Hello UE Families,
Thank you for your generous contributions to our feast last week! It was so fun to see our students sharing their traditions and food with each other. Student organized events are always a little messier than adult organized ones, and we are especially grateful to those of you that volunteered to support clean up after the feast!
Especially with the widely varying temperatures lately, many children are arriving at school without jackets, hats, boots, or other cold weather gear. Please remind your children that they are required to wear jackets, hats, and gloves or mittens when temperatures are below freezing and must have outdoor shoes or boots. If your child does not have the gear they need, please let us know and we will work to provide what is needed. On a related note - if you have gently used winter coats, snow pants, hats, or gloves that you are willing to donate for our recess borrow box, please send them in with your child.
We are busily preparing for the Upper El Geography Fair, which will be held Wednesday, December 13th from 2-3pm. We are inviting families to come in to see student work. Each student will have a space to present their project, and families can circulate among classrooms to listen to presentations. Please consider attending!
Do you have unused exercise equipment sitting around, taking up space? We'd love to put it to good use. With less than ample space for movement breaks and meeting sensory needs, we're hoping to find donations of the following: a stationary bike, medicine balls (5-12lbs), a small trampoline, and a pull up bar.
Please help your student schedule time to do their homework. It is our hope that students can be mostly independent with their work, but with busy schedules, they will likely need help planning time to do their work. We have seen a decrease in homework returns - please remind your child they can check our blog for essay work.
Check out the Crow Wing River Blog for weekly essay homework, updates, and occasional fun postings about what we're doing in class:
A few things we're working on this week:
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Trickster Tales
Density
Diamante Poems
Geography Fair
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Creation Stories
Geography Fair
Fractions
Tree of Languages
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Geography Fair
Languages of Native Peoples
Percents or Multistep Equations
Minnesota Indigenous Science and Medicine
Thank you for your ongoing support!
Andrea and Cate
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