Chorus concert tonight

Hello,

The homework club just left and the chorus concert starts in one hour.  I hope everyone made it home in time for a bite to eat.  Homework was a limited tonight due to this.  One math class didn't give any and I just gave six problems on greatest common factors.  Come on by the school at 6:30 if you want to hear some festive music.  It still seems early to fa la la to me, but I've always been a procrastinator.

In the WWF adoption elections today, the Snowy Owl took down the Tasmanian Devil quite easily.  The Tiger, with two people speaking in favor of it, (Did you know there are only 3200 left in the world?) beat the Zebra in a very close election.  The Zebra also had a spokesperson.  (I learned that each zebra family (a dozen or so) are led by a zebra stallion.)  Tomorrow pits the Duck-billed Platypus vs. the Amur Leopard.

Students were put into groups of two and three this afternoon and tried to identify whether rocks were igneous, sedimentary or metamorphic.  Overall they did very well.  It is a very tough thing to do.  Tomorrow they will get twelve rock identification cards that describe the rocks that they are working with.  I'm hoping they can match the details of the written cards with the rock specimens that they belong to.  Your child should know the difference between igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic at this point.  They might be able to sing you a song about it. 

Speaking of songs, the continent song looks like it will make it through another year.  The kids have learned it and haven't tried to top it.  They wrote it in cursive this morning for morning work.  I'm having to come up with more limited morning work assignments than I'm used to, now that we are switching for math right at 9:10.  I wish we had a little more class time before rushing off to math, but such is our schedule this year.

I'll see some of you in a half hour at the chorus concert.

Have a good night.

Mr. Shea