Hello All,

I hope you all have enjoyed this 3-day weekend, and been able to commemorate the veterans in your life in your own way.  Because of the long weekend, we are sending home one Homework Packet for the next two weeks.  It has 2 Reading Logs, but only one spelling list to study.  We will not have a spelling test this Friday, and the packet is not due until the following Friday, November 22nd.

Thanks to all the parents who drove on our field trip last week to the Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History.  The kids had an excellent jump start to our study of the Ohlone people and culture.  We had fun and will continue learning about our community's Native Americans in class, and on our next field trip to the Aptos History Museum.

This week we will wrap up our math unit on multiplication, and then move into a chapter on Geometry and Measurement.  However, you will continue to see multiplication drill sheets, as well as Rhymes 'n Times handouts throughout the year.  In RTI, we will finish the story of Anthony Reynoso: Born to Rope,  and our study of the Questioning strategy and the Categorize/Classifying skill.

Finally, this is the beginning of the second trimester.  Report cards will go home in a week, on Tuesday 11/19.  I will be working on new AR goals based on the kids' most recent AR STAR as well, and will distribute them to the kids later this week.

Take care, and have a great week,
Carroll Mayer