Red Ribbon Week Starts Tomorrow

Yes, tomorrow is the start of Red Ribbon Week. The theme is: "be RED-y to say "no" to drugs. Wear red. Free money to those that wear red. Also, students will be given pledge to read, write, and sign if they agree to be drug free as a "kickoff" to the week. Then on Thursday they will learn about the person who started Red Ribbon Week and hear his story. Pretty amazing. There is a list of dress up days on the side of the blog. Speaking of free money-students were able to buy a Capri Sun today for $400 of free money. We will have another technology day before the end of the quarter and then the rest of their money they will be able to buy from Mrs. Hankins' store or positive behavior coupons. Then when 2nd quarter starts, we start over with $100. Today we finished our regions of Montana and also a quick section on the extreme weather differences in Montana between the different regions. Ask them to tell you 3 different things they learned about these regions. If they can, write the 3 regions in the planner. Study those states & capitals for the Northeast region of the U.S. Tomorrow, we will finally get to get into our water cycle project and get it done. Then you will see a writing project come home with them tomorrow to go along with the water cycle. They will have to pretend they are a raindrop going through the water cycle. We will be doing it in segments-one each night and I will send a sample of mine segment by segment home each night as an example. These are going to be so fun & creative. You will be able to help your child if you wish to and I am going to ask your help with one thing on them and that is the editing portion on a nightly basis as it is almost impossible for me to edit that many each day and do a quality job of giving the students individual feedback on that. So more on this tomorrow as I send Part 1 home. Thank you-thank you for getting those Parent-Teacher Conference forms back. I have all, but 2 so for you 2, please return them on Wednesday. Once I have all of them, we as a staff sit down and schedule them. We will do our best to give you your 1st or 2nd choice. Library books tomorrow. Once again, I just have to say at how amazing this class is. They are a super bunch of kids and I am so proud of them and the character they display on a daily basis. We are able to accomplish so much in all our academic areas and we are all really learning TONS of new things. So thank you for your help & support as you help make this possible. Have a great night and once again get out and enjoy the beautiful weather.