International News

Hello,

I'm hoping to start videoing our international news teams tomorrow.  France, Finland, Morocco, Turkey, Argentina and Mongolia are the countries represented. I was disappointed to have to disqualify the New Zealand news team for consistent poor decisions. Their team has been split up to help out with some of the other countries. I am hoping to be able to show our news casts as early as next week.

My math class will take their angles test tomorrow.  We've gone ahead quite a bit from angles, so were backing up and using this as a review of some geometry basics before we forge ahead again. I realized too late today that their two-sided homework was only one-sided.  Lucky them, I guess.

Our next two days will be heavy on the international studies work.  We need to power through these videos to get to my favorite unit: simple machines.  Get the Legos out!

Ask your child about their writing.  They should have a Harris Burdick story or a poem or two appearing shortly, depending on what they are working on.  We need to finish some products!  This starting something new everyday thing is stopping now.  It is a great strategy to never have to edit or revise, but it is so fourth grade. We're nearly fifth graders now. Step it up, ten year olds!.

My wife is home from the NYC Stationery Show.  I wrote that to prove that I knew the difference between stationary and stationery.

I'll end on that high note.

Have a good night.

Mr. Shea