Great Website

http://www.scholastic.com/scholastic_thanksgiving/

This is a great website that the kids can go on to discover what times were like during the Mayflower voyage and the landing in Plimoth.  We went over the section today on what the ship was like and followed the course of the Mayflower.  The sites that I give you are great alternatives to other computer related activites that take away from reading-like FACEBOOK.  Sorry, my pet peeve is about Facebook for children that are not 13.  We can agree to disagree but there is a reason that young children do not need to be on Facebook.  Safety, time away from family, decreased physical activity, poor spelling, bullying, and just getting into things that they don't need to get into are only a few of the reasons that I am not a fan of Facebook for kids.  Let kids be kids-the teen years are tough enough.  Have family game nights, walk and talk with your kids, read a series of books to keep kids interested for the school year, have nightly dinner together, play sports with them!  OK, so now you know where I stand on that issue :)

Hope your week is off to a good start.  We had a good day today even though we are slow as turtles-well I'm not :) the kids are! 

Read and make sure the reading logs are signed.  Happy Monday-I forgot how short weekends really were.

Sell wrapping paper!!  The sale starts today. 

Love, Mrs. C