Well, it has been a pretty crazy week since Spring Break ended. This week we have to head full throttle into the material we still have to cover, but mostly reviewing what we’ve done this year so far. I hope everyone is ready, because from here on out, it’s pretty much a roller coaster.
First off, I wanted to thank the moms for helping with the trip to the Indianapolis Museum of Art the other day. This was a great trip, and the kids--at least the kids in my immediate group, but seemingly the others too--enjoyed the experience to go and look at the different artists and ethnic artifacts from all over the world.
Second of all, we had a visit from Buckeye and Hollowbones on Thursday. Buckeye and Hollowbones are two ladies from out in the wilderness of a long time ago. They share the ways of the backwoods with the kids in a very entertaining way. I’m always impressed at how these two can do such a great job of keeping the kids’ interest with their stories and strange lingo. All I know is that these ladies are incredible conveyors of a time that, in the grand scheme of things, was just yesterday.
MATH
In my Math class recently, we’ve been working a lot with decimals and computation. Be on the lookout for my summer math packet that the kids can be working on throughout the summer. I told them that before they go into “seventh grade math” in middle school, they’re going to have to have quite a few things mastered. We’ve been feverishly going over these things lately (if your child tells you they have no homework these days--except for Fridays--they’re most likely “mistaken”). Look for a summer packet to come home to help you keep them refreshed during those weeks before sixth grade begins.
READING
This week, we’ll be doing quite a bit in reading. We’ll be heading to the computer lab during the half day on Wednesday to do a Criterion writing project, and we’ll be reading a short book on how to build a greenhouse during most of this week.
In addition to all this, we’ll be having Spelling as usual, and there is of course a quiz for Caesar’s English on Wednesday morning.
Bits of Business
·This weekend, I thought of a way anyone can help me out if they still want to. Because of some personal business, I’ve been unable to fulfill my duties as captain of Team Woodbrook for this year’s Relay for Life at Carmel High School over June 7-8, 2008. Relay for Life is a fundraiser for the American Cancer Society. As someone who has even within the past week dealt with the horrible reality of cancer, I’m sure many of you have dealt with this harrowing disease. If anyone would be interested in helping, I’d like to set up an fundraiser any time between now and then. I was thinking we could do a carwash, but I was hoping someone out there could help me out with the logistics. I don’t know anyone who could set this up for us. I was thinking the kids from my class could help by coming out for it (of course I would be there) and helping wash cars or something like that. Maybe you have a better idea. Anything. Please give me a call if you have any ideas or connections that could help with this.
“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say ‘I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ You must do the thing you think you cannot.”
--Eleanor Roosevelt
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