Hello

We've been working on summaries.  Tonight's homework is to write an easy one sentence summary of their reading.  They just need to write the title and pages of the book that they are reading.  We've been practicing by summarizing fairy tales that I've been reading from a 100+ year old book.  Today they tried summarizing The Elves and the Shoemaker.  Yesterday we tried Rumpelstiltskin and The Musicians of Bremen.  Ask your kid for a summary of one of those.

The Hunger Games movie was pretty good.  They changed a bit of the plot and left out some characters, but they got most of the major stuff right.  I wrote a bit about the book yesterday, and I wanted to give an added warning that while the first book is violent, the second book has some heavier relationship stuff.  I'm not saying that it is a "hands off" book, but it is one that you may want to talk about with your child if you are going to have them read it.  That said, they are well written and entertaining.  My wife read the whole trilogy over the past two days. 

Students arriving early are going outside in the morning.  Please make sure that they are prepared for the weather.  It amazes me how many don't wear raincoats, and then say, "Well, we never go out when it rains."  It is true.  It is one of the reasons why I started a rainy day club at Jordan Acres with the sole purpose of traipsing about in the woods and in puddles on rainy days.  I like to teach that rain will not make you sick.  Being unprepared and getting wet and cold, that tends to lead to sickness.

Thanks for reading,

Mr. Shea