We are close to wrapping up our first Socials unit of the year about ‘Our Global Community’.  We all learned a lot about the importance of human rights, the United Nations, & various humanitarian organizations.  The students also worked on their presentation skills when they worked in small groups to explore the rights of children in Lebanon, Ethiopia, & South Africa, as well as the work of several humanitarian organizations.  The highlight for me was when the class chose ‘World Vision’ as their organization to support this year.  In the next 2 weeks, we will be putting together a small group of students to organize in-school fundraisers and, as a class, we will decide specifically which World Vision projects to support.  Please remember to stop by our classroom and see our students’ art work where they illustrated one or more of the universal human rights.

On November 17th, Highroad will be hosting its annual Spell to Write and Read information seminar for parents.  If you have not attended before or if you feel like you need a refresher course on all those spelling rules and phonograms, please plan to attend.  More details to follow.

See you all on Thursday & Friday this week!  Don’t forget to pick up your $10 HRA t-shirt on Thursday for Color Day on Friday.

Mrs. Derksen