Hopefully everyone had a restful Veteran’s Day. Thank you to all who are currently serving or have served our country in the past!

This week in language arts we’ll be working on our reading projects as the end of the trimester is rapidly approaching! All students in Ms. Turrell’s language arts classes will have some type of project due Tuesday Nov 19th. They need to have their novels finished and be using the class time given, as well as time at home, to finish their projects. Given that they have a big project due soon, their HW this week will be to work on that project.

In social studies, we have just started our study of the wonderful ancient civilization of Mesopotamia. Did you know they invented the world’s FIRST flushing toilets? Pretty ingenious! Students will be working on text dependent questioning this week to help them with reading and writing skills they’ll need for next year’s Smarter Balanced Assessment (replacement of the OAKS). Students will have an end of tri “quiz” on the pieces of Mesopotamia we’ve studied so far next Wednesday.

Dates to keep an eye on:

Tuesday November 19th: Civil War Dance 2:30-4:00 ($3 if you dress up, $5 if you don’t)

Thursday November 21: Civil War Dress up Day & Assembly ALSO end of Tri 1!

Friday Nov 22 – Sunday Dec 1: Thanksgiving Break, No School!