Friday Horizon News

Dear Parents,
Yesterday we started our unit on Economics. We had a discussion about what the difference was between a want and a need. We read a story about a boy named Josh who needed to make a decision as to what to do with his birthday money. Should he save it or should he spend it. Josh ends up buying a hamster. Ask your child to tell you the story and ask them if they think Josh made the right decision. We also watched a great movie about Economics. It focused on the consumer and the producer to human resources, natural resources and capital resources. We brainstormed many of our wants and needs. Today we cut out pictures from magazines of things we wanted and things we needed to survive. Ask your child to tell you about some of their wants and needs.
You will see a flyer in the folder about a bake sale we are planning. We voted today to have the proceeds go to the WCAX Mitten Tree project. Hats and mittens will be purchased with the money we raise and will go to this project. Send back the paperwork on Monday if you are interested in helping with this.
So we have a mystery in our class that we need to solve. All week we are noticing that someone has been writing the name "Jada" everywhere in the classroom. We have found it written on books, walls, mini basketballs and today a new one was found on the computer table. We had a discussion the other day about this and I asked that the person that was doing it stop and to also speak to me privately. I thought it had stopped and then we found the new one. Can you please have a discussion with your child about it. I'm not sure as to what else I can do. I asked each one of them privately as they were leaving today if they were the one and they all said no. I am telling the kids that they can't just tell me who they think did it. They have to have seen them write it or the person may have told them that they did it. I really just want this situation over with so we can end the drama that goes along with it. Let me know if you find out anything.
Thanks
Donna