For Halloween on Monday everyone is invited to our annual school-wide Halloween Parade at 9:00am on the track.  Students may dress up in costumes representing book characters, famous historical people, or examples of typical cultural fashions.  The middle school students will have a party in the afternoon and watch part of The Thief Lord, which half the class is currently reading. 

Don't forget to earn money for your class trip on November 1st by helping to "babysit" students from ages 2 and up (there will also be adult supervision) while their parents attend the meeting in the gym.  Parents, this is an opportunity to hear about positive discipline from an international speaker.  Please drop off your child a little before 7:00 pm in the aftercare building to earn some money, and join us in the gym.  For details, follow the link at the right to our JSB website.

October Update

Thanks to all who came to our Open House! We especially appreciated Sam bringing in his large monitor to enhance our viewing of the Minecraft ancient civilization his group created. Many thanks again to Davis and Guy who inspired the use of Minecraft as a way to explore how ancient civilizations lived and developed. The brochures available to all certainly were a popular way for students and parents to get a quick look at the commonalities and differences of the ancient river civilizations.

We were happy to share our biome research as it is through studying our world and its habitats that we then begin to explore how the people, plants, and animals thrive in that environment. In history and literature we ask ourselves, "How does where you live affect how you live?" and in science we ask, "How can we explain and understand the various biomes around the world?" Our interdisciplinary research will culminate in a Biome Fair in the spring.

Our water research in science is proving to be enlightening, especially as we prepare to go down the Cahaba River on October 27th!