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Please Sign Up for Parent Conferences

We hope that everyone takes a moment to choose a conference time in the book in the office. We offer conferences as late as 7pm this Wednesday, and are willing to go later if needed. We are also willing to do phone conferences or open up alternative times to ensure that we get to see everyone. We are planning a special group activity at school if we get 100 percent participation. We hope to see your child with you and offer free childcare for siblings as well as free childcare before the meetings start after school.  Please let us know if you have any questions about conferences. Thanks so much for supporting our classroom!

November/December Activities

We are sorry for the delay in getting our November newsletter out to everyone.  Our class has been so hard at work on a variety of topics and our classroom veterans are becoming skilled at managing their time. Please read below for more information about the activities we are taking part in during the months of November and December. Candy Statistics Our class collected data on their Halloween candy haul and created bar graphs and pie charts with their results.  We also collected data and made a class wide graph. They will be presenting this project along with other written work during student-led conferences. Holiday Fundraising  Our Upper Elementary classrooms are participating in multiple fundraisers including, our Christmas Shop,  Candle-making , carline treats, as well as holiday craft projects led by parents.  We will also hold a raffle and silent auction and sell cookbooks further on in the year.  If you would like to help us out with fundraising with donations of tim

Wax Museum Coming Soon!

Wax Museum Coming Soon! This announcement was also sent via email and we ask you to check your inbox to ensure we have your email address in our system.  Ms. Kathy and I have been receiving error messages with some emails.  We will put all of our class announcements online at MECroom102.blogspot.com and will send them electronically in the future and we want to make sure everyone is up to date on the latest news in our classroom.   If you did not receive this in your email, please send us an email at  MECrooom102@gmail.com  so we can make sure you are accurately added to our list! Over the next few weeks, the upper elementary will be researching ancient civilizations will create a living wax museum on (12-14-17).  Students will have time to work on this project in class, and will also have the opportunity to go to the library to find quality sources. Students will need 3-5 scholarly resources, two of which must be books.   We are planning to visit the library in small gro