpillars have entered their chrysalis's.  It seems like only yesterday they were babies and pretty soon they will be butterflies (probably in 7 days).  I'm sure your student will be telling you all about it this week.  While the caterpillar's are in their chrysalis we will be looking at the life cycle of the spider and frog as mentioned last week.  We will also be working on our own little Life-Cycle projects (coming home today in our Monday Folder).  Basically, all your student has to do is either put a baby picture and current picture of them (they can draw it if they like) for the first two parts and then draw what they think they will look like when they are adults and senior citizens for the last two parts.  There is also a writing component but it only involves three or four sentences about each phase.  We will work on this in class so all you have to do is send in the pictures.
     That concludes this weeks newsletter.  I know it was short but please be sure to read the important dates at the bottom.  This week is going to be very busy for your student and I want to make sure that we are all on the same page.  If you have any questions just email me at gharvey@wcpss.net

                                            Arg,

                                                      Captain Harvey    


*Our Field Trip is THIS WEDNESDAY (October 12th) to the NC Museum of Life and Science IN Durham.  All Chaperones should be contacted via email on Monday.  If you don't here from me then please contact me.
 *October 13th is the One Hunter Family Fall Picnic at 5:30pm.  It will be unforgettable (and there are some delicious samples of healthy snacks to eat)so please mark it down on your calendar! 
 *ITLaPD (International Talk Like a Pirate Day) will be celebrated on Friday, October 14th.       *Don't forget that all Parent Volunteer's should have renewed their volunteer registration by October 31st or you can't chaperon any field-trips.  Please go ahead an renew now!
*The Fall Conference sheet is going home today in your child's Monday Folder.  Please be sure to either sign up for a time or verify that your scheduled time works.