Wednesday, May 07, 2008

Space, the final frontier

Well, we started our trip through the universe. The munchkins learned that light travels at 186,400 miles per second and that a light-year is the distance light travels in one year -- that's about 6 trillion miles. Whoa, boy. It will take us 83,000 years to reach Alpha Centauri, if we left, now.

Does Spelling Count?
On May 28, the sixth grade will be going on field trips. Three groups, three locations. We will converge on Riverfront Park at Canfield Island. Well, oops, we made a bit of a boo-boo on the permission slips. Those slips will be going home on May 23, and we inadvertantly called the park, Riverside, instead of Riverfront. And, because we are using so much paper, the sixth grade team has opted to simply let the mistake go through. We will instruct the kiddoes to cross out the misspelled word and write-in the correct spelling.

Have a great night, folks.

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