School pictures tomorrow

Hello,

It is spirit week at HBS.  Today was hat day. We made hats this morning out of construction paper. Tomorrow is dress up day (due to picture day).  Wednesday is school color day (blue and green). Thursday is stripes and polka dots day. Friday is Black and Orange day to help celebrate BHS Homecoming Weekend.

We had our first school assembly of the year this afternoon. Safety, respect and responsibility were talked about. Bobcat awards were explained and handed out. Students were also reminded of the daily themes of our spirit week.

We made islands of paper and then dripped water on them.  The water was dyed with some blue food coloring so we could see it better. The goal was for us to learn where water runs (downhill), and where streams, rivers and lakes would form. Our droppers were the "rain clouds".  We will be making play dough islands in the near future and inaccurate placement of rivers and lakes is a common mistake.  Water erosion experiments start tomorrow.  These are some of my favorite lessons. Light bulbs will come on tomorrow.

We're going to jump into some fairy tales, legends, myths, fables and tall tales in reading class.  Ask your child what a genre is. I'll be bringing in many of my fifty year old Illustrated Classic Juniors for the unit. I will trust everyone to keep my collection intact. I think the kids are going to be very excited about our reading and science the next few days couple of weeks.  More info to follow.

We took the chap 2 pretest in math.  I'll correct that tonight and see where we need to begin in rounding and estimation. Less fun than the science, but I've got some unique ways to teach it.

Homework club tomorrow.  I wonder if our K'nex machines will grow another foot.  Should be fun.

I've still got a tickle in my throat and some watery eyes.  It is definitely allergy related.  Just in time for school pics. I'll wear my best bags under my eyes tomorrow.

Have a good night.

Mr. Shea