Going bananas

Hello,

I couldn't let it go.  A couple of students had beat my Banana Monkey score and I felt the need to show some brain power.  I played a bunch of times just before writing this.  The kids will see photographic proof of the NEW high score tomorrow.  I should feel guilty that I can't let them win, but I don't.

It reminds me of the time in high school when my uncle was my math teacher, (the only year my father wasn't my math teacher in high school).  My uncle boasted that he had memorized pi out to ten places.  I knew it out to eleven places the next day.  That was my competitive nature.  I told that story at Jordan Acres to my fourth graders.  A girl learned it to twelve by the next day.  I was confident of it out to twenty places at that time, (knowledge long since gone, by the way) so I let her know that. In the next week, she learned it to 45 places!  I kid you not.  She won.  I usually don't go down without a fight, but I surrendered on that one immediately.

I wanted to thank Mr. Merrill for coming in to show us some of his World War II memorabilia. He was great with the kids and I was happy with the many questions that his collection generated from the class.

HBS now has a laptop cart downstairs. All carts used to be upstairs which made it really difficult for downstairs classes to use.  Our class has now been frequent users of the laptops.  We've used them for writing class and for research.  It is often tough to get a spot in the computer lab, so the laptops give us another option.

Your child may be a little tired coming home tonight.  Our class took part in the "pacer test" in PE today.  It basically is a how far can you run test.  Kids go back and forth in the gym for as long as they can,  Their is a time component in that you can't go at a walking pace.  Some kids really pushed themselves.  Well done!

Homework club tomorrow night.  No Harry Potter on Thursday night due to the early release.  No school on Friday.

Thanks,

Mr. Shea