Q2Week7

 Dear Parents,

Happy Thanksgiving!

Sorry for not updating the blog last week. Half weeks with half days are sometimes more rather than less hectic, and in the bustle of planning I forgot to post. It won't happen again.

A few updates going into the break:

1) Thanksgiving break is an R&R break. There will be no homework so feel free to let your students focus on food, fun, and family.

2) If your student has signed up for the Bard competition, all poems have been approved! You may help them as much as you are able to memorize and refine their poems!

3) Coming in December we will be putting on a Shakespeare festival on the 14th! It will take place in the middle of the day, and will specifically be open to grandparents, but parents are welcome as well!

In Class

1) In History we will be finishing up our African Kingdoms unit. There will be a unit test Friday the 4th covering African Geography, Egypt/Aksum/Kush, the Trans-Saharan Trade, Ghana, Mali, and Songhai. Your students will be bringing notes and study guides home so make sure they are studying!

2) In Reading we will be starting a new book, Tales of Shakespeare the book is a summary of several of Shakespeare's great plays. We will also be reading dialogue from the plays but that will be provided in class. The ISBN # for Tales of Shakespeare is 978-0-141-32168-4. The editors are Charles and Mary Lamp.

3) In Writing we will be continuing to learn how to summarize stories, drawing pictures of what happens first, next, and last and then translating those pictures into sentences.

Best,

Mr. Ohbayashi