Hello,
I felt like the NWEA math test went alright. I wanted to pull my hair out when a student answered that 1+3+5 was equal to 2+4+6, but that wouldn't help anything. I think on the whole, they tried to do well. A few couldn't overcome their desire to get it over with, but again, most gave a solid effort. I can't fault them for missing the fraction, decimal, and probability questions because we haven't covered that yet. We'll get there.
We continued biography work and animal research today. We are in the tedious stages of the research report. They are itching to start writing, but they don't have all of the info that they need. Spelling words went out. Test on Friday. We had a discussion about the difference between all ready and already. We had the discussion already, but I don't think that they were all ready to learn it then.
We are reading Swindle by Gordon Korman as the class read aloud on the recommendation of Mrs. Dorr. It is a bit of a mystery. Two boys get swindled out of a million dollar baseball card by a disreputable dealer and they plan on stealing it back. I introduced the term "red herring" this afternoon. Ask your son or daughter about it. I plan on doing a little mystery unit later, so it is nice to introduce some of the terms.
I forgot to tell you, but our penny count for Pennies for Peace came to $33.09. I hope no pennies have disappeared from my desk since we counted. I'll write a check out in the amount and take the pennies to a machine. It isn't worth my time to roll them all. I tried to roll a bunch with last year's class, but ended up with a bunch of uneven rolls. I'll let coinstar do the work.
Thank you for reading,
Mr. Shea
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