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January 10, 2005
Cobras Care Challenge
Posting this early in the day so that I can head off to the basketball game at Goldsboro this afternoon and take some pictures. I did want to make a special thank you to Daniel R., Jessica P., Andre Anna H., Andrew C., and Ashley M. for bringing in tissue. These boxes will carry us through a couple of weeks. I did give them a “Done Good” coupon to use as they saw fit. If you can help make sure the kids have tissue this spring, please do.
Mrs. Williams, Mr. Barnes and myself are heading up a “Cobras Care Challenge” to benefit the American Red Cross in their Disaster Relief Efforts. We will be collecting monetary contributions through the end of next week. Our Challenge is for every team at NMS to bring in at least $50 and hopefully over $100 for the victims of this disaster. Our school wide goal is to raise at least $2,000 and to reinforce those values of giving that the parents have instilled in their children. So many have been left without; we can do something to help. Jessica C. summed it up well this morning when she discussed how, “Sometimes we feel like we don’t have a whole lot, but these people don’t have anything now.”
We took a definition test in Language Arts today. We will take our eInstruction Test on Wednesday for the entire Vocabulary Unit. We got our AR Goals for this nine weeks last week. We have DEAR (Drop Everything and Read) everyday and the kids should be working on their reading at home. They record the “at- home” reading on their Reading Logs and a parent signs them to be turned in every Friday.
Social Studies saw more work on Map Skills. Longitude and Latitude sometimes give the kids a hard time. This website might be of some help at home when things get confused. We began the first of our Map Skills Booklet with North America. The rest of this week will be devoted to map skills as well as reading charts and graphs. We will begin our unit on Africa next week. Just a quick note: Channel One Logs are due every Friday.
Posted by hlperson at January 10, 2005 10:47 AM
Comments
My mom gave me money for the Corba Care thing but I forgot it at home on the table when my bus came early and I had to run outside to catch it. I will try to bring it Friday if I don't forget.
Posted by: Lance Sasser at January 13, 2005 01:08 PM
I feel good for giving money for what the diaster did. I don't really think it's enough to cover 1/8 of the damage but we gave what the genorous people hade to give.
Posted by: Kyle Powell at January 27, 2005 08:21 PM