Band concert tonight

Hello,


The band concert for fifth graders starts at 6:30.  If you're reading this on Thursday evening, you better get moving if you want to make it. 


Homework club just finished.  We had a variety of activities going on once the math and reading got done.  Board games, basketball (knock out), hockey, bowling, and a Lego movie shoot were going on all at once.  They have gained some pretty tight friendships in the class and it is nice to see.


In science today, the class got in the center of the lobby and played the role of the sun as individual students ran around us to represent the planets.  Mercury went around in 4 seconds, Venus 11, and Earth 17.  These were all approximations based on the actual times they take to go around the sun. Mars took 33 seconds, although we had to slow the God of War down a few times.  Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune never made it around, but would have if I had given them 6 min, 16 min, 46 min and 92 minutes respectively.


In math we finished up a little test for data purposes.  You'll see them come home tomorrow.


We read the last half of the Illustrated Classic Comic Robinson Crusoe.  Hard to believe that that book was written in 1719.  Lots of great action and suspense.  I hope this will spur some readers on to the full novel in the near future.  For our purposes, it will now help with our current reading selections, since it is referenced time and again.


I hope to see you at the concert.   Thanks for reading.


Mr. Shea