First, the GOOD NEWS!!
I'll be back at Apex Elementary School for 4 days a week instead of the present 3 days!!! My new schedule will be: Monday-Tuesday-Wednesday-Friday. Grades 4 and 5 AG Language Arts will be 6th and 8th period on Monday and Tuesday. AG Math for grades 4 and 5 will be Wednesdays and Fridays, periods 6 and 8. This new schedule will go into effect Monday, November 2nd.

So, what's been happening in AG classes? In Grade 4 Language Arts, we're just about finished "reading" our way through North Carolina history, geography, scenery, stories and other primary sources. We're also taking a scenic odyssey across highway #64 from from Murphy to Manteo. Students will get their NC out-of-class project assignments on October 22nd and should be sharing with you about their subject, ideas, research, etc. Our annual AG NC Fair will be held on November 23 and everyone is invited! Student projects will be on display as well as down-home NC edibles and artifacts. Parents will be contacted to send in items for this North Carolina is my Home event!

In Grade 4 AG Math students are learning about ratios, recessives, dominance and statistics vis-a-vis our Genetics Unit. Our culminating project will be the creation of alien species with genes designed for and delegated to wonderfully weird physical traits.

In Fifth Grade Language Arts, students have learned all about WWII, the defining event of the 20th century. We're just about to finish The Cay, the historical novel set smack-dab in the middle of WWII and we'll soon begin our research for our WWII projects! Out-of-class projects will be assigned in the next could of weeks and if you've heard or seen nothing, be suspicious! In class we'll be doing expository writing, perfecting the part of paragraph, and some poetry too! The date for our annual "Together We Remember" event to show off projects and such will be announced soon.

Math AG students in fifth grade finished the "Odds 'n Ends" unit of study and now we're "bullishly" leaping into the economics of capitalism, our free-market system, and the stock market! Students will be busy compounding interest, changing fractions to decimals, keeping accurate balance sheets, writing checks, etc. as they become entrepeneurs. We'll invite you investors to our culminating event - our "Initial Public Offering" Day held at the end of our unit of study. Date to be announced ...

As ever, please know how much I enjoy these bright, creative, and enthusiastic students.

And that's a wrap for what's been happening in AG classes in Apex AG-Land!