Early release tomorrow

Hello,

Confirmed strep case number ten in our class today.  Luckily we had a couple return from the sidelines, so I'm still fielding a full team.  We need that vacation to reset the germ level around here.

We had a nice day.  My math class did a lot of mental math.  Our homeroom heard from Bicycle Bob in their P.E. class.  The Harry Potter club started discussing the third book: The Prisoner of Azkaban.  We talked about rhyming and rhythm in our poetry session.  Science was fantastic, with everyone hard at work building machines.  Some were discovering advantages and disadvantages of fixed axles with the help of Legos.  Others, worked at assembling wheeled machines (a carousel and a roller coaster) with our new K'nex sets.  We may have an entire K'nex midway in here before too long.

Don't forget: Early release tomorrow.  No Lego club.

Book orders went home on Monday.  If you order through the website www.scholastic.com/bookclubs and use our class code, J36TM, you'll get a five dollar coupon for next month's order.  The class also gets 3.00 worth of free books for every online order.  Thank you for those.  I asked the kids to choose their favorite choices on the current book orders. Oz and 101 Animal Records were the only choices to get more than two votes and so I'll order those for the class.  I was amazed at the variety of the class choices.  Each student picked five books and yet only nine books got more than one vote. 

This will probably be my last blog until we come back from vacation.  Thank you for continuing to emphasize the importance of reading with your kids.  I look forward to seeing the reading logs.

Have a great April vacation,

Mr. Shea