Open house is tomorrow night at HBS from 6 to 7. Now, for everyone else this is a great time to meet their new teacher and get a good look at the room. For most of us, that is old hat, but I still hope to see a bunch of you tomorrow night. It is a good way to show your child that you value their education and would like to know more about how they spend a major portion of their day.
Our class won't have any major show pieces on display, although I might bring my guitar and show you the second song that I learned last night: Smoke on the Water. It is more like a portion of a song. For those in guitar club, a great link is:
It is the site where Mr. Larrabee learned Mary Had a Little Lamb. Pretty cool that I'm up to two songs.
We had an school wide assembly this afternoon about playground rules. I'm sure your child can give you the exciting details on that.
We spent quite a bit of time on our claims and evidence on what water striders eat and how they walk on water. Our kids live in a strange world where they can google answers to every question that passes their mind. They need to learn to observe and gather evidence to figure things out, because if we only learn from google, where will our next great ideas and new answers come from? I felt a little kick back on this, because some kids just couldn't understand why I didn't just tell them the answers or at least let them look it up. I wanted their ideas to be supported by their observations. In many cases, I saw made up observations and assumptions that made their claims more believable. It is a process to get them to realize that it is the process that is important. We'll continue tomorrow.
We did some number line work in math. We went outside. They drew lines on the sidewalk and labeled the ends and then I had then put other numbers on the line. For example, I'd asked the ends to be 10 and 50 and then ask them to put 44 on the line where they thought it should be. There was lots of work using mid points, and also using the knowledge that equal differences should be equal distances.
Homework club tomorrow.
I hope to see some of you tomorrow night, but don't worry if you can't make it. I'm available most nights after school.
Thanks for reading.
Mr. Shea
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