Reading Restaurant is Coming Up! Can you help us get ready?
Greetings, Parents!
We
have been hard at work on our Space Research projects. We are also
painting phases of the moon, making Elmer's Glue moon craters, and
twisting apart Oreos to create a Waxing Gibbous Moon!
The Horizon Reading Restaurant will take place here in Horizon on Thursday, April 17th. I will be sending out to you
an invitation tomorrow.
Please sign it and send it back as soon as you can to let us know how many seats we should reserve for you!
Here is what we need help with:
1.
Make (milk-jug) Space Helmets for the kids:
Take home our 20 milk jugs, cut them into the shape of a helmet with
scissors, spray painting them (paint provided). estimated time: 1.5
hours.
You can do this at home. Deadline: Friday, 4/11
2.
Make (soda-bottle) astronaut jet packs for the kids: take home 20 pairs of soda bottles, spray-paint, glue, and tape them onto cardboard. Estimated time: 3 hours
Materials are provided. You can do this at home. Deadline: Friday, 4/11
3.
Put up Bulletin-Board Displays in the Classroom:
come in any day this week or next. give me an hour of your time. We
have five or six "moon", and "space" displays that we need to complete
with a little cutting, pasting, and labeling, and then put up on our
walls.
You would let me know what day or days you have free, and
we'll get you in here for an hour or so.
Deadline: Friday, 4/11
4.
Volunteer to come in (and bring your kid!) on Saturday, April 12th or Sunday, April 13th
any time between about 8:00 am and 1:00 pm. We'll be in here doing
final painting of scenery and hanging of (electric) stars. Doughnuts,
juice, and coffee provided! We had a great time together last year.
5.
Type up our students' rough drafts of their research projects into final-draft form for our Reading Restaurant. Estimated time: your call. One to two hours.
Can be done at home. Deadline: Friday, 4/11
6.
For the most courageous of all:
come in to the classroom, sit down with a student, help her to read her
book about Saturn and talk to her about how to pull out the information
and answer the questions she has for her report.
Estimated time: 40 minutes. Value: priceless.
6a: Ask your own child what he or she is doing for the space report. It'd be great if you could spend some time over the next couple of days helping your boy or girl look up their topic on Youtube.
You may find an interesting Discovery-Channel program on your child's
topic. Also, just talk about what you know about his or her topic. It'll give them a foundation and a lot of confidence for when they dig into their books and websites in here.
That's it for now. Have a great week. And thank you, in advance, for whatever you can do.
Mr. Bolger
