Coupla Things v29 (4/17/16)

Post date: Apr 18, 2016 1:32:49 AM

Good Evening All.

This has been a great weekend for me and I hope for you as well. Hannah and I went to CalDay yesterday to see if UC Berkeley is a good fit for her. It was odd to be in the town in which I grew up, walking through a campus that was my childhood stomping ground, and doing it with my 18 year old daughter! Today has been a day of laziness, laundry, and finalizing (tax) forms.

Topics and Tasks from Last Week (parents, please ask your kid what they remember from some of the following):

  • creating electrical circuits and static charges

  • transcontinental railroad

  • ideas for supplemental chapter in a Steinbeck book

  • and, of course, the usual weekly vocabulary and current events

What's Next:

  • essay improvement sessions with writing coaches

  • cricuit simulations, home wiring project, and intro to electro-magnetism

  • expansion and economics

A Few Other Things

  1. Conferences: please take a look at this chart and see if there is a spot that fits for you

  2. Parent Meeting & Potluck: May 12 from 6:30 to 8ish

Calendar

April 27: K-5 Science Fair exhibits

April 30 (Saturday): Student to Student Conference

May 2 to 6: Spring Conferences

May 6: Middle School Dance

May 7: Spring Auction

May 12 (Thursday): Room 25 Parent Meeting

May 16 to 19: Standardized Testing

May 20: DCS to Maker Fair

May 27 (Friday): Staff Development Day

June 1 (Wednesday): Talent Show (before rafting departure)

June 1, 2, 3 (Wed-Fri) Rafting South Fork American (tentative but "probably" dates)

June 6-10: Chris doing Google training for Hawaii public school teachers

June 8: Science Fair (design challenges)

June 16: Last Day of School