Wednesday, June 8, 2011

I promised one email update every day this week so I wouldn’t be able to sleep if I didn’t come through with a quick one before heading off to sleepy land.  

Today’s biggest event was the bowling field trip.  The weather was absolutely gorgeous.  It was  Baby Bear weather, not too hot and not too cold.   The kids did their usual game of attempting to get all cars that we walked past to honk horns at us.  When we finally made it to bowling, students were allowed to get into lanes with 4 or 5 people per lane.  They could choose their own group so the kids could spend this special moment with whoever they wanted to.  Mr. Haar and Mrs. Wilmott had a spirited “clash of the Titans” battle of bowling.   While Mrs. Cargo assisted with the dissemination of nachos and french fries.   While I took some photos, made sure know one played video games, handled a few mechanical challenges and allegedly “taste tested” several team’s nachos/french fries for quality control purposes.   Truth be told...I think the arrival of the nachos and french fries may have excited the student more so than their bowling competition.   Regardless the students had a great time eating, bowling and several cars did honk at us.  

Upon returning the students were able to sign each other’s yearbooks, play various math games on the computer and basically “hang” with each other from all three classes.  

We ended the day practicing for our promotion ceremony.  We are really hoping to be a fine tuned promotion machine come Friday morning.    Most of our students appear to have read and memorized their line from “Oh the Places They’ll Go.”   The next goal would be work with them on reading their line with passion and theatrically.  We had a few people that may have been auditioning as the teacher from Ferris Bueller's Day Off.    So we are encouraging them to take a chance at school, if you could maybe also encourage them to try reading it with enthusiasm that would be great.  

Thursday

1. 8:30-10:15 Promotion Practice
2. 10:30-12:30   Staff versus 5th Graders in Dodgeball followed by 5th grade picnic   **please note all are welcome to watch dodgeball and socialize during the picnic

Day ends at 12:30 p.m.   *please note the extremely unique  Thursday end time

Friday

• 10:30-11:45’ish   5th Grade Promotion
• Students may begin their summer vacations at the completion of the promotion festivities.  

Day ends at the end of promotion ceremony  *please note the super extremely unique Friday end time.