Good day

Hello,

I think we had one of our better days.  We wrote some very entertaining book commercials.  Students were trying to "sell" their favorite picture books.  We heard some very energetic rants about how terrific some books were.  It was very funny and we had some great energy in the classroom.

I think some of that energy came out of another successful Harry Potter Club meeting.  The club decided to have to say a password to be granted entry to the classroom during meetings.  I can't tell you what the password is, but I can tell you that you'd never guess it in a million years.  The club discussed our after school meeting on Friday.  Twenty-one members have already turned in signed permission slips to stay after to create Hogwarts banners.  I am providing juice, fruit, and crackers, and two students have volunteered to make some special treats from the Harry Potter cookbook.

My math class is rolling along with multiplication.  I am excited about how far this group should be able to go.  We have a great energy in the class.  Some may say a little rambunctious, but I say, "Give me the energy, I'll channel it."  We were joined by Pete from Bowdoin College.  He will be helping out once or twice a week. 

In our continuing study of parts of speech, we took on the verb, be.  We focused on am, is and are.  These come very natural to a classroom of talkers.  Tonight's homework is about past tense.  I didn't get much of a chance to introduce the homework, (3:25 snuck up on me again), but I don't think it is too difficult.  Either way, we'll go over it tomorrow.

I introduced our rocks and minerals unit.  Full speed ahead tomorrow.

All for now.  Have a good night.

Mr. Shea