Island building tomorrow

Hello,

Sorry about no blog yesterday.  My wife and I are staying down in Georgetown this week and I had to get home to see friends from Maryland. We were also celebrating my mother-in-law's birthday.  I rushed out of here when I realized that it was close to 7:00.

Our island plans are made.  We currently have eleven batches of play dough made.  I'm hoping for at least 23, so any and all is welcome.  Thank you to everyone who has donated thus far or is planning on making a batch or two tonight. The recipes are on Monday night's blog.

Book order notices went home yesterday with a special five dollar book voucher. I bought these last year, but between my lack of organization skills, summer birthdays and overall incompetence on my part, over half of the vouchers expired without being handed out. My solution to that is to not wait around for birthdays and to use them before I lose them. So "Happy Birthday!" to everyone in the class. Don't expect anything later. The voucher is for one book, five dollars or less, and cannot be used as a coupon for a more expensive book. Our next book order will be made next Sunday.

I want to remind you that this is a four day weekend for your child. No school on Friday due to a teacher's workshop.  No school on Monday due to Christopher Columbus.

Idea books were passed out today in literacy. These are blank books that many authors, including past visiting author Jack Gantos, highly recommend for all writers. Ask your child some of the ideas that they wrote in their books today.

We spent a math class estimating area.  Yesterday we spent more time estimating distances. Tomorrow we'll add the third dimension and do some volume estimation.

The homework tonight is a dot to dot. It is a unique one in that it reinforces some of our map skill work. Each dot is a coordinate.

Tomorrow should be a fun day of creation. It is time to show off what they have learned. If all I see are mountains and volcanoes, I won't be impressed.

Have a good night.

Mr. Shea