August 29, 2011

Oh my goodness!  The math homework was way harder than what we worked on in class today.  I told the kids who asked about it to just NOT do it!!  Good grief!  We'll pick up again tomorrow.  Mental math...gotta love it!  We had a war in English over dependent and independent clauses.  We made a new science contraption today.  It's like a catapult.  We tried seeing how high we could launch an aluminum foil ball, but we were too loud and had to go back to our seats :( We'll do better tomorrow.  In social studies, we are studying the three regions of Tennessee.  After listening to Island of the Blue Dolphins, Mrs. Wilson passed around the comprehension beach ball.  Some of the favorite parts of the story were:  When Karana built the wall out of bones and when she killed the wild dogs.