Hello,
I got quite frustrated today. It was actually a great day for much of it, but there is a fine line between making education fun for kids, and them thinking that it is all fun and games. This afternoon my frustration with the blurted out requests of what they would rather do boiled over. I went into quite a rant. I have explained my position on blurting out to them countless times. I have also explained to them that I work hard to plan our days, plan our activities and like to make the decisions on what we're going to do next. So to hear request after request, yelled out, "Can we watch SchoolHouse Rock? Can we do government? Let's do that circle thing! I haven't got to read my stumper yet! Can we do more free reading? Can I? Can we? I want to... No, I would rather... Yeah, let's do that!"
AAAAAUUUGGGHHH!!!
I'm going to pull in the reins a bit tomorrow. Show them a more traditional approach. It is not my style, but I think they forgot who runs the show today. I can ham it up with the best of them, but I can also be a taskmaster. I don't need 21 chiefs in the class. I am perfectly fine with them asking why we are doing something. I always have a goal and our activities always come with a purpose. But to hear that they have a better suggestion, interrupting me, loudly... No.
I'll feel better in the morning. I always do. Not now, however.
I did love some of the teacher stumping questions today. We learned about the windows in the Statue of Liberty, the last czar of Russia, US patrol squadrons and many others. I got a Latin translation of "Look before you leap" partially right. I guessed, "Better safe than sorry." (I give myself partial credit for that.) I did get a cheerleading question right. You may not believe it, and this will probably make you smile, but I was asked if I knew what a "Spread Eagle" was in cheerleading. Yup, I knew that one.
Have a good night.
Mr. Shea
Thursday, September 27, 2012
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Another late post
Hello,
We had a staff meeting about the upcoming NECAP testing. Fourth grade testing will be from Tuesday, October 9, to Thursday the 11th. There will be two sessions a day, one in the morning and one in the afternoon. The fourth grade team met after the staff meeting (thus me writing this past 6:00) and agreed not to give any homework on any night before testing.
Math talk: I have been fascinated to see the struggle with number lines over the past couple of days. Despite knowing many concepts beyond number lines, many students don't have a very good mental picture of what a number line is, how it should be constructed, or how it can be used. Kids formed a numberline from 0 to 1000 in the hall this morning. I started with eleven kids, each representing a multiple of 100. (0, 100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800, 900, 1000) They didn't know that they should be equidistant apart. Once they realized that, they had a lot of trouble getting evenly spaced. I added a few more students, these representing 50, 750, 950. Interestingly enough, they all tried to recalibrate their spaces to continue to be equidistant apart. Trying to get them to understand that 100 should be closer to 50 than 200, was very difficult. We will continue to work with numberlines to help us understand relationships between numbers. I especially like doing the human numberlines.
Ask your child about subjects and predicates. Ask them what this sentence means: A stinky, rotten, hairy banana destroyed a village with TNT.
We had our first fire alarm of the year where I was separated from the class. They were in P.E. when it happened. They did a great job. My ears are still buzzing, however. You wouldn't want to be in this building when it goes off. It is ridiculously loud.
New root word for our vocabulary words is spec, meaning see or look. They are noticing these roots now in their reading. Very cool to see. We will keep doing activities to review past words to keep them at the forefront of their minds.
All for now. Have a great night.
Mr. Shea
We had a staff meeting about the upcoming NECAP testing. Fourth grade testing will be from Tuesday, October 9, to Thursday the 11th. There will be two sessions a day, one in the morning and one in the afternoon. The fourth grade team met after the staff meeting (thus me writing this past 6:00) and agreed not to give any homework on any night before testing.
Math talk: I have been fascinated to see the struggle with number lines over the past couple of days. Despite knowing many concepts beyond number lines, many students don't have a very good mental picture of what a number line is, how it should be constructed, or how it can be used. Kids formed a numberline from 0 to 1000 in the hall this morning. I started with eleven kids, each representing a multiple of 100. (0, 100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800, 900, 1000) They didn't know that they should be equidistant apart. Once they realized that, they had a lot of trouble getting evenly spaced. I added a few more students, these representing 50, 750, 950. Interestingly enough, they all tried to recalibrate their spaces to continue to be equidistant apart. Trying to get them to understand that 100 should be closer to 50 than 200, was very difficult. We will continue to work with numberlines to help us understand relationships between numbers. I especially like doing the human numberlines.
Ask your child about subjects and predicates. Ask them what this sentence means: A stinky, rotten, hairy banana destroyed a village with TNT.
We had our first fire alarm of the year where I was separated from the class. They were in P.E. when it happened. They did a great job. My ears are still buzzing, however. You wouldn't want to be in this building when it goes off. It is ridiculously loud.
New root word for our vocabulary words is spec, meaning see or look. They are noticing these roots now in their reading. Very cool to see. We will keep doing activities to review past words to keep them at the forefront of their minds.
All for now. Have a great night.
Mr. Shea
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
The pledge of allegiance
Hello,
As part of our study of government, we talked about our pledge of allegiance that we do every morning. We discussed what the pledge means, word for word. Basically, it is a promise of loyalty that we make every day to our country. The number and quality of the questions and the following discussions are making me think that this is going to be a very enjoyable year.
Ms. Brown once again raved about our class and their performance in music. They earned all three stars that she gives out for top perfoming classes. Let's hope Ms. D'Agostino has a similar report after tomorrow's P.E. class.
We are reaching the climax of our read aloud, Among the Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix. Will Luke, our lonely third child, join other third children to try to protest the law that forces them to stay hidden? Or will he choose to stay up in his attic? The class has many varied opinions.
I think we should have some finished stories in writing by Friday. Ask your child how their story is coming along. Students have been writing and illustrating stories based on the Little Miss and Mr. series by Roger Hargreaves.
Picture day is Friday. Money and order forms can be brought in before that. Let me know if your child needs a new order form. All children will have their picture taken for the class photo, but only students who have turned in an order form will get individual photos.
We received all of our math manipulatives for the new program this morning. Three big boxes for each classroom. Lots of great stuff for our hands on learners. Math question of the day: How many hundreds is 21, 000? If your child has trouble answering, start with how many hundreds in a thousand, then two thousand, then three thousand. They should notice a pattern.
The PED/MAN root word test went well this afternoon. More of a checkup than a test. Your child should be bringing that home tonight. I corrected it almost instantly. (Pat on the back for me.)
Have a great night.
Mr. Shea
As part of our study of government, we talked about our pledge of allegiance that we do every morning. We discussed what the pledge means, word for word. Basically, it is a promise of loyalty that we make every day to our country. The number and quality of the questions and the following discussions are making me think that this is going to be a very enjoyable year.
Ms. Brown once again raved about our class and their performance in music. They earned all three stars that she gives out for top perfoming classes. Let's hope Ms. D'Agostino has a similar report after tomorrow's P.E. class.
We are reaching the climax of our read aloud, Among the Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix. Will Luke, our lonely third child, join other third children to try to protest the law that forces them to stay hidden? Or will he choose to stay up in his attic? The class has many varied opinions.
I think we should have some finished stories in writing by Friday. Ask your child how their story is coming along. Students have been writing and illustrating stories based on the Little Miss and Mr. series by Roger Hargreaves.
Picture day is Friday. Money and order forms can be brought in before that. Let me know if your child needs a new order form. All children will have their picture taken for the class photo, but only students who have turned in an order form will get individual photos.
We received all of our math manipulatives for the new program this morning. Three big boxes for each classroom. Lots of great stuff for our hands on learners. Math question of the day: How many hundreds is 21, 000? If your child has trouble answering, start with how many hundreds in a thousand, then two thousand, then three thousand. They should notice a pattern.
The PED/MAN root word test went well this afternoon. More of a checkup than a test. Your child should be bringing that home tonight. I corrected it almost instantly. (Pat on the back for me.)
Have a great night.
Mr. Shea
Monday, September 24, 2012
I'm late
Hello,
It's not good when it is past 6:00 and I haven't started this. Real quick: It was great meeting all of you on open house night last week. Parents of 17 out of 20 students in the class showed up. That's a very good sign.
The class struggled with the morning work this morning. (Awkward sentence - I know.) It was a worksheet on making words that contain the "S" sound. Letter combinations included s, ss, sc, ce, ci, and cy. I had to give my lecture on the value of the struggle. They may want quick answers, I want them to think and persevere.
As we start another week in place value, I marvel at how different this math program is from our last one. This one goes much deeper into the topics to allow for greater understanding. This is great now, but because this program will assume prior knowledge in concepts studied in third grade, (regrouping, multiplication, etc.) it is going to get real tough, real fast. I ask you to be patient, but please ask any questions that you may have, any time they come up. I can give you the why and hows of what we are doing. I think your kids are going to benefit a lot from this program and I expect jr. high math should be a lot easier with the strong base that we are going to develop.
The first checks went out. We have some kids already wondering how much they can get away with and still get paid. We want productive members of society, so they are going to find out real fast what it is like to go unpaid. It won't be very fun come payday, or when rent is due. Getting loans from the bank will only cause them to dig a deeper hole. We talked today about how banks make money through savings and loans. If you have either or both, it might be something that you could discuss with your child to make it more real to them.
We didn't have a special today because it is an off library week. In fourth grade we only get one library class every two weeks. We do get to schedule a time to switch out books on the alternate weeks.
Have a great night.
Mr. Shea
It's not good when it is past 6:00 and I haven't started this. Real quick: It was great meeting all of you on open house night last week. Parents of 17 out of 20 students in the class showed up. That's a very good sign.
The class struggled with the morning work this morning. (Awkward sentence - I know.) It was a worksheet on making words that contain the "S" sound. Letter combinations included s, ss, sc, ce, ci, and cy. I had to give my lecture on the value of the struggle. They may want quick answers, I want them to think and persevere.
As we start another week in place value, I marvel at how different this math program is from our last one. This one goes much deeper into the topics to allow for greater understanding. This is great now, but because this program will assume prior knowledge in concepts studied in third grade, (regrouping, multiplication, etc.) it is going to get real tough, real fast. I ask you to be patient, but please ask any questions that you may have, any time they come up. I can give you the why and hows of what we are doing. I think your kids are going to benefit a lot from this program and I expect jr. high math should be a lot easier with the strong base that we are going to develop.
The first checks went out. We have some kids already wondering how much they can get away with and still get paid. We want productive members of society, so they are going to find out real fast what it is like to go unpaid. It won't be very fun come payday, or when rent is due. Getting loans from the bank will only cause them to dig a deeper hole. We talked today about how banks make money through savings and loans. If you have either or both, it might be something that you could discuss with your child to make it more real to them.
We didn't have a special today because it is an off library week. In fourth grade we only get one library class every two weeks. We do get to schedule a time to switch out books on the alternate weeks.
Have a great night.
Mr. Shea
Thursday, September 20, 2012
No blog tonight - Open House
Hello,
Open House starts any minute and goes until 7:00. If you're a bit late just knock on the window, I'll let you in.
Thanks and good night.
Mr. Shea
Open House starts any minute and goes until 7:00. If you're a bit late just knock on the window, I'll let you in.
Thanks and good night.
Mr. Shea
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Long meeting
Hello,
Our 4th grade team meeting went very long, so I'm going to keep this relatively short. I definitely want to let you know that we got into a discussion about 9/11 today. I meant to talk briefly about this on the anniversary of the attacks, but failed to do so. We got there in a roundabout way this afternoon. We were talking about the branches of government, which led to the role of the president as commander in chief of our armed forces. The hands were up and the questions were flying and we jumped from Osama Bin Laden talk, to 9/11, to Pakistan's neighbors, to Iran and Iraq, to Pearl Harbor, and on and on. It was quite a talk. Class ended with five hands still in the air. I told them that I loved all of their comments and questions, and that we can talk tomorrow if they still have questions, but I implored them to ask their parents these questions as well. They are very curious which is great.
I was very honest, but not brutally so. I told them that the president has a ridiculous amount of responsibility and that many of his/her decisions can cost lives. I told them that we will never forget 9/11 because we were attacked and many people died. It was shocking, but also brutally sad. Thank you for taking some time to see if they have more questions and to give them your perspective. Drop me a line if you want more details of our discussion.
Let's change the topic... Did you notice some marks on your child's face this afternoon? We started our study of quotation marks today. Since everything that comes out of a speaker's mouth must be surrounded by quotation marks, I did a little face painting. Quotes can be tricky, so we will be returning to this topic throughout the year. Many students had written dialogue in their latest stories, so I felt like they had to get some basics down.
Ask your child what italics means. Or why would a writer italicize something? Again, just the basics. This was a necessary lesson for their reading mainly. Most of their writing won't be typed this year. They definitely know what it means to emphasize a word. My ears are still ringing.
Open house is tomorrow night at 6:00. If you need to come early, I'll be here.
Thanks for reading. Have a great night.
Mr. Shea
Our 4th grade team meeting went very long, so I'm going to keep this relatively short. I definitely want to let you know that we got into a discussion about 9/11 today. I meant to talk briefly about this on the anniversary of the attacks, but failed to do so. We got there in a roundabout way this afternoon. We were talking about the branches of government, which led to the role of the president as commander in chief of our armed forces. The hands were up and the questions were flying and we jumped from Osama Bin Laden talk, to 9/11, to Pakistan's neighbors, to Iran and Iraq, to Pearl Harbor, and on and on. It was quite a talk. Class ended with five hands still in the air. I told them that I loved all of their comments and questions, and that we can talk tomorrow if they still have questions, but I implored them to ask their parents these questions as well. They are very curious which is great.
I was very honest, but not brutally so. I told them that the president has a ridiculous amount of responsibility and that many of his/her decisions can cost lives. I told them that we will never forget 9/11 because we were attacked and many people died. It was shocking, but also brutally sad. Thank you for taking some time to see if they have more questions and to give them your perspective. Drop me a line if you want more details of our discussion.
Let's change the topic... Did you notice some marks on your child's face this afternoon? We started our study of quotation marks today. Since everything that comes out of a speaker's mouth must be surrounded by quotation marks, I did a little face painting. Quotes can be tricky, so we will be returning to this topic throughout the year. Many students had written dialogue in their latest stories, so I felt like they had to get some basics down.
Ask your child what italics means. Or why would a writer italicize something? Again, just the basics. This was a necessary lesson for their reading mainly. Most of their writing won't be typed this year. They definitely know what it means to emphasize a word. My ears are still ringing.
Open house is tomorrow night at 6:00. If you need to come early, I'll be here.
Thanks for reading. Have a great night.
Mr. Shea
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
No preaching today
Hello,
We took the NWEA Map test for reading this afternoon. I felt like many of the students gave it their best. I was disappointed in some of them for never raising their hand with a question. The test is designed to find a level of question where you get half of them right. The better you do, the harder the questions get. I gave them strict instruction, if you don't know a word or what a question is asking, please raise your hand so I can see the question and we can discuss it later. Everyone taking the test missed multiple questions, yet some never raised their hand. Some students learned from the test, some didn't.
Our new vocabulary root word was given out today. Man or Manu is the root meaning hands. (as in manicure, manuscript or manufacture). Students need to write a sentence using each of the ten new words tonight. I was impressed with last night's ped words homework.
Chorus permission slips went home yesterday. If your child wishes to participate in chorus, they need to have you sign the permission form. They won't get another chance to join until January. Please realize that if they do sign up for chorus, however, they are signing up for the entire year. You cannot join and quit. You cannot join and then decide not to do it for the second half of the year. You are making a one year commitment. Kind of like the army.
Open house is Thursday night. I hope many of you can make it.
I'm keeping this short due to an after school meeting. I have another tomorrow, so I may be late in posting.
Thanks for reading,
Mr. Shea
We took the NWEA Map test for reading this afternoon. I felt like many of the students gave it their best. I was disappointed in some of them for never raising their hand with a question. The test is designed to find a level of question where you get half of them right. The better you do, the harder the questions get. I gave them strict instruction, if you don't know a word or what a question is asking, please raise your hand so I can see the question and we can discuss it later. Everyone taking the test missed multiple questions, yet some never raised their hand. Some students learned from the test, some didn't.
Our new vocabulary root word was given out today. Man or Manu is the root meaning hands. (as in manicure, manuscript or manufacture). Students need to write a sentence using each of the ten new words tonight. I was impressed with last night's ped words homework.
Chorus permission slips went home yesterday. If your child wishes to participate in chorus, they need to have you sign the permission form. They won't get another chance to join until January. Please realize that if they do sign up for chorus, however, they are signing up for the entire year. You cannot join and quit. You cannot join and then decide not to do it for the second half of the year. You are making a one year commitment. Kind of like the army.
Open house is Thursday night. I hope many of you can make it.
I'm keeping this short due to an after school meeting. I have another tomorrow, so I may be late in posting.
Thanks for reading,
Mr. Shea
Monday, September 17, 2012
Have time for a lecture?
Hello,
I did some work this weekend on getting our classroom economy moving forward. Jobs were more clearly defined. Some positions are getting bumps in pay with the added responsibilities. I started working a bit with the bankers today to set up their portfolios. They should be open for business soon. There were a lot of great questions from the class: Can we raise the rent when we buy someone's desk? Can we go in together with a friend to buy a desk? Can you buy someone's desk who doesn't want to sell it? All of my answers were based on the real world.
We had our first visit from a volunteer from Bowdoin College this morning. She will be coming in during math class every Monday. I was a little disappointed during introductions when the first five kids in our class said, "My name is _____________, and I love video games." This brings me to a yearly lecture that I like to give regarding video games, television, and our youth. Before I start that, I need to thank Bowdoin and their fantastic volunteers. Many of these students have never stepped foot into a public school. I commend them for giving some of their valuable time, and while I'd like to think that it is a win-win situation, I can't thank them enough for what they are able to do for our kids.
Onto the lecture part... I'll keep it short and sweet this year. If your child has a television in their room, please take it out. If you can't, I will gladly do it. Just let me know a good time to come over. And I am being totally serious. If you think your child is doing fine with it, they could do much better without it. There, I'm done. I'm sorry if I offended anyone. I know that parenting is the toughest job in the world and I don't want to pretend to know more than any of you in that area. But as far as video games and televisions in kid's bedrooms, I speak from a lot of experience when I say, "Please, no." Usually I site research and personal stories. Nope. Short and sweet. Maybe not sweet. But do what you will with the info.
For those of you still reading... we have our Reading NWEA testing tomorrow afternoon. Please give your child a healthy breakfast and snack.
Have a great night. Thanks for doing all you do, including tolerating your child's rambling teacher.
Mr. Shea
I did some work this weekend on getting our classroom economy moving forward. Jobs were more clearly defined. Some positions are getting bumps in pay with the added responsibilities. I started working a bit with the bankers today to set up their portfolios. They should be open for business soon. There were a lot of great questions from the class: Can we raise the rent when we buy someone's desk? Can we go in together with a friend to buy a desk? Can you buy someone's desk who doesn't want to sell it? All of my answers were based on the real world.
We had our first visit from a volunteer from Bowdoin College this morning. She will be coming in during math class every Monday. I was a little disappointed during introductions when the first five kids in our class said, "My name is _____________, and I love video games." This brings me to a yearly lecture that I like to give regarding video games, television, and our youth. Before I start that, I need to thank Bowdoin and their fantastic volunteers. Many of these students have never stepped foot into a public school. I commend them for giving some of their valuable time, and while I'd like to think that it is a win-win situation, I can't thank them enough for what they are able to do for our kids.
Onto the lecture part... I'll keep it short and sweet this year. If your child has a television in their room, please take it out. If you can't, I will gladly do it. Just let me know a good time to come over. And I am being totally serious. If you think your child is doing fine with it, they could do much better without it. There, I'm done. I'm sorry if I offended anyone. I know that parenting is the toughest job in the world and I don't want to pretend to know more than any of you in that area. But as far as video games and televisions in kid's bedrooms, I speak from a lot of experience when I say, "Please, no." Usually I site research and personal stories. Nope. Short and sweet. Maybe not sweet. But do what you will with the info.
For those of you still reading... we have our Reading NWEA testing tomorrow afternoon. Please give your child a healthy breakfast and snack.
Have a great night. Thanks for doing all you do, including tolerating your child's rambling teacher.
Mr. Shea
Thursday, September 13, 2012
Some math notes
Hello,
I wanted to write a little bit about math this year. We used to have math homework every night from Monday through Thursday. I don't think that will be the case this year with the new math program. If your child does have math homework, like tonight, you can be assured that it will be review. Your child is responsible for bringing that work home, completing it, and then bringing it back to class the next day. You may want to review with your child the procedures they use to make this happen. By this time they should be familiar with their assignment book and they should have some type of binder or folder that goes back and forth from school to home every night.
Each Monday I will also give out a weekly challenge. This isn’t due until Friday, and this will be work that they may be a bit unfamiliar with. I will introduce the challenges to get them started, but they are designed so that most students will struggle a bit on them. These challenges are graded on effort only. I am much less concerned in the right answer than I am in how students react when they don’t immediately find the solution. I want students to come in on Tues, Wed, and Thursday and keep asking questions. I will gladly help those who are putting in the effort. I think these challenges are going to be especially important this year because we aren't able to group according to skills. This will be one area where everyone in the class should have some questions.
I hope you will help your child as well, but please don’t just give answers. Allow them to try different methods. Allow them to struggle a bit. Ask what they have tried out so far. If they can show you that they have tried, then you can help, but “I don’t know what to do!” or “I don’t get it!” shouldn’t cut it. I believe that these challenges are sorely needed. Many students don't have much of an opportunity to struggle with a problem anymore before someone comes rushing to their aid. I want them to struggle. They will get credit for struggling. Please allow them to.
I will also be introducing a homework club in the coming weeks that will run until 5:00, once a week. We will do homework for the first 45 minutes and play games for the last 45 minutes. Last year, we did fun science for the last part of the sessions, but I think there is more of a need for playing games this year. Math, strategy, sportsmanship, responsibility and camaraderie are just some of the reasons that I think that games are the way to go this year. I'll let you know the day of the week when I know myself. Everyone in the class will be invited, but attendance will always be optional.
Mr. Shea
I wanted to write a little bit about math this year. We used to have math homework every night from Monday through Thursday. I don't think that will be the case this year with the new math program. If your child does have math homework, like tonight, you can be assured that it will be review. Your child is responsible for bringing that work home, completing it, and then bringing it back to class the next day. You may want to review with your child the procedures they use to make this happen. By this time they should be familiar with their assignment book and they should have some type of binder or folder that goes back and forth from school to home every night.
Each Monday I will also give out a weekly challenge. This isn’t due until Friday, and this will be work that they may be a bit unfamiliar with. I will introduce the challenges to get them started, but they are designed so that most students will struggle a bit on them. These challenges are graded on effort only. I am much less concerned in the right answer than I am in how students react when they don’t immediately find the solution. I want students to come in on Tues, Wed, and Thursday and keep asking questions. I will gladly help those who are putting in the effort. I think these challenges are going to be especially important this year because we aren't able to group according to skills. This will be one area where everyone in the class should have some questions.
Every year, countries are ranked according to the math ability of their children. Unfortunately, American children have been slowly falling in these rankings for years. I subscribe, in part, to Malcolm Gladwell’s assertion that this is largely cultural. He states, “Asian culture has a profoundly different relationship to work. It rewards people who are persistent. If you take a random group of 8-year-old American and Japanese kids, give them all a really, really hard math problem, and start a stopwatch, the American kids will give up after 30, 40 seconds. If you let the test run for 15 minutes, the Japanese kids will not have given up. You have to take it away.”
Research shows that there is validity to Gladwell’s tests. A country’s math ability ranking positively correlates with the time its students will give to a problem before giving up. In fact, the two ranking lists are nearly identical.
So what can we do to get them to be more persistent? As I said, I think that many kids are never allowed to struggle. Many American adults, including teachers, do what they can so their children are never uncomfortable. I’m asking you to let them be uncomfortable on these challenges. Make them come in and ask for help. If we can get them to achieve a bit of success after struggling, they won’t be so averse to it the next time. Teaching fourth grade over the past six years, I have to mention this: I am amazed at how difficult that it is for many kids to admit that they don’t know something. The only way to learn anything is to come from a place of not knowing. I try very hard to create an atmosphere in class where everyone can feel safe to ask questions. I praise everyone with a question, thanking them for asking what I am sure others are wondering about. It isn’t nearly enough. There obviously is a lot of pressure to know it all or to not look bad. Unfortunately this pressure is really getting in the way of learning. Please encourage your kids to speak up when they have a question.
One last thing that you can do is play games with your kids. Dice games and card games are great for their addition skills and number familiarity. I am always surprised at how many fourth graders have to count the dots on dice. So please, have fun and help them learn at the same time. All year long I’ll be introducing games that you can play at home. I will also be introducing a homework club in the coming weeks that will run until 5:00, once a week. We will do homework for the first 45 minutes and play games for the last 45 minutes. Last year, we did fun science for the last part of the sessions, but I think there is more of a need for playing games this year. Math, strategy, sportsmanship, responsibility and camaraderie are just some of the reasons that I think that games are the way to go this year. I'll let you know the day of the week when I know myself. Everyone in the class will be invited, but attendance will always be optional.
And lastly, I don't think that I've mentioned it yet, but I love my job. It is ridiculously challenging and I think ridiculously important. I understand what your children mean to you and I do my absolute best to educate them to the best of my ability. In my opinion, this only works if the children know that we are on the same page. The sooner we can meet or have a conversation, with or without your child, the better. Please email, call, or drop in if you’d like to speak to me about anything.
Thanks,Mr. Shea
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
Hello
Hi,
Sorry this is late. We had a staff meeting this afternoon.
I assigned math books today. I'll have them take them home tomorrow night so you can peruse book one of the fourth grade program. We took another check up this morning to see if they are ready to start chapter one. I had done some reteaching of place value over the last couple of days. Either way, we will start chapter one tomorrow. I think the first chapter will be okay to start, even if some are a little shaky, because it continues with the place value concepts. Chapter two, however, really ratchets up the pace. I still do not know how that is going to work, but I'll keep you informed. An easy activity to do with your child is to say a number, like 5,234 and ask them to count on by tens, or by hundreds, or by thousands, etc. (a response for tens would be "5244, 5254, 5264...).
Our read aloud, Among the Hidden, is heating up. Luke, our poor third child, living in a country that forbids third children, has discovered another third child. Today he raced across his back yard to confront them, only to find the back door of the other child's house locked. Ask your child for their predictions on what might happen next. What would they do?
Our government has made a few laws. No cutting in line. No talking when someone else is talking. Every other Friday they get to eat lunch in the classroom. There was lots of frustration in Congress today. Just like the real world. I like it.
Students did well with the root word ped last night. We did another activity with those words today. We also talked about ways that they could work on their spelling words that might help with tomorrow's spelling test.
School House Rock has assisted me in introducing Subject / Predicate and some of the parts of speech this week. I also showed the "I'm Just a Bill" cartoon. These are good little clips to support what they are learning.
Students read many small Roger Hargreaves books this afternoon. He is the author of the Little Miss ________ and Mr. ____________ books. Students will learn about adjectives through these books and then will write a book of their own. Some of the more popular titles today were Mr. Happy, Mr. Skinny, Little Miss Tiny and Little Miss Chatterbox. Did your child have a favorite?
Thanks for reading. Have a great night.
Mr. Shea
Sorry this is late. We had a staff meeting this afternoon.
I assigned math books today. I'll have them take them home tomorrow night so you can peruse book one of the fourth grade program. We took another check up this morning to see if they are ready to start chapter one. I had done some reteaching of place value over the last couple of days. Either way, we will start chapter one tomorrow. I think the first chapter will be okay to start, even if some are a little shaky, because it continues with the place value concepts. Chapter two, however, really ratchets up the pace. I still do not know how that is going to work, but I'll keep you informed. An easy activity to do with your child is to say a number, like 5,234 and ask them to count on by tens, or by hundreds, or by thousands, etc. (a response for tens would be "5244, 5254, 5264...).
Our read aloud, Among the Hidden, is heating up. Luke, our poor third child, living in a country that forbids third children, has discovered another third child. Today he raced across his back yard to confront them, only to find the back door of the other child's house locked. Ask your child for their predictions on what might happen next. What would they do?
Our government has made a few laws. No cutting in line. No talking when someone else is talking. Every other Friday they get to eat lunch in the classroom. There was lots of frustration in Congress today. Just like the real world. I like it.
Students did well with the root word ped last night. We did another activity with those words today. We also talked about ways that they could work on their spelling words that might help with tomorrow's spelling test.
School House Rock has assisted me in introducing Subject / Predicate and some of the parts of speech this week. I also showed the "I'm Just a Bill" cartoon. These are good little clips to support what they are learning.
Students read many small Roger Hargreaves books this afternoon. He is the author of the Little Miss ________ and Mr. ____________ books. Students will learn about adjectives through these books and then will write a book of their own. Some of the more popular titles today were Mr. Happy, Mr. Skinny, Little Miss Tiny and Little Miss Chatterbox. Did your child have a favorite?
Thanks for reading. Have a great night.
Mr. Shea
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
Beautiful Day
Hello,
We're not quite getting through everything that I hope to each day, but I can't complain about the journey so far. I'm pleased with the energy level and the enthusiasm. My favorite trait is curiosity and many in the class have a healthy dose of that. Overall, I'm very happy with this class and think we should be able to accomplish some great things.
I was hoping to talk a little about September 11th, but I didn't feel like I had the right opportunity today. I think it is important for them to see beyond the school bubble, the town bubble, the state bubble and the national bubble, so I will be sure to talk a bit about the history of that day tomorrow.
Students got their first vocabulary sheets today. I have a book that concentrates on Greek and Latin roots of words and I love it. I think it is a great way to introduce groups of words. This week's root word is ped, meaning foot. We went over the list of words and discussed how you can break down words into different parts. All of the words in the list have a form of ped in them, and all the definitions are related to feet. We have a boy in the class fluent in Spanish, and another fluent in French, and they were able to share the very similar words for foot in those languages. I look forward to what these students should be able to add to our word discussions all year long.
Check out the sheet and see what you think. I've learned a lot from these sheets over the last two years. Their assignment is just to use the words in sentences. You may want to help with some pronounciations. We went over it in class, but I think some may forget on a couple of them.
I was planning on math homework, but we once again didn't get to where I wanted to get. I won't give math homework unless it is review. The exception to that will be the math challenges, and I issue one today. Based on the number of kids who immediately stopped paying attention when I said it was optional, this will be the last optional challenge that we have in a while. Next week's will be mandatory, but based on effort, not on whether or not correct answers were found. I'll explain more on that on next week's challenge.
We're having company at my house tonight, so I'm going to cut this a bit short. Keep the questions or comments coming, and feel free to come in after school any day to talk. We can schedule something if you wish, but I don't want to wait until November conferences to meet all of you. This will be a well oiled machine by May or June.
Thanks,
Mr. Shea
We're not quite getting through everything that I hope to each day, but I can't complain about the journey so far. I'm pleased with the energy level and the enthusiasm. My favorite trait is curiosity and many in the class have a healthy dose of that. Overall, I'm very happy with this class and think we should be able to accomplish some great things.
I was hoping to talk a little about September 11th, but I didn't feel like I had the right opportunity today. I think it is important for them to see beyond the school bubble, the town bubble, the state bubble and the national bubble, so I will be sure to talk a bit about the history of that day tomorrow.
Students got their first vocabulary sheets today. I have a book that concentrates on Greek and Latin roots of words and I love it. I think it is a great way to introduce groups of words. This week's root word is ped, meaning foot. We went over the list of words and discussed how you can break down words into different parts. All of the words in the list have a form of ped in them, and all the definitions are related to feet. We have a boy in the class fluent in Spanish, and another fluent in French, and they were able to share the very similar words for foot in those languages. I look forward to what these students should be able to add to our word discussions all year long.
Check out the sheet and see what you think. I've learned a lot from these sheets over the last two years. Their assignment is just to use the words in sentences. You may want to help with some pronounciations. We went over it in class, but I think some may forget on a couple of them.
I was planning on math homework, but we once again didn't get to where I wanted to get. I won't give math homework unless it is review. The exception to that will be the math challenges, and I issue one today. Based on the number of kids who immediately stopped paying attention when I said it was optional, this will be the last optional challenge that we have in a while. Next week's will be mandatory, but based on effort, not on whether or not correct answers were found. I'll explain more on that on next week's challenge.
We're having company at my house tonight, so I'm going to cut this a bit short. Keep the questions or comments coming, and feel free to come in after school any day to talk. We can schedule something if you wish, but I don't want to wait until November conferences to meet all of you. This will be a well oiled machine by May or June.
Thanks,
Mr. Shea
Monday, September 10, 2012
NWEA testing today
Hello,
Well, we had some testing today. I didn't realize that we were the first homeroom class to be tested until yesterday. I put it up on the calendar, but realized that I was late informing you, so I apologize for that. The NWEA MAP test is a test that Brunswick performs to measure growth over time. We give it in the fall and then again in March. I'm not a huge fan of the test, but I thought this year's version was by far the best that I had seen. Many questions gave students virtual manipulatives to use to help them solve the questions. It also seemed to have more real world problems and less questions on pure definitions.
It did take a huge chunk of our day, however. The kids tested from 9:10 to 10:10 and about half of them went again from 2:30 until the end of the day. I was proud that they were taking their time, but I don't think that all of them have a firm grasp on what "doing their best" means yet. We'll get there. I was constantly reminding students to use their scrap paper. I also wanted them to raise their hand if they were unsure of something so that we could go over it later. They still aren't too keen on letting me know what they don't know. I keep telling them that it's my job to teach them what they don't know and that my job is easier if you tell me what you don't know, rather than pretending that you do. It's understandable.
I tried to explain about our spelling homework on the homework calendar. On the usual Monday, students will get their last week's spelling test back. They will write down words they missed and add a few more so they have ten words to study for the week. I write challenge words on the board to help them come up with their ten. This afternoon, time was limited, so I didn't get to check them all. I usually go around and sign their notebook, showing you that the words are approved and assuring them that they are studying words that are actually spelled correctly. I will check these in the morning.
The reading logs that went home are a bit different than I have done in the past. Students are expected to read a minumum of twenty minutes a night for at least five nights a week. I am allowing them to keep track of pages read instead of minutes. I feel like that will be more convenient for my better readers. On busy nights, reading can be put on hold, but five nights need to have reading listed. Students must also provide a one or two sentence explanation of either what they read or something that they learned from their reading. Reading logs are due on Monday with parent and student signatures. As always, if you have any questions or comments, 841-2599 or email. They don't recommend putting cell numbers up so I probably won't post that number again this year. Please write it down or put it in your phone.
Our first music class of the year tomorrow. We have Ms. Brown. She is an outstanding music teacher and I'm sure our class will be one of her best. I make a point of checking on those things.
Have a great night. If you want to hear a little story, ask your child about my cave experience.
Mr. Shea
Well, we had some testing today. I didn't realize that we were the first homeroom class to be tested until yesterday. I put it up on the calendar, but realized that I was late informing you, so I apologize for that. The NWEA MAP test is a test that Brunswick performs to measure growth over time. We give it in the fall and then again in March. I'm not a huge fan of the test, but I thought this year's version was by far the best that I had seen. Many questions gave students virtual manipulatives to use to help them solve the questions. It also seemed to have more real world problems and less questions on pure definitions.
It did take a huge chunk of our day, however. The kids tested from 9:10 to 10:10 and about half of them went again from 2:30 until the end of the day. I was proud that they were taking their time, but I don't think that all of them have a firm grasp on what "doing their best" means yet. We'll get there. I was constantly reminding students to use their scrap paper. I also wanted them to raise their hand if they were unsure of something so that we could go over it later. They still aren't too keen on letting me know what they don't know. I keep telling them that it's my job to teach them what they don't know and that my job is easier if you tell me what you don't know, rather than pretending that you do. It's understandable.
I tried to explain about our spelling homework on the homework calendar. On the usual Monday, students will get their last week's spelling test back. They will write down words they missed and add a few more so they have ten words to study for the week. I write challenge words on the board to help them come up with their ten. This afternoon, time was limited, so I didn't get to check them all. I usually go around and sign their notebook, showing you that the words are approved and assuring them that they are studying words that are actually spelled correctly. I will check these in the morning.
The reading logs that went home are a bit different than I have done in the past. Students are expected to read a minumum of twenty minutes a night for at least five nights a week. I am allowing them to keep track of pages read instead of minutes. I feel like that will be more convenient for my better readers. On busy nights, reading can be put on hold, but five nights need to have reading listed. Students must also provide a one or two sentence explanation of either what they read or something that they learned from their reading. Reading logs are due on Monday with parent and student signatures. As always, if you have any questions or comments, 841-2599 or email. They don't recommend putting cell numbers up so I probably won't post that number again this year. Please write it down or put it in your phone.
Our first music class of the year tomorrow. We have Ms. Brown. She is an outstanding music teacher and I'm sure our class will be one of her best. I make a point of checking on those things.
Have a great night. If you want to hear a little story, ask your child about my cave experience.
Mr. Shea
Thursday, September 6, 2012
Day Three
Hello,
Okay, they are getting a little more comfortable with each other. There is good and bad that goes with that. We are learning about our classmates and are eager to share about ourselves, which is great. We also sometimes feel that our own personal voice is the most important, so we talk over people. That isn't so great. I would say that is the number one thing that we need to work on to be a good team: one speaker at a time.
The class took their first Sitton spelling test of the year today. They are asked to spell twenty words on a cloze test. All of the words are very common. The Sitton program is based on learning the most highly used words in the English language. From today's test, students will start being assigned specific high-frequency words that they need to learn. New words will be assigned on Mondays with the quizzes taking place on Thursdays. Tonight's homework, based on vowel sounds, comes directly from the Sitton book.
The Homework in a Bag assignment has gone very well so far. I got this idea from Ms. Boehm, a fantastic teacher from Jordan Acres who left us four years ago. Our class got through about 2/3 of the bags today. It's a fun way to see and hear about their strong interests and it is definitely helping me connect with some of them.
Our first official Math in Focus day started with the pre-test. This is a test that shows if students are ready for chapter one of the fourth grade book. I haven't graded them yet, but I could see that many students have some gaps in their math knowledge. Regrouping and borrowing were the major stumbling blocks. We'll have to back up the bus for some, before we can move forward.
Our read aloud, Among the Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix, has been a minor hit, but wait until tomorrow. I'll leave them for the weekend on a major cliff-hanger. The story is about a boy who is the youngest of three children. He lives in a country where the government only allows two children per family. He spends most of his time hiding up in the attic. It is a great story that I like to read while teaching government. I think I'll have them clamoring for more tomorrow afternoon.
FYI: I usually don't post anything on Fridays. I put in a lot of time during the week, but I tend to get out of here pretty quickly after school Friday (only to collapse from exhaustion on my couch.) I have found very few things that can compare with the amount of energy it takes to do this job. I come in every Sunday recharged to pick up the pieces, correct papers and plan for the week. So there will be no need to check for a new post until Monday after school.
Thanks for reading. Please contact me with any concerns, queries, or comments.
Mr. Shea
Okay, they are getting a little more comfortable with each other. There is good and bad that goes with that. We are learning about our classmates and are eager to share about ourselves, which is great. We also sometimes feel that our own personal voice is the most important, so we talk over people. That isn't so great. I would say that is the number one thing that we need to work on to be a good team: one speaker at a time.
The class took their first Sitton spelling test of the year today. They are asked to spell twenty words on a cloze test. All of the words are very common. The Sitton program is based on learning the most highly used words in the English language. From today's test, students will start being assigned specific high-frequency words that they need to learn. New words will be assigned on Mondays with the quizzes taking place on Thursdays. Tonight's homework, based on vowel sounds, comes directly from the Sitton book.
The Homework in a Bag assignment has gone very well so far. I got this idea from Ms. Boehm, a fantastic teacher from Jordan Acres who left us four years ago. Our class got through about 2/3 of the bags today. It's a fun way to see and hear about their strong interests and it is definitely helping me connect with some of them.
Our first official Math in Focus day started with the pre-test. This is a test that shows if students are ready for chapter one of the fourth grade book. I haven't graded them yet, but I could see that many students have some gaps in their math knowledge. Regrouping and borrowing were the major stumbling blocks. We'll have to back up the bus for some, before we can move forward.
Our read aloud, Among the Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix, has been a minor hit, but wait until tomorrow. I'll leave them for the weekend on a major cliff-hanger. The story is about a boy who is the youngest of three children. He lives in a country where the government only allows two children per family. He spends most of his time hiding up in the attic. It is a great story that I like to read while teaching government. I think I'll have them clamoring for more tomorrow afternoon.
FYI: I usually don't post anything on Fridays. I put in a lot of time during the week, but I tend to get out of here pretty quickly after school Friday (only to collapse from exhaustion on my couch.) I have found very few things that can compare with the amount of energy it takes to do this job. I come in every Sunday recharged to pick up the pieces, correct papers and plan for the week. So there will be no need to check for a new post until Monday after school.
Thanks for reading. Please contact me with any concerns, queries, or comments.
Mr. Shea
Wednesday, September 5, 2012
A Two Special Day
Hello,
Most of the class brought in sneakers for gym today. Hopefully we'll have 100% of the kids with sneakers for next Wednesday. Ms. D'Agostino is a great physical education teacher with a real knack for introducing games and activities that coincide with many of the real world lessons that we are teaching in our regular classrooms.
We will usually only have one special on Wednesday's, but we were treated to an extra library session by Mrs. Sairio this afternoon. Our regular library day will be Monday. (I sent a class schedule home with your child tonight.) In fourth grade we only get our library special once every two weeks, so today's session saved us from a much longer wait before our first library class.
We had some great news stories reported on this morning. It was an impressive array of topics. Interestingly enough, not one was on the Democratic National Convention. I'm kidding. Hopefully they will get a little more interested in the election, however, as they learn more about government.
I appreciate the help at home. Many of you signed the assignment books and I would love if you would keep doing that. It is also a good spot to jot down a quick message to me, if you would like. Unfortunately, your homework is not over. A health update form was mistakenly omitted from your packet last night. Please get that back to me when you can.
We spent some time on place value this morning. We played with cubes, rods and flats. These are plastic blocks used to represent numbers. (One cubic cm represents one.) We did some counting by ones, tens, hundreds and thousands with a focus on counting correctly without saying the word "and" in the middle of a number. When saying a number, the word and means that the rest of the number will be less than one (as in three and one quarter). We put together a visual representation of these numbers using the blocks. We also built a giant cube out of PVC pipes to represent one million. We went outside with tape measures to visualize even higher numbers. My favorite line of the day came during the time outside when I heard someone say, "You've got to blog about this!"
The two homework pieces tonight should be relatively fun. One is easy: put two different items in a small bag that represent things that are important to you. Tomorrow we will take a look at the bags and try to guess what the items represent and who brought them in. The other homework is a challenge to write a sentence that uses all 26 letters of the alphabet. If they can't do it, then they should be able to get close. A couple kids accomplished the feat in class, so their challenge is to use as few total letters in their sentence as possible, yet still have all 26.
No specials tomorrow, so we should get into some real nitty-gritty. Good stuff.
Have a great night and thanks for reading,
Mr. Shea
Most of the class brought in sneakers for gym today. Hopefully we'll have 100% of the kids with sneakers for next Wednesday. Ms. D'Agostino is a great physical education teacher with a real knack for introducing games and activities that coincide with many of the real world lessons that we are teaching in our regular classrooms.
We will usually only have one special on Wednesday's, but we were treated to an extra library session by Mrs. Sairio this afternoon. Our regular library day will be Monday. (I sent a class schedule home with your child tonight.) In fourth grade we only get our library special once every two weeks, so today's session saved us from a much longer wait before our first library class.
We had some great news stories reported on this morning. It was an impressive array of topics. Interestingly enough, not one was on the Democratic National Convention. I'm kidding. Hopefully they will get a little more interested in the election, however, as they learn more about government.
I appreciate the help at home. Many of you signed the assignment books and I would love if you would keep doing that. It is also a good spot to jot down a quick message to me, if you would like. Unfortunately, your homework is not over. A health update form was mistakenly omitted from your packet last night. Please get that back to me when you can.
We spent some time on place value this morning. We played with cubes, rods and flats. These are plastic blocks used to represent numbers. (One cubic cm represents one.) We did some counting by ones, tens, hundreds and thousands with a focus on counting correctly without saying the word "and" in the middle of a number. When saying a number, the word and means that the rest of the number will be less than one (as in three and one quarter). We put together a visual representation of these numbers using the blocks. We also built a giant cube out of PVC pipes to represent one million. We went outside with tape measures to visualize even higher numbers. My favorite line of the day came during the time outside when I heard someone say, "You've got to blog about this!"
The two homework pieces tonight should be relatively fun. One is easy: put two different items in a small bag that represent things that are important to you. Tomorrow we will take a look at the bags and try to guess what the items represent and who brought them in. The other homework is a challenge to write a sentence that uses all 26 letters of the alphabet. If they can't do it, then they should be able to get close. A couple kids accomplished the feat in class, so their challenge is to use as few total letters in their sentence as possible, yet still have all 26.
No specials tomorrow, so we should get into some real nitty-gritty. Good stuff.
Have a great night and thanks for reading,
Mr. Shea
Tuesday, September 4, 2012
First Day of School
Hello and welcome to my blog,
I hope your child came home excited about our year of learning that we will have together. I'm enthused by the class energy. Some was a little misdirected, but that is my job. I would rather have energy than a bunch of bumps on a log.
I look forward to meeting all of you. My name is Steve Shea and this is my seventh year teaching in Brunswick. I live in Woolwich with my wife, Erika. And to date myself... I went to Bates College before the internet hit. I think you could say that my area of expertise is math, but I love teaching children because elementary teachers get to teach all subjects.
This blog is the best tool that I have found to keep you updated on the happenings at school. Please contact me if you ever have any questions or suggestions that might make it better. My hope is that it will give you some common ground to start conversations with your child.
The first big change for the year is that we are no longer using lunch cards. Students will be lining up for lunch according to classroom teacher. As they pass through the line, they will give their name. A food service worker will immediately debit the student's account. This will speed up much of the classroom procedure. Hopefully it will be quicker for our lunch workers as well.
I gave the class a quick rundown of where we are headed in the next couple weeks. We are going to create a class government. I want them to make our class laws. HBS school rules will be our constitution. We are also going to start a classroom economy. The students will have jobs. They will be renting their desks. My hope is that most of them will come to buy their own desks and thus avoid the hefty rent payment every month. Jobs range from bankers to sanitation engineers, postmasters to librarians, line engineers to administative assistants. My inspiration for the classroom economy is Rafe Esquith, author of Teach Like Your Hair is on Fire, and Ms. Thayer, fellow reader and fourth grade teacher. Please ask your child what jobs they are applying for and who they used for a reference.
We will be jumping into the new math program, Math in Focus, tomorrow. Unless your child goes to Mr. Steven's gifted program, I will be your child's math teacher for the forseeable future. There is a moratorium on math grouping which was imposed on Thursday of last week.
I wanted to get this done before 5:30 so I need to wrap up. Our special tomorrow is Physical Education. Please remind your child to wear or bring sneakers. I promise to get our class schedule out to you tomorrow or Thursday. I think we worked out some kinks today, but I'm going to look at that now.
Have a great night. Thank you so much for reading. My cell is 841-2599 if you want to talk to me. My email is sshea@brunswick.k12.me.us .
Mr. Shea
I hope your child came home excited about our year of learning that we will have together. I'm enthused by the class energy. Some was a little misdirected, but that is my job. I would rather have energy than a bunch of bumps on a log.
I look forward to meeting all of you. My name is Steve Shea and this is my seventh year teaching in Brunswick. I live in Woolwich with my wife, Erika. And to date myself... I went to Bates College before the internet hit. I think you could say that my area of expertise is math, but I love teaching children because elementary teachers get to teach all subjects.
This blog is the best tool that I have found to keep you updated on the happenings at school. Please contact me if you ever have any questions or suggestions that might make it better. My hope is that it will give you some common ground to start conversations with your child.
The first big change for the year is that we are no longer using lunch cards. Students will be lining up for lunch according to classroom teacher. As they pass through the line, they will give their name. A food service worker will immediately debit the student's account. This will speed up much of the classroom procedure. Hopefully it will be quicker for our lunch workers as well.
I gave the class a quick rundown of where we are headed in the next couple weeks. We are going to create a class government. I want them to make our class laws. HBS school rules will be our constitution. We are also going to start a classroom economy. The students will have jobs. They will be renting their desks. My hope is that most of them will come to buy their own desks and thus avoid the hefty rent payment every month. Jobs range from bankers to sanitation engineers, postmasters to librarians, line engineers to administative assistants. My inspiration for the classroom economy is Rafe Esquith, author of Teach Like Your Hair is on Fire, and Ms. Thayer, fellow reader and fourth grade teacher. Please ask your child what jobs they are applying for and who they used for a reference.
We will be jumping into the new math program, Math in Focus, tomorrow. Unless your child goes to Mr. Steven's gifted program, I will be your child's math teacher for the forseeable future. There is a moratorium on math grouping which was imposed on Thursday of last week.
I wanted to get this done before 5:30 so I need to wrap up. Our special tomorrow is Physical Education. Please remind your child to wear or bring sneakers. I promise to get our class schedule out to you tomorrow or Thursday. I think we worked out some kinks today, but I'm going to look at that now.
Have a great night. Thank you so much for reading. My cell is 841-2599 if you want to talk to me. My email is sshea@brunswick.k12.me.us .
Mr. Shea
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