MT History Finale Tomorrow!

Hi there! Let me just start by saying Operation Egg Drop...huge success! Oh my word it was hilarious fun! I got it on tape and will be posting it soon. You have some VERY creative kids! It was also excellent that all of them did not work because we got to examine why and learn even more! Newton would be proud of all these kids!

Montana History Projects are due tomorrow morning at 8:25. Again, no exceptions will be made. I can only imagine what kind of creativity we will see tomorrow. I will again catch footage. Students will be presenting their projects in the morning starting at 9. Feel free to join us. Kids will need to return their MT History books tomorrow.

Hopefully your kids shared with you that we will be having a volunteer opportunity this Wednesday at the Billings Food Bank. I have a call in to find out the exact time but it will be between the hours of 9 and 3. I will know the exact time tomorrow. If you can carpool please let me know or have your kids arrange it. Again, this is totally voluntary and parents are encouraged to come as well. See you there! Oh, and we will be putting together turkey dinner boxes. Perfect!

Lastly, remember tomorrow is a half day, and kids are dismissed at noon. There is no school Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday. The following week I will be here on Monday, but then I will be gone for the rest of the week as my family is heading to Disneyland. Students will have the same sub every day, and she has been a teacher before. Expectations will be the same and learning will continue as normal. I will be blogging live from CA each day, so please continue to check in daily.

Have a great night!

Short Week and 2 Big Projects Due!

Hi! I hope you all had a great weekend! Remember that this is a short week. We are out for the Thanksgiving break on Tuesday at noon.

Please don't forget your Egg Drop experiments tomorrow. No exceptions will be made. I am looking forward to seeing all the creative Newton ideas!

And...how about them Griz?? YES!! Sorry Mrs. Hankin's class! It looks like we will be getting some treats tomorrow! :0)

Tomorrow Night (2nd post for today so read below as well)

May I invite you to the internet safety meeting tomorrow night? When we visited the jail during Red Ribbon Week we saw some of these Internet predators. They were not scary looking people. In fact, what was really scary is that they looked like the average Joe. It gave me shivers. Kids do not have a fighting chance against people like this. They get trapped and hurt and sometimes killed. Please come and learn how to protect your child from these predators. Your child is also encouraged to attend. We will meet in the gym at 7 until 8. An FBI agent, who has just gotten back from a sting in Florida, will be conducting the presentation. See you there!

Two Big Projects Due NEXT week!

Hi. Hopefully your child has a good jump on their Montana History project! It has been fun to hear their ideas and I am very impressed how many number 8s are coming back! Yay! Today the expectation sheet came home for their science wrap up project for force and motion. Their assignment is to create and design a package that will be dropped off the top of the gym roof, adults will do the dropping. The catch is that there has to be a raw egg somewhere in the package that cannot break upon impact. Students need to use what they know about Newton's three laws of motion in order to make their package a safe one for their egg. The fact that the egg breaks or not will not determine the grade, but the thinking and implementing of the laws will be what is graded. Mrs. Hankins and I only have a few rules.

They are:

1. Package can't weigh more than a pound.

2. Package can't be larger than a shoe box.

3. Package must have student's name on it.

4. Packages may not use parachutes or gliders or anything else that would make it float.

5. Packages must be at school on Monday, November 23rd by 1:00pm.

6. Eggs must not crack or break when dropped from the roof of the gym onto a piece of plywood.

7. HAVE A BLAST!!!!

We are absolutely encouraging parent help/guidance. Packages can be tested at home and re-designed if need be. However, the one at school will be dropped as is and only once.

We will be conducting Operation Egg Drop on Tuesday at 2:00 if you want to come and watch.

On another note, approved students went to personal safety class today. A summary of what was talked about and discussed went home tonight in the take home folder.

Lastly, thanks to all of you who did your parent homework! I loved reading them! Tomorrow is the last day to turn them in if you have yet to do them mom and dad! :0)

Have a great night!

Owls In the Family Final Book Project.

We summarized and acted out the odd chapters, and Mrs. Brucker's class did the same for the even. Wow! We learned/remembered a lot!

What is my kid learning in Music Class??

Wow! Who knew that two Wii remotes set up just right could create this kind of interactive whiteboard for your child to learn on? Mr. Goodheart is amazing! What a great way to learn the four space notes and five line notes! Not to mention the character traits of encouragement, patience, and teamwork! Wow, no wonder we are known in the community for being a leader in becoming a true technology school! And, yes that is what they are saying about Bitterroot!!

This morning we also got a surprise oovoo visit from Rusty! He called in to just check on us and see how we are all doing. He even asked how Abby's mom was feeling after her surgery, how the dentist was for Lailyn, Jordan, Mikaela, and Natalie, and he talked pretty serious to Paige and how sorry he was to hear that her grandmother passed away. This was a very powerful connection to these kids! Neat to see!

When reading the writing journals today, (which I love by the way-hilarious!), I discovered some wishes to add some pretty interesting subjects to our academic day. They included the following: hockey class, hunter's safety, football class, home-ec, wood class, game time, mathology, Wii learn, firefighter class, first pioneer class, hubb (cooking) class, papermate class, candybar making, stranger danger class, softball, how to play video game class, doll clothes design class, pet styling class, and of course we can't leave out the ever so popular deer cooking class, and cow patty cooking class! HILARIOUS!!!

Have a great evening and I hope we have started to form a plan for those MT History projects due next Tuesday! Have a blast making memories with your kid!

History Projects

The Montana History project selection sheets came home today. They are due back tomorrow with your child's selected project. Models were shown from Mrs. Hankin's class of almost all of the selections. Students were told they may not use/steal their ideas and need to come up with their own. I am encouraging all students to select option 8, come up with your own project. What about a report using technology??? Projects are due on Tuesday, Nov. 24th at 8:25 am. There will be NO exceptions. If you know your child will be out on that half day, please have them bring it in before that date to share. Student's should NOT bring projects in early unless they will be absent that Tuesday. I have NO room to store them.

I did not send home the work packets...sigh...tomorrow!

PTA meeting tonight at 6:30. Show up and earn $500 fake dollars for your child. Go Bitterroot!