Weekly Email November 3, 2005

Dear Parents,

Snapshots from the High School, Tuesday, November 1:

* The Senior class gathers in the PAC for a 1 & 1/2-hour, one-teacher-for-every-six-student college essay writing workshop

* An expert Sitar player teaches eleventh grade music students about the microbeat patterns of different ragas

* Ninth grade students act out a chance meeting in the street, complete with introductions - conducted entirely in Mandarin

* Ninth grade English students build vocabulary by looking at new words in context in Lorraine Hansberry's "A Raisin in the Sun"

* A captivating assembly filled with film, sitar music and singing, celebrating the Hindu and Sikh holiday Diwali, the "Festival of Lights"

* Tenth grade students plan to rendezvous with their history teacher later in the week to work at the soup kitchen at the uptown Rutgers Presbyterian Church

* Ninth grade world history students discuss the debasement of currency in the Roman Empire and compare that to modern-day inflation

* Eleventh grade astronomy students use the interactive "Starry Night" software to calculate the azimuth and altitude of various celestial objects from different places in the Western hemisphere

Events coming up soon/attachments:

The High School Musical

A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM

Friday November 4, 7:00 PM, Saturday November 5, 2:00 PM and 7:00 PM at the Charlton Street PAC!!!
$8 in advance (tickets on sale in the Sixth Avenue and Charlton Street lobbies), $10 at the door.

Thursday, November 3, 6:30 PM - The first Parents of Children who Receive Academic Support meeting, Charlton Street

If there are any questions please contact Lisa Auerbach at Luna671@aol.com.

Saturday, November 5, 9:30 AM - 3:30 PM - Community Service Committee Event

This Saturday, the LREI Parents Association Community Service Committee (including students from the HS Roundtable) are going to East New York Farms! in Brooklyn to experience a community agriculture project by working in a garden, touring several of the local gardens and visiting the farmers' market where the gardeners sell their own produce. Please see the attached flyer for details. See also the Parents Association Community Service Committee calendar for Fall '05.

Thursday, November 10, 6:30 PM - Tenth Grade Potluck

Thursday, November 10, 6:30 PM - Tenth Grade potluck dinner

Tuesday, November 15
6:00 PM - For ALL parents of ninth graders - a discussion group facilitated by NYC - Parents In Action, Inc.

From their website: "NYC-Parents in Action provides parenting education, information and a communications network to help parents prepare their children and teenagers to cope with social pressures and to make sound choices towards a future free of alcohol and drug abuse."

6:30 PM - Tenth, eleventh and twelfth individual grade parent reps meetings
7:30 PM - Full High School Parent Reps Meeting
Minutes from the last meeting are attached.

All the best,

Tony

CALENDAR
November
* Thursday 3 The first Parents of Children who Receive Academic Support meeting, Charlton Street, 6:30 PM
* Friday 4-Saturday 5 High School Musical
* Saturday 5 Community Service Committee Event
* Thursday 10 Tenth Grade Potluck
* Tuesday 15 Ninth grade parents discussion group with Parents In Action, Inc.; High School Parent Reps Meeting
* Wednesday 23 School closes at noon for Thanksgiving
* Tuesday 29 Last day of Trimester I classes
* Wednesday 30 Trimester I Exams/Presentations

December
* Thursday 1-Friday 2 Trimester I Exams/Presentations; End of Trimester I
* Monday 5 Trimester II begins

As always, please browse the web site at www.lrei.org. Also, note the links to the Middle and Lower School weekly emails on the right. Please take a look at what the students in the other two divisions are up to!

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