Our next field trip is soon approaching! On November 21st we will go to the Gates Foundation Visitor Center and focus on the water exhibit and experience the foundation's global efforts to help all people live healthy, productive lives. Permission slips went home today but I may have missed a few students that didn't have their orange folders to place them in. Please let me know if you didn't receive one. We will be traveling by Metro and the cost is $2.50. This is a correction from the permission slip, I forgot to factor the cost for round-trip, although weather permitting, we may walk on-way. We will need five chaperones for this trip from about 10:30-2:00.
Spelling Words that focus on our water PBL words
Our condolences
We are saddened to hear that Mr. Elliott lost his father this morning. He received a call shortly before the school bell rang and some teachers gathered around to support him. He is in California with his family and we are sending loving thoughts from Queen Anne.
This is a poem we have been studying this past week that seems to resonate with the loss of a loved one.
maggie and milly and molly and may
maggie and millie and molly and may
went down to the beach (to play one day)
and maggie discovered a shell that sang
so sweetly she couldn’t remember her troubles, and
millie befriended a stranded star
whose rays five languid fingers were;
and molly was chased by a horrible thing
which raced sideways while blowing bubbles: and
may came home with a smooth round stone
as small as a world and as large as alone.
for whatever we lose (like a you or a me)
it’s always ourselves we find in the sea.
e.e. cummings
This is a poem we have been studying this past week that seems to resonate with the loss of a loved one.
maggie and milly and molly and may
maggie and millie and molly and may
went down to the beach (to play one day)
and maggie discovered a shell that sang
so sweetly she couldn’t remember her troubles, and
millie befriended a stranded star
whose rays five languid fingers were;
and molly was chased by a horrible thing
which raced sideways while blowing bubbles: and
may came home with a smooth round stone
as small as a world and as large as alone.
for whatever we lose (like a you or a me)
it’s always ourselves we find in the sea.
e.e. cummings