January

Welcome back! I hope everyone had a wonderful vacation!

Eighth graders are completing research reports about presidential candidates. The answers to the questions on your worksheets are due on Monday 1/14. We will be working on the rough drafts of your reports next week. Please be sure to follow the 2008 presidential campaign at home by watching the national news on television, listening to NPR, or reading the newspaper regularly. Some helpful websites include:
CNN
USA Today
The New York Times
Time Magazine
VoteSmart.org

Sixth and seventh graders are busy preparing for the It's All About Words Pentathlon. They need to have memorized their first poem by Friday 1/11 and also need to study the first column of commonly misspelled words and pp.25-26 of commonly misused words in their pentathlon packets.