Dear Parents,

It was good to chat with so many of you this week. Please let me know if you would like to follow up with anything that we discussed (jamesanderson.his@gmail.com).

May 9-13 are the Iowa testing dates, please try not to plan any vacation days during this week as it is difficult to make up the tests.

Notes for next week

Spelling Test on Monday on the following words:

dimmed, rubbing, striped, wasting, traced, stripped, tanning,

smelling, phoning, fainted

Thursday will be the presentations on Taiwan. Students will briefly

share information they have research about Taiwan which includes telling the class about one famous Taiwanese Person,

one Famous Building in Taiwan, and at least 5 interesting facts they have learned.

* I would like to invite you the parents (or anyone else who would be interested) to watch the students presentation this time. Please come to the school at 1:50pm on Thursday (4/28) . They will end at 2:50.

Friday April 29th is the field trip to Taichung Science

Center (the bus leaves school at 8:45am)

This is the Schedule for the day based on student interest and relation to classroom topics.

8:45 - Depart from School

10:15 - Arrive at Science Museum

(bathroom visit)

10:20 - 11:30 Walk around the Environmental Hall

11:00 Bird's Eye View Theater (12 minutes)

11:30 -12:00 SOS Theater - watch Global Warming Reflections

12:00- 12:30 Lunch

12:30- 13:10 Walk around the Life Science Center

13:10-13:20 Make our way to IMAX and bathroom break

13:20 - 14:20 Everest IMAX

14:20 - 14-45 Walk around the Life Science Center

14:45 - Bathroom stop

15:00 Depart from Museum

16:30 Arrive back at school

Have have great week!