Wednesday, October 6 Lesson

Our 4th graders really, really love to play games! They were so excited when they got in class and saw the Jeopardy board up! We played last Wednesday night, but we didn't have much time, so we played again tonight. Tonight we played where the teams not choosing the question got half the point value if they got the question correct, so that everyone had a reason to pay attention to all the questions. All three teams wrote answers on the dry erase boards so that everyone could answer the same question. Fun times!

We are looking forward to the Wetoga retreat this weekend. I heard some of the kids that are going are already excited about it. Sunday morning will be a review, so that any of our students not there will not be missing the lesson. Cody and I plan to take Ryder for the first trip, so we hope to see many of you there! Mrs. Kay will be at East Side Sunday morning for any of our kids that don't get to make it to the retreat.

I handed out our homework tonight at the very, very end of class. I made a crossword puzzle on this website: http://www.armoredpenguin.com/crossword/ . The website was easy to use, saves the puzzle, turned it into a printable PDF, and has a printable answer key (which I have if anyone would like a copy!). It also let me title the puzzle, and some of the other sites I looked at that did not have this feature. And of course, the best part is it was free :) You can pay to set up an account and get some added features, but you can make crosswords and word searches without setting up an account. The only problem that I had was that the lowercase "l" didn't print in the clues. Dashes, uppercase "I," and some of the blanks also didn't print. So this entire paragraph was pretty much to explain why the puzzle looks pretty awful. Please let me know if you find any mistakes in the puzzle, so that I can make changes before filing it.

The puzzle is very long, and the boxes are very small, so I am adding the link to the actual puzzle here: http://www.armoredpenguin.com/crossword/Data/2010.10/0613/06132745.480.html . We don't take up the homework, but we do review it, discuss it, and give the students chances to say their memory work on Wednesday nights. We had so much material in the lessons that we don't have time to get to, so the homework is designed to help the students study more with their families. Some of the students may work hard to do parts of the homework, while others may be able to do it all with ease. Please modify it to best fit your family needs, because it is not something that is given for our use.

After class I learned that Elizabeth made choir, and that Martin made Chorus! Congratulations to these two on these accomplishments! I love hearing good news from our kids!

I hope you all have a wonderful weekend planned! See you all Sunday or before!