The Dahlathon is on

Hello,

The teams are picked.  The books are stacked up in front.  Now it is time to read!!!  Students will be reading books from my favorite children's author, Roald Dahl, from now until vacation.  (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Magic Finger, James and the Giant Peach, Esio Trot, Matilda, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Danny, Champion of the World, and the list goes on.  These are all books that should be read before leaving fourth grade.  Ask your child how our class competition will work.  A lot of books got taken home tonight.  I hope they are well loved.

The Snowy Owl made it to the final four for the first time since I have been holding the WWF adoption tournament.  The Tiger went down by a six vote margin.  The Grizzly Bear takes on the Red Fox in our next quarterfinal matchup. 

Mineral identification is going pretty well.  I hope to get all of their final "best guesses" tomorrow.  Feldspar, quartz and sulfur seemed to be the easiest.  Three different forms of gypsum seem to be throwing them.  I think that we can all agree that mineral identification is a difficult endeavor.

The character stories are coming along nicely.  We'll have to find time for some sharing tomorrow, so they can get some reader feedback.

The Lego Club made some movable pulleys this afternoon.  The power of multiple pulleys is very impressive.  We'll be making a machine that uses pulleys next week and then it will be on to wheels and axles.

My math class struggled a bit on last night's homework.  We had gone over the first couple in class and I thought they understood enough about multiple digit multiplication to get through it easy enough, but it was difficult for them.  Believe it or not, I feel like it was more a misunderstanding of what an equals sign means than anything else.  We went over where we had trouble and the same homework as last night is reassigned for tonight.  It should go more smoothly.

Have a great night.

Mr. Shea

Have a great night.