Progress

Hello,

We did a little pass the story game in writing: Write a sentence and pass it to the next person. There was very impressive progress from our last try during the first week of school. Our biggest issues were changing narration and occasionally getting too far away from the original premise of the story. A majority of the stories, however, were well done and near impossible to tell that they had been written by many different authors. Ahh... growth.

Back to long division in math. Lots of rust, but it was coming back pretty quickly. We have at least five different methods in the classroom, which are all good as long as they work and are understood. You'll see the four problems tonight. Feel free to take a peek.


The Plimoth info sheet didn't come home today as I was hoping. Our fifth grade team proofread and tweaked it today at our team meeting after school. You will see it tomorrow, as well as a permission slip. I've had seven parents show interest in chaperoning. We may need some of you to carpool. I won't be surprised if that number goes up, but we only have room for five parents per classroom on the bus. Let me know if you are willing to drive or ride with another driver. Exciting. 5:30 am. Sharp! We may need some help getting some kids here by 5:30 who can't depend on the bus for this.

Chemical and physical changes in science tomorrow. Always fun.

Off to the sea!

Mr. Shea