Pretty good

Hello,

We had a pretty good day.  Our Roald Dahl readathon begins tonight.  Three teams have been selected.  The idea is to read as many books as possible from the scrumdillyicious author.  The top team will get to choose a movie that has been made based on one of his books and we'll watch it during my available lunch times.  It is a two week competition, ending on our last day of school before the winter break, Thursday the 22nd. 

Our extended day numbers doubled this week.  Every Monday, class members are invited to stay after and get some extra help on homework and then do some fun science.  We continued our crystal growing this afternoon, but had some time for some other experiments which included dropping things down the stairwell.  I don't think we got all of the answers, but learned a bit about gravity and aerodynamics. 

Students are creating summaries to accompany mini paper dioramas of the beginning, middle, and end of their individual reading stories.  This should only take a couple of days and you should see them come home soon, due to a lack of display space in my room.  (Okay, I've already taken up that space with my stuff.) 

Half the library got reorganized as I am trying to prepare for the new classroom workforce.  Were going to review some of the rocks and minerals stuff that didn't quite get stuck in their heads the first time through, before moving on to jobs and government. 

Ask your child to use a word as a noun and then the same word as a verb.  We have spent a couple of sessions on it.  Let's see if they can come up with some on their own.

Have a good night,

Mr. Shea