Final Letter to Students

Dear Students,

            I look forward to having you in my science class this year! I am so very excited to teach and help you learn the wonderful information that we will cover this year. One thing that can be very scary about science is the vernacular or vocabulary. However I have devised many fun strategies to help you learn the vocabulary. Once you have mastered the vocabulary you will be able to understand and make connections throughout the text.

            Another scary thing about science is the amount of new information that we will be reading in the text. If you able to understand what I am writing to you in this letter, then congratulations – you are literate! If you are having problems understanding what I am talking about, then never fear. I have devised many strategies to help you understand what you are reading. There will not be a test on this letter – which I think everyone can understand. 

            Even though science can be a daunting subject, I am here to make sure that we have fun through learning. Learning, yes I know that that does not sound fun, but if you keep a positive attitude, I can show you how fun science can be. I do not believe in a boring lecture and reading straight from the book. I will use many tools in my classroom to make this year your most memorable. We will be listening to songs, watching videos, looking at many interactive websites, and participating in many hands on science labs. And yes, there will be projects to complete both in a group and own your own.

            Projects? Did I just say projects? Yes, there will be a few projects to complete that deal with writing and research. I too am groaning along with you. However, I have many strategies to make these projects fun, and before you know that you have even started the project, you will be done. How can that be you ask? Well, I guess you will just have to wait and see and take my word for it. One quote that I want all of you to know by heart and to use with all your subjects is a quote by Rudyard Kipling, “I keep six honest serving-men, (They taught me all I knew); Their names are What and Why and When, And How and Where and Who. I send them over land and sea, I send them east and west; But after they have worked for me, I give them all a rest.”

Kipling, Rudyard. (1902). "The Elephant's Child." In The Kipling Society.

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