We have finished reading Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortensen and the work folders have been  collected for review.  We will still be collecting pennies for the Pennies for Peace project to build schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan through the month of January,  so please find and send your pennies to school.  Mrs. Tichy has volunteered to create penny collectors with the students on December 18; collect water or soda bottles for this craft project.

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Mrs. Catania made origami crane ornaments with the students this week.  This created a huge interest in origami folding and led  the students to the many origami books in the classroom and Ms. Arsenault to Pearl Art Store to purchase a plethora of origami paper. The students decided  to read Sadako and the Thousand Cranes and we are all folding origami figures and creating a bulletin board of origami (paper folding) and kirigami (paper cutting) to share with the Clissold community.  It is a tradition in Room 206 to try to fold a thousand cranes to send to Hiroshima, Japan for Peace Day. 

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Our fourth novel of the year will be Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George, which the students will receive next week.  This is a beautiful story of life in the far north.  Julie rejects her village life to find herself lost in the Alaskan wilderness without any survival tools.  She is accepted into a pack of wolves and with their help learns a lot about herself, life, nature and basic human survival.  Eventually she must leave the wilderness and choose between the old and the new ways.