Dear Parents,

For the next 2 weeks we will be working on an Animal Research paper in reading.  Each student has chosen an animal that interests them.  Each day we will do a little more work on completing our paper.  The students will be given plenty of time here at school to complete their project.  However, I did tell them that if they would like to do more research while at home that will be perfectly fine.  Once we have completed the research we will begin to create our written reports. For the presentation of our projects each student will create a Voki (an animated character).  Once the Voki's have been created they will be posted to the blog for parents to view and enjoy.

Now that the STAAR test is over we are able to do some fun, educational activities such as the research project.  The students seem to be very excited to use the netbooks and learn about different animals.