I have JUST enough drivers now. I wouldn't mind one more, just in case.

As much as I'd like to, I can't post the book project directions on the web site. They are copyrighted material. They are posted in the classroom all trimester. Students are supposed to copy their own project directions the day they sign up for them and put them in the reading section of their 3-ring binder. (They amount to a sentence or two, usually. It's not too much to ask kids to copy.)

The district email is still glitchy. You can reach me through my home email. :)

We've switched our time for going to Annie to the afternoon show on November 21. We will eat lunch in the classroom. Don't worry--kids who buy hot lunch will still be able to go to the lunchroom and pick up their lunch and bring it to the room. Then we will drive to the community auditorium by the pool for the show. We are using parent drivers. So far I have three parent drivers who have paid, and one more who told me she plans to come. That means so far I can carry 14 students (and maybe 19). I have 27 students and me. Three or four students won't need a ride. So I'm planning on needing seats for 25. Obviously, I still need drivers!

We have a Veteran's Day assembly at 9:30 on Nov. 8. You are all invited to attend. The posters that students in the school made about veterans and relatives in the service are on display in the hall by the office. They look great. 

The second round of book project presentations start tomorrow. Now that we've done book projects once before, I expect the students will be better prepared this time. We will start with volunteers, then go to application level projects, then analysis, evaluation, and synthesis. 

Presentations of the last big reading projects for the trimester start on Nov. 18. The vets present first. Students will use a Power Point presentation to give an oral book report comparing an independent reading book with one of their genre reading books. They can choose to compare plot and setting OR they can choose to compare character and theme. There are templates of both kinds of Power Points in the Kragen classroom folder at school. The templates are also both posted in the Elementary Materials page on this site, along with the rubric for the Power Point presentation.