Manoa Mountains News for October 25, 2007

The Manoa Mountains are busy preparing their book report speeches and visual aids for presentation on Monday, October 19, at 10:00 AM. Parents may park in the Wilcox Circle when they come for the presentations. We are looking forward to some very creative speeches and visual aids.

The Spooktivity celebration on October 31 will  begin at 12:30 PM with everyone changing into their Halloween costumes after lunch. We will have a parade around the high school campus and will return to our campus for a concert by the MPI band. The Holomua students will perform a skit and then the trick-or-treating will begin. Students will visit various stations to pick up their treats. Then we will return to our classrooms. If you would like to take your child home after the program, please check out with me first.

On November 2, all of the 3/4 multiage classes will be going to Foster Garden for a tour and drawing exercise to capture their images of the most exotic plant in the gardens. It blooms at the end of its life cycle and then dies.  We are fortunate to be able to see this flower. We will be leaving school at 9:00 AM and returning at 11:00 AM.

On November 5, we will be going to  to the Manoa Heritage Center from 8:45 to 10:15 AM to learn about Manoa Valley and its historical significance. We will also learn a little bit about Manoa Stream. We will visit a heiau on the property and learn some stories about Manoa.

On November 6, we will trace the path of Manoa Stream beginning at Lyon Arboretum, stopping at Manoa School, Kaimuki High School, and McCully Bridge, and ending at Magic Island, where it empties into the Pacific Ocean. We will be looking at the natural features of the stream and how human impact has affected it. We will begin our tour at 8:00 AM and end at 9:30 AM.

The third graders are taking their Unit 2 papers home this week. There is no signature required. Please keep the papers at home and ask your child if you have any questions about the work. I checked their corrections many times so the work should now be all correct.

Writer's Workshop has been full of activity as the Manoa Mountains created stories and poems with Halloween themes. They tried to use rich imagery and descriptions to make their work clear and interesting. They will be sharing their best stories next week in class.

Reading Logs are still very well done. The Manoa Mountains are doing a good job on their summaries and response choices. There are a few students who need to complete all the response choices before repeating any.

Next week it will be our turn to take care of the recyclables in the recycling bins on campus. We will work in teams every day to do this job.

Everyone wrote a card of thanks to Mrs. Lyn Ford, who came to tell stories last week. She is a master storyteller from Ohio. I'm sure she will enjoy the children's cards.

Posted on October 25, 2007 6:26 AM | Permalink