Building Day tomorrow

Hello,

I'm hoping for some Rube Goldberg machines tomorrow. We started working on them today, but didn't have the time that we will tomorrow. Come on in any time between 1:00 and 3:00 and see what we are up to. We got off to a very slow start today, and I blame myself. The idea is to build a small Rube Goldberg machine and then connect it to others. I had warned them that the connecting will be the most difficult part. Of course, that's what many of them rushed to do. Unfortunately, they didn't have much done except giant ramps. They forgot the initial step of building their own functioning machine first. I believe this question came out of my mouth, "Are you trying to connect your bunch of nothing to their bunch of nothing?" We'll try again tomorrow.

I haven't been able to change the superintendent's graduation speech over to a word document. I'm not going to retype it. I still have hope that I'll get help.

We have a retirement gathering tonight. Mary Kornegay is retiring after 30+ years as a school secretary. I'll miss her unique way of running the office. Joanne Olson is retiring from 3rd grade. She has been a voice of reason on our staff, and I'll miss her too. The final retiree is Kay Reddy. She works with the lower grades, so I don't have much interaction with her, but she has always been a friendly face at HBS.

I've got to run to the gathering, but I hope to see you tomorrow afternoon. Our room is a complete mess of marbles, wood, Legos, dominoes, Knex, and random pieces of wood. Tomorrow should be a lot of fun.

Have a good night.

Mr. Shea