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It has been a good start to the week already. Though it is getting so close to summer vacation the students can taste it, they are still working hard on getting those last minute things done. We still have many things to finish. Most important of those are the poetry books. We may get them done and sent in in time but it may not be in time for them to be shipped here. In that case, the students will receive the books in the fall when they return. Tomorrow, students are going to be working on the last poem to go into the book as well as choosing a cover to go on the front of the book. Students will have three votes to use in whatever way they want. The cover with the highest votes will be the one we choose as our front cover. You can see the covers the students can choose from below.

On Thursday, students will be having their constellation party! Students have been learning alot about constellations throughout the unit as well as how to find them in the sky. Today, they got started on creating their own constellations; naming them and writing a little story of how they came to be constellations. On Thursday, students will take those constellations and share them with the rest of the class as we pretend to sit around the campfire (there won’t be a real campfire though, I promise, though Ethan did say he would deal with Mr. Shinness if we did have a real campfire and it set the fire alarms off.

Speaking of campfires, here is a great video for all you parents out there that, I believe, has some important ideas those some of it is tongue in cheek.