Hello Parents!

I just wanted to thank everyone for coming to Open House tonight! I really enjoyed meeting you all and I think I now know why my kids are so wonderful--they have awesome parents!

Just wanted to remind everyone that the district's Pre-AP meeting has been rescheduled to October 20th. The meeting will be at 7:15pm at the Wolter's Administration Building on Ivy St.

As far as our classwork goes, we are still reading The Outsiders and doing some fun, enriching activities with the novel that I think the kids are enjoying. We are also in the (long) process of writing our first paper. We have been doing lots of prewriting activities in class and the kids are really creating some great papers! We will be learning and implementing many different writing tools with this first paper. As we learn a tool/technique in class, we will go back into our own papers and implement the technique, so that the students can use it with something in which they take ownership. Some students will be submitting their finished paper into a writing contest that the district participates in every year. The Scholastic Writing Contest is an amazing opportunity for the students to get their work recognized and published. With this group, I think I could have 82 winners! :)

Let me know if you have any questions!

Mrs. Pena :)