Room 26 Weekly News
December 11-15, 2017
Announcements
I hope you, your family, and friends have remained safe during this week's fires!
Thank you SO much to everyone who donated cookies to the teachers and staff last week! What a wonderful, delicious treat. I know everyone at LCM appreciated it! I fell so fortunate to be a part of this wonderful school community!!
If you are looking for a meaningful way to help others this holiday season, I encourage you to visit the "Giving Tree" in the LCM office. We have several LCM families in need this year. If you feel moved to help, please consider taking a "tag" off the tree and purchase a gift to help those in our school community who are struggling this year.
Announcements for this week:
Due to the missed day of school on Friday, students will be making up their States and Capitals test tomorrow (Monday, December 11, 2017)
District vision and hearing screenings will be held at school on Tuesday, December 12, 2017.
This Friday, December 15, 2017, will be Pajama Day at school. Your child is welcome to wear pj's to school, but must wear regular shoes. :-)
This Friday, the students will be making a special gift for you. I am hoping 2-3 of you might be willing to come in and help out with this activity (I know it may spoil the surprise of the gift for you, but it would be a big help!) Please let me know if you are available to help out on Friday afternoon from 1:35-3:00 or so. No experience is necessary!
Academic Updates
Math
Language Arts
Science
We are in the middle of our Solar System unit. We did a fun experiment last week where we went outside every hour and measured shadows. We made a chart showing the length and angle of the shadow every hour. We then used that data to create a graph where we discovered the daily patterns shadows make. We also plotted our data using protractors to discover that the earth moves 15 degrees every hour, which helped us to understand how sundials work.
As a reminder, your student's Solar System report and alien project are due on Monday, December 18, 2017. I hope they have shown you the directions for the project (on light green paper). It lays out, step by step, the requirements for each part of the report and project.
Social Studies
Specials
Monday: P.E. and Art
Tuesday: Vision and Hearing Screenings
Wednesday: P.E.
Thursday: Music and Library
Friday: Flag Salute (8:45) and Pajama Day