Happy Monday

Hello,

There are still two full weeks before vacation, but the kids are doing well to keep their focus.  We jumped in to mineral identification today.  Students have 15 minerals and are writing down their observations in seven categories: feel, color, streak, hardness, light, luster, and shape.  They should be able to explain all seven of those mineral properties to you.  They will continue to write down their observations tomorrow.  They have streak plates, pennies, and nails to do their testing.  Later I will take away the minerals and give them mineral identification cards.  We'll see how many of them can identify them based on their writing. 

I had a class of enthusiastic writers this afternoon.  The students created characters last week and now have been paired up to write stories that have their characters in it.  Some are writing together.  Some are writing individually.  We have some odd character pairings which should make for some interesting scenarios. 

The Harry Potter Club is meeting after school on Friday to make house banners.  Here is the permission slip that went home tonight:

Harry Potter Book Club

 

The Harry Potter Book Club will be gathering after school on Friday, December 14th from 3:30 to 5:00.  We will be creating our house banners.  The meeting will be sprinkled with occasional trivia questions about the first book and prizes will be awarded.  Refreshments will be provided, but if crackers, fruit, and fruit juice doesn’t work for your child, could you please send them in with their own snack?  This meeting is completely optional.  Please sign below to let me that your child has permission to stay. 

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Please fill in one:

 

____________________ will stay after school on Friday, Dec. 14 

 

Parent’s Signature_______________________________ 

 

I'm not sure if you can see all of that, but I'm done fooling around with it trying to make it fit.

The Black Jaguar was the second big cat in a row to go down in our WWF adoption elections.  The Grizzly Bear was the big winner today.  The Red Fox beat the Leopard on Friday.  Tomorrow's election will pit the Grey Wolf vs. the Komodo Dragon.  The last of the final eight will be decided on Wednesday with the Emerald Hummingbird going up against the Cheetah.  Has your child supported any of the victors thus far?

Thanks for reading.  Have a great night.

Mr. Shea