Students are putting together Journal Entries as though they
are people immigrating with their families, from another country. This is a
great creative writing experience, while linking historical facts from their
country of “origin”.
The girls are enjoying the novel, Letters from Rifka,
by Karen Hesse. This is an historical
fiction novel about a young girl traveling from a Jewish community in the
Ukraine to Ellis Island.
We have completed Unit 7 in mathematics and will be
reviewing fractions and decimals this week and have the assessment on Thursday.
Unit 8 will focus on perimeter, area and scale drawings.
Please send a digital family picture to me. It does not have
to be current. We are working on a digital photo project for technology.
