Dear Parents,
It's Friday, and three of my boys were back in class today, but another four were out. it's rough on the children when they miss school. I do put all the printed assignments on their desks so that when they return they can do the work and turn it in. It's important for the children to complete all missed assignments from when they are absent.
Most of the children did a wonderful job working in the computer lab this morning. It was exciting for me to see how many were doing online research on their state and taking notes as I'd asked them to do. Some were carefully copying their state flag, or the state bird. Before we left for lunch I asked them what they had learned about their state from the online research, and it was interesting to hear the variety of information they had gathered.
Here is a list of students with their assigned state (The children are not allowed to change or switch states with someone else.):
Trenton: New Mexico
Lizbeth: Hawaii
David: Tennessee
Jasmine: Idaho
Cody: Illinois
Carlos:North Carolina
Kathie:Minnesota
Luca: Oregon
Heidy:Louisiana
Hunter: Michigan
Gavin: Kansas
Chris: Utah
Robert:Arkansas
Devin: South Carolina
Nick: Florida
Lars: South Dakota
Jenny: Maine
Vanesa:Indiana
Clair:New York
Angel: Delaware
R.J. (Rex):Alabama
Ananda:Nevada
Geneva: West Virginia
Donnie: Iowa
Taliha:Vermont
Luke:Pennsylvania
Jesse:New Jersey
Nicole: Massachusetts
Lindsey: Kentucky
This morning several students discovered that "their" state had the same state insect, butterfly, or bird as other states. I think it will be very interesting for the kids to find out so many interesting facts about the individual states in our country.
As I said the other day, the ABC State Report is the only project that should be worked on during the weekends, along with the daily half hour of reading for AR.
Enjoy the weekend!
Sincerely,
Ruth Landmann
The Santa Cruz Public Library is also a good resource. I picked up a few books about Idaho for Jasmine from the Branciforte branch. Now we can read about our potatoes and eat them to.
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