Useful Detritus, Somehow

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A few tidbits here:

• The kids should have their hardback book for Math at home with them tonight. They have an assignment involving shape terminology and they will need to have it with them to check a couple definitions. One student asked if it was okay to use the online version of the textbook, and I told them that was fine as well. They have two pages of homework for that due tomorrow.
  
• There is a Math test tomorrow also. This will be a pretty simple test if they know their basics for finding the area of a circle, algebraic expressions (I told them that part will be partially matching), finding the circumference of a circle, radius vs. diameter, and finding simple unit rates. I realize that this is a bit of a mixed-up chapter, and that's why I'm making this test fairly easy.
  
• Meaning Exercise is due tomorrow!
  
• In Reading today, we read a story called June 29, 1999 by David Weisner. It's an excellent story about giant vegetables. I read them a couple of other Weisner books after that, just because I had almost forgotten about him. Here's one of his illustrations: