It's hard to believe how quickly November has flown by! Only three school days until the Thanksgiving break.

The grades on last week's Capitalization & Punctuation Test were quite good! Thank you for all of the support you showed--many of the students reported the help they received from you in studying for that exam.
We are now starting a "suspense" unit in both Reading and Language Arts. Students have begun to read the novel The House on Hackman's Hill. This will include silent & oral reading, discussion of the plot as well as the elements involved in this literature, and worksheet assignments. Please help your student stay on top of these assignments. In Language Arts we will begin writing suspense stories. This will involve the writing process by first doing a "pre-write", then a "sloppy copy", next a "rough draft", and finally the "graded copy". You can help out by asking to look over your student's work each day. You will also be involved in the editing and revising steps along the way, so please be prepared for that. The "graded copy" will be due right before the Winter Break and this project will be worth 100 points.

In Science we are continuing on the Mixtures & Solutions unit with many labs and entries in the Science Notebooks. It would help if you could ask your student to look over what he/she has done in class and offered suggestions & revisions for the entries in the Science Notebook. Not a lot of homework in this class.

In Art Exploratory we have just finished up the "Coat of Arms" project. (This was due Friday, November 20th.) Next we will begin the Art Portfolio, then several in class activities such as the "Tempera Value", "Watercolor Intensity", and Color Wheel project.

For the seventh graders, we will continue on Math work that supports what they are learning in their 1st period Math class. Rarely is there homework in this class.

Remember that Wednesday is an early release day and that there is no school on Thursday or Friday of this week. Enjoy the Thanksgiving break and have a safe holiday week-end.