The Great Suitcase Race is coming to Room 19!

 

Room 19 will celebrate Halloween this year with a Suitcase Race, an extra snack, a movie, and a rocket launch!  The Suitcase Race is a relay race where teams have to put on all of the clothing in a suitcase and run with the case to their partners at the other end of the line.  They then take off the clothes and have their partner put them on, who then runs back to the first side.  It goes back and forth until everyone in the team has “dressed up” and run in the suitcase clothing.

 

To celebrate, we would love it if kids could do the following:

 

1.      Send in an article of clothing from home for the race.  It should be quite big (adult size might be good), and you should know that it could possibly be ripped during the race.  No hats, shoes, or underwear but anything else is fine-- shorts, skirts, dresses, shirts, gloves, scarves, etc. 

 

Please send clothes by Tuesday, 10/29/13

 

2.    We need two suitcases on or before 10/30/13, if that’s possible for someone to send in or drop off.  Please email me or call if you can send one in: hwood@bpsk12.org

 

3.    On 10/31/13, kids should bring in their own, extra snack to have during our party.  We can’t have anyone bring in food for the whole class.

 

Homework Clarification

I wanted to clarify the weekly writing assignment that has been coming home. 

Our grammar book goes home on Monday; vocab on Tuesday.  Both books are due on Friday.  Both books have in them a writing assignment.  Rather than doing both writing assignments, I have combined them into one writing piece, due on Friday.  It works on the skill we are practicing in grammar, using the words we are learning in vocab. 

The idea is that they practice the grammar skill and work with the words all week in their books, then complete the writing piece later in the week.  We talked about this in class, but I don’t think they are always remembering, or passing it on!  From here on out, I will send the writing piece home on Tuesday, when they get their vocab words. 

I would still recommend doing some of the grammar and vocab before writing, but I don’t want to wait longer to send the assignment home as some children need the extra time to write.

Also, I am going to start giving the kids a quiz on their vocab words each week.  I sent home blank templates for flash cards for the vocab words.  We’ve talked in class about using them to study.  I am not checking them or collecting them, but encourage kids to use them during the week.