Our Donors Choose Proposal Was FUNDED!

Look what happens when you go on the Internet asking for free stuff! I sent in a proposal to DonorsChoose.org over the summer and it was COMPLETELY FUNDED just today! That's $1200 worth of slides and 16 Leica microscopes for Room 11! Yay for us! WOO!

HAPPY HOLIDAYS from Room 11

HOMEWORK for December 10

Homework for December 10- December 14

1) Spelling Skills

2) Daily Language Review

3) Daily Academic Vocabulary

4) Daily Paragraph Editing

5) Daily Handwriting Practice

6) Daily Word Problems

7) Daily Geography

8) Daily Math Practice
a. Do NOT do Monday #4 and #5
b. Do NOT do Tuesday #1 and #4
c. Do NOT do Wednesday #1 and #2
d. Do NOT do Thursday #1 and #4

9) Reading Log (You do not need to do the weekend)

The AIDS Quilt Comes to Sutro Elementary

The AIDS Quilt arrived at Sutro last week, and the kids had a moment or two to appreciate the work, effort, and love that went into making each square. The part of the quilt that came to our school took up one full wall in Ms. Lau's Room 9 classroom, and gave the kids a small example of the enormous completed quilt that exists.

The students then wrote essays on what kind of impression the quilt made on them. Many made a statement about how AIDS should not scare people away from being friends with the sick. Others relayed their honest fear of contracting a disease such as HIV or AIDS, no matter how small the chances are. It was a truly illuminating experience...one that showed just how much the kids have grown since first arriving at Sutro years ago in Kindergarten. What an amazing class of students.

The AIDS Quilt
by Carmen Lin

On December 6, 2007, my class went to see the AIDS Quilt in Room 9. It was a very big quilt that had pictures of people who died from AIDS. On the quilt were objects that those people used or liked, their portraits, the dates of when they were born or died, etc.

I feel sad for those people because they were loved by their family members and they miss them a lot. Those people died from AIDS, a disease. AIDS kill your white blood cells and you get sick all the time. It's a tragedy that they died from AIDS.

A lot of people are scared of AIDS because they think you can catch it very easily. The only way to get AIDS is blood-to-blood contact. Since so may people fear AIDS, they stay away from people with AIDS, which will make that person very lonely.

If I was friends with someone who has AIDS, I would still be their friend even if other people didn't want to be that person's friend. I'd just have to be careful when that person was bleeding so that I wouldn't catch AIDS, too.

The Golden Compass Field Trip

The movie was a big success! The kids absolutely loved it. Although it was far more violent than I remember movies being when I was ten, the kids nowadays seem more mature. They weren't fazed by it in the least, which may be good AND bad!

But all in all, a very successful trip! Unfortunately, we only scored a Laidlaw bus on the way to the theater. On the way back, we were forced to take MUNI, which is never a comfortable ride with 33 kids. Everyone behaved wonderfully, however, and I commend them all on a job well done. Kudos to you, students!

Friday's Field Trip to The Van Ness 1000 Theaters!

Just a reminder that we will be seeing THE GOLDEN COMPASS on Friday! The movie begins at 10:50 a.m., and I have already purchased the tickets for the kids, so we are all set. Ms. Van Doren and I will be escorting the class.

Unfortunately, I have not heard back from Laidlaw about getting a bus ride over there, so I think we may have to MUNI it to the theater and back to school again.

However, considering we always get compliments on how well our class behaves every where we go, I have no worries about taking the Room 11 students anywhere in the city!

If you are coming with us to see the movie, please let me know! Thank you.

HOMEWORK for December 3

Homework for December 3-December 10

1) Spelling List

a. Do NOT do spelling dictation

2) Daily Language Review

3) Daily Academic Vocabulary

a. defend, viewpoint, position, perspective

4) Daily Paragraph Editing

a. Fable, “Maui and the Sun”

5) Daily Handwriting Practice

6) Daily Word Problems

7) Daily Geography

a. Mountains and Deserts of the U.S.

8) Tic Tac Math

a. Solve ALL problems

9) Daily Math Practice

a. Do not do Monday problems #2, 4

b. Do not do Tuesday problems #1, 4

c. Do not do Wednesday problem #2, 4

d. Do not do Thursday problem # 1

10) Reading Log

a. Choose a book and read every day. Log your ideas.

INTERNET HUNT: Read the poem “Jabberwocky” by Lewis Carroll. Write a two paragraph essay on what the poem means to you.

Search the Internet on facts about Lewis Carroll. Prepare notes for writing your 4 paragraph essay on his life and writing.