Happy Thanksgiving!!!
Field trip:
We have scheduled our trip with the Cerrito Creek class to the Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito and Rodeo Beach for Monday, December 5 from 8:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. We will take a class and tour, then lunch and do a beach clean up and hike.
Please download and sign the permission slip (which you can download here) and return it as soon as possible. We need drivers! Please let us know if you can drive and chaperone that day.
Reminders:
- No school or child care Wednesday, Nov. 23 through Friday, Nov. 25 for the Thanksgiving holiday
- Save the date for the Winter Holiday Concert our class will be performing in on Wednesday, December 14, 6:00-8:00 pm at the Northbrae Community Church.
Gratitude:
This morning students created Gratitude Journals in morning circle, and started writing things they are grateful for. We will be coming back to these periodically through out the year. Research shows that kids who routinely reflect on people and things they are grateful for are happier than those who don't.
In the afternoon, we continued the theme of gratitude by making garlands with paper leaves on which children wrote the names of people, pets, and things they are glad for in their lives. Hopefully some of these garlands will find their way to your holiday tables this week!
Academically, students in fourth grade math continued work on graphing data (in the purple group based on their surveys of students at our school) and interpreting graphs. Fifth grade mathematicians have been working on three-dimensional geometry. Writers continued editing drafts of their Fort Ross historical fiction on the computers, and we are almost done with the book Island of the Blue Dolphins.
We finished the day by celebrating Gwen's birthday with cupcakes!
Best wishes to all of you for a very meaningful and restful holiday with family and friends.
