Heavy? Profound? Silly?
Did you know that the universe was created in the time it takes to make a sandwich? ALL matter was condensed to this very tiny spot, not in space. There was no space yet. Not in time. There was no time yet. Read all about it in Bill Bryson's book A Short History of Nearly Everything.
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I was talking to a student on the playground before school and she said she was vascillating between two songs to sing in the Variety Show. I asked her where she learned the word valilate. She said,"In your class last year. :)
We thank the parents that came to parent orientation and I especially want to thank the parents who support and emprace high standards, support excellence, and support hard and challenging academic work.
In language arts we graded the reading sheets, took the reading test, and took the spelling test we should have taken yesterday because we didn't have time because Mr. Floore was off on a tangent explaining where the percent sign came from. We are reading Being of Two Minds out loud and we are more that half way through the book. We should finish it by the end of next week. Read aloud gives us the chance to work on our listening skills. We can't start taking AR tests until September 15th at the earliest. The good news is that our AR program jumped from 9000 available tests to 130,000!
Students should be studying their flash cards so that they know the definitions of the first thirty words for the vocabulary test.
The edit sentence today was:
(9) 3. Little house on the prairie was wrote by Laura Ingalls Wilder,
(4) it describes the ______________ hopes and joys of pioneer
The journal write today was:
What is your favorite subject in school? Explain why you like it.
Tomorrow we will collect the edit sentences, take an edit quiz, and audit the journals.
On Monday we have a social studies test and the study guides and work sheets are due.
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