Sorry for the late blog

Had to drive to state college to pick up my son from the airport. He is home on leave as he transfers from Lackland AFB, San Antonio, to Warren AFB, Cheyenne.

Anyway, we introduced soil to the munchkins, today. They learned the definition of lithosphere, geo, regolith; the suffixes, logy, and, graphy, and the difference 'twix soil and dirt.

What's the difference? Dirt is simply, regolith, is nothing more than weathered and powdered loose rock, and soil is dirt with minerals and live and dead organisms.

The homework handout covers that material.

4-sight Testing
Tomorrow, we do reading 4-sight during 3rd and 4th periods. Section 61 - my normal 4th period class will meet after lunch. Oh, yeah, all sixth graders eat lunch from 11:10 to 11:40 a.m. Several of the sixth grade teachers will be in the cafeteria to teach our kiddoes proper cafeteria ediquette. It seems a handful of them are using the cafeteria as a track and many, many more seem to think normal conversation volume is to shout.

Have a great night, folks

No Fungus, Among Us

How to demonstrate taxonomy - the action of organization through sorting and elimination. Okay, we sit in a circle toss our shoes into the middle of the circle and through direction sort and eliminate shoes and sneakers until we come down to just one or two possible choices that fit our requirements. Thank goodness, sneaker and shoe-wearers had socks. And, the sandals and flip-flop wearers were made aware of the bacterial dangers associated with walking around in flip-flops.

Have a great night, folks.

Impressive Press

WoW! The munchkins took well to making their leaf press, today. I brought in a few newspapers for those children that forgot, but, for the most part, they did well. Now, parents, ensure your kiddo finishes the press and places the press with leaves on a shelf or counter with a book or rock atop it for the next 7 to 10 days.

In social studies we are making posters of the Freedoms of Expression. The only problem is the posters have no words, other than the student's name. Hee hee, what a great lesson on interpretation.

Have a great night, folks.

WoW! No Questions!!!

I kept a laptop with me all weekend, thinking some of my new cherubs will have some difficulties in collecting their leaves for the current project. As of right now, I've only had one email from a young lady with a very fixable problem.

So, as I prepare for my last night of summer and a cookout at a location with absolutely no cellphone reception, the laptop stays home. Afterall, I just can't imagine any of my students waiting until the last minute to complete their science assignment.

Students should have their leaves and an old newspaper for tomorrow's class. We will cut the newspaper into multiple sheets to create a leaf press. In between several sheets of newspaper, munchkins will place a leaf. Upon completion, students will have a leaf press to take home and place on a shelf or counter with a brick, or heavy book, atop. They will leave the press there for about 10 days before bringing the press back to school.

Have a great (end-of-the-summer) night, folks.