Busy busy

Hello,

Sorry for no blog last night.  We had homework club until five.  The last pick-up was at 5:30 and I had to race over to Bowdoin for a basketball practice that went until 8.  The Bowdoin practice schedule is the reason I'm switching over our homework club nights to Thursdays starting next week.

The Harry Potter Sorting Ceremony is in the music room on Friday at 6:30. We still have a lot to do. I hot-glued some tea lights onto tubes after school for our floating candles. Big thanks to Pat for making the tubes look like melted wax has dripped down the sides. Pat is also tackling the chocolate frog production.

With so much still to do, kids can stay after tomorrow (Thursday) until 5:00 to help with prep. It is a bit of a homework club, but I'll have real tasks to get accomplished after the homework is complete. Parents are welcome to come help. Same drill on Friday. Students can stay after, parents are welcome too. I'm hoping to get a volunteer to go on a pizza run around five fifteenish so the kids don't drop before the ceremony.

We had a nice walk to the polls yesterday. I've never seen such a long line to cast ballots. Good for Brunswick. We had our own class elections. We have a new congress and a new president and vice. Ask your child if they ran for office and bravo to them if they did.

We've moved our seating around to get the house, senate, and white house officials together.  All remaining citizens are gainfully employed by the class newspaper.  An editor in chief and an assistant was chosen to lead our reporters and writers.

I've got to run.  Thanks for reading.  And thanks for pushing the blog over the 16,000 page view mark! We've come a long way from my first year of class blogging where I hardly got anyone to read it. I stopped typing it that year after I requested anyone who read a post to email me to let me know if it was worth my time.  I got one email... and it was from a teacher.

Have a good night,

Mr. Shea