I don’t know if anyone is going to see this, but I thought I would put it on here for everyone!

As reported by the Speed of Creativity site, the space shuttle discovery is taking off today. You can watch the whole thing going down RIGHT NOW!!!! Go to their site! Click here!

As the title suggests, summer is a coming! It sure was a beautiful day today. It is hard to believe that summer is almost here and with it the end of the school year. We still have lots left to do. Please do not set any holidays during the last few weeks as we have a busy time of tests and finishing assignments.

Today was a fun day and the students got to make Ice Cream in our class. Not sure I would do that project again as it was very messy but the kids sure had fun and the ice cream didn’t turn out half badly either.

There was no home letter today but students do have a Basic Facts test next Tuesday which they should be practicing for. If you would like some pages to practice with you can use the Math Fact Cafe to make up some worksheets for them to practice on.

Have a great weekend!

Well tonights the night. Spring is in the air and the Spring Spectrum is the perfect place to be to celebrate. Come and join our wonderful singers and musicians. Apparently, an art show might just break out as well. So keep your eyes peeled for that. Something for all the senses! Students should be in the class by 6:45 tonight.

We also finished off some poetry work in Language Arts and did the next 10 words for our spelling. The spelling words can be found in the last post under this one.

In Math, we went back and did some review work on multiplying numbers as the students still are not sure on how the process works. Combining that with our work on rounding also confused them a little. Consequently, we spent some time going over the concepts again to make sure the students understand everything. I am working on some voicethreads to help students with this concept.

For Science we worked on a quiz today on distances of objects in space. I think the students did quite well which is reassuring. We followed that with making Mars Polar Landers. I was able to find a pattern that we could fold and make our own Polar Lander. Inserting a balloon allows it to float and land on a surface just like the actual Mars Polar Lander ( though of course that didn’t use a balloon).

We’ll see all of you tonight!

Devotion:

O give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever. Oh give thanks to the God of gods, for his steadfast love endures forever. Oh give thanks to the Lord of lords, for his steadfast love endures forever. Psalm 136:1-3

All the students were very excited this morning to tell me the news about the new Mars craft landing on the surface of Mars. Called the Mars Polar Lander this spacecraft is different from the previous machines as it does not move. Instead it will stay in one spot and do research on whether there is water there and whether there is any kind of life. There is lot of information on their website at Phoenix Mars Mission. Here are some of the videos.

If you go to these sites, you can download some images and make your own animotos. We will then put them on the blog if they turn out. Part of their homework tonight is to think of a question to ask the scientists.

We also previewed a new game which is very addicting, challenging and takes a great deal of logic and brains. There are some ads on the site though so please do not click on the ads. The game is called Magic Pen.

The rest of the day went very well. We are continuing with our poetry unit. However, we are just reading some poems now. Today we read a Robert Louis Stevenson poem about going to bed in summer. The students were really able to relate to the poem. We also had a look at the first 10 spelling words for the week. Here are the spelling words:

If you haven’t been in our class lately, you probably have not noticed our neat Stick figures. Inspired by Alberto Giacometti, these stick figures represent and action from a picture the students brought in to class. Alberto Giacometti originally designed bronze figures much the same as ours as a way to characterize the anonymous interactions people have everyday in a city. As he sat watching people in a busy city square, he noticed that no one was talking to each other or even acknowledging each others existence. He created his own city square to represent that feeling. Here is his famous sculpture.

After we had studied some of his sculptures, we designed our own using pipe cleaners and tin foil. I think they came out very nicely as you can see below.

Hello everyone!! It’s Bob here. I know you haven’t heard from me for awhile and Mr. H (my brother) said that you were getting worried for me. That is very kind of you! I didn’t think anyone would miss me. But Mr. H (my brother) has been telling me all sorts of things about you all and you sound like a very nice group of children. Very kind and considerate. Anyway, when I talked to Mr. H (my brother), he said I should try to write a blog post on this fantastic blog my brother has going for you. He also said that I should explain why it has been so long since you have head from me.

As you know, I was doing some cattle rustling. In other words, I was moving cattle from one ranch to the other across the great plains of Texas. It was quite a trip. Needless to say that there were no telephones or anything to call my brother so we were out of touch for quite awhile. But you should have seen the stars in the  sky . They were so beautiful. You can’t imagine how many stars there are in the sky until you go out to some deserted place  and see them without all the lights of the city.  I think the only bad part was that our cook was not a very  good. Actually, let’s just say he was bad. You know, beans every night and morning and lunch just doesn’t fulfill a person. It also gives you a few other problems but I won’t get into that . . .

Anyway, here’s a picture of me on the cattle drive. It was a wild experience. There were three other guys with me. Hank, Billy and Sally.  I don’t know why he was called Sally and he didn’t want to tell us. In fact he didn’t talk at all the whole time. He was a bit weird. The other two guys were nice but kept stealing my boots at night and hiding them. They thought it was funny but it got very annoying especially when they hid them in the stream. I got them back though. One night I tied their ankles to the saddle of one of the horses and in the morning, before they woke up, I slapped the horse on the rump. Needless to say, woke up pretty quickly!!! It was very funny and they didn’t steal my boots after that.

Anyway, I’m wondering what to do next. Mr. H (my brother) says I should come home and meet all of you but I’m not sure. I don’t think my brother’s wife likes me too much especially after I tried to give the cat a haircut. I ended up shaving the cat’s hair all off. She was not happy with me. I said, at least it’s not shedding anymore and now my brother doesn’t sneeze all the time. Problem solved you know! I’m a problem solver!!!

So anyway, I’d like you all to give me some reasons to come back. Leave a comment here with at least 5 reasons I should come home and meet you all.

Talk to you soon!

Devotion:

The earth is the Lord’s and all that is in it, the world, and those who live in it. Psalm 24:1

Mr. Beynon also came by today and showed us a neat way to create tornado with two pop bottles and blue-dyed water. Basically, take two pop bottles, glue the caps together, drill a hole through the two caps, put the water with the dye into one of the two bottles and screw the lids back on. Finally, flip the bottles over and swirl them around until you get tornado going. Cool! I’m glad I’m not swimming in there though!!!!

It was one of those days where everything you plan goes out the window. We had lots we were going to do but it got put to the side as we focused on getting our poems done for the book. It took us all day but we are one day closer to having our published book. As the students finished up any remaining poems that needed to be finished, we also looked at various covers to bind our books in and staring thinking of titles. So far we have a very creative list of titles including:

This is going to be a busy week for us in 3B. We are going to get our poems read to be published. I am very excited as are the students. One of the things we have to do is decide on which cover we want to use. I have put a number of choices below to choose from. We will be voting on which cover to use in class. This should be an interesting experience. Here they are:

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