News and Homework 9/10/08

We had a very exciting and interesting field trip experience yesterday at the Deer Hills Ranch. The weather was cool and comfortable and the scenery was bucolic. The ranch had chickens, mules, peacocks, ducks and horses. Our outdoor educators organized our students into one large group for some team building activities and then into three groups for more challenging activities. Our students were thoroughly engaged. They learned that succeeding in these challenges required concentration, focus and good team work. The ropes challenges were especially challenging yet every child accomplished more than they ever imagined possible. No one was pushed to do anything he/she did not want to do. Every child went away feeling they had achieved success on some challenge. We hope these lessons and good feelings will carry over for the rest of the year and beyond.

Homework :  Literature – All worksheets from Prologue and chapters 1,2 are due by Friday. 

                       Math- workbook pages 18. 19 (finish textbook page 20 if you haven’t done it in class) due tomorrow.