Tough week for blogging

Hello,

My apologies about last night.  I got out of Harry Potter Book Club and then went to the parent group meeting.  I wanted to hear how the report card was presented to the parent group.  I'm hoping that our conferences will be able to keep the focus on the children and not the new report card.  Conference slips went home tonight, but I can see next to me that four didn't make it home. 

I've made a poster of a giant football field to measure our multiplication successes.  Each student has an individual football with their name on it.  As students master a set of numbers (their fours, for example) they will move down the field toward a touchdown.  Students can opt for oral or written tests.  Each test includes questions from previous tests.  This means that just because a person is testing their five times tables doesn't mean that they won't see some fours, threes, twos or ones.  Help them practice at home please.

Students picked out areas of the country where they would like a penpal.  I will be taking their final draft letters and mailing them to schools across the country in those areas.  We had requests for fifteen different states and Washington D.C. 

We sang the Rock Cycle song for the second time today.  A couple more times and it will be memorized like the continent song.  Ask for either song tonight, although I'd be surprised if anyone has this one down yet.

Rock Cycle Song
(Sing to the tune of "Row, Row, Row Your Boat")

SEDIMENTARY rock
Has been formed in layers
Often found near water sources
With fossils from decayers

Then there's IGNEOUS rock
Here since Earth was born
Molten Lava, cooled and hardened
That's how it is formed

These two types of rocks
Can also be transformed
With pressure, heat and chemicals
METAMORPHIC they'll become.

I've got math grades to do, so I'm gonna call it a night.

Thanks for reading.

Mr. Shea