Week Seven

Dear Journeymen Families,

What a fun day of getting a real perspective on the structure of our planets in relation to the sun using inflatable balls. Feeling pretty hot there, Mercury & Venus, huh? We also had a fun time of shopping in the class store at the end of the day. It's interesting to discover who the spenders and who the savers are. I'm trying to give opportunities for both with the most 'expensive' prize being a lunch from either Chick-Fil-A or McDonald's being purchased by me ($60). We'll see if anyone takes me up on it! Make sure the kids fill in their Learning Logs so that the cash keeps flowing! Remember that they can fill in the blanks and the initials; parents only need to sign the bottom front. The third log sheet was due last week, but it can definitely be turned in this coming week to show practices from October 6th-18th.

Our presentations were fantastic this week! We enjoyed hearing about rip tides from Katie (everyone got to pick out a shell as well), eating Maren's scrumptious mint candies that she made for us, seeing Hope perform some gymnastics that made her seem like rubber, eating homemade butter by Peytra, hearing Gabe describe and demonstrate the four swimming strokes, and watching Ryan build a Lego speeder. Great job! Next week we will move forward with Putting it all Together and hearing about topics from a unique perspective. See your red folder for some ideas, but certainly feel free to present what works for your family. I do have one request: our presenting schedule has changed a bit due to various circumstances, which is understandable, and I do want to be flexible. However, our schedule now is Meredith one week, and everyone else the next, which makes it difficult to fit in all the material! If Ryan and Hope can join Meredith in presenting this Tuesday, that would be fantastic. Let me know if this is a problem.

Memory Tips:
Science- We sang 5 kinds of stars to Twinkle, Twinkle which may be helpful.

Twinkle, twinkle, five kinds of stars
How I wonder what they are?
Giants, Dwarfs, Variable
Novas, Neutron
A galaxy-full
Twinkle, twinkle, five kinds of stars
Now I know just what they are!

Latin- It was tough this week with the V/W! It was almost more confusing to look at the board and be tempted to pronounce the V. Next week I will bring some picture memory tools that focus on the W sound (ie. amavi= picture of a Wii remote). I think that will help the kids to get in the W groove.

Have a great week of learning!

Mrs. Shaw