Well, that ends another wonderful year of school for all of us. Congratulations on a wonderful year. I really had a blast not only teaching you, but getting to know each of you. After 180 days of school’s ups and downs, challenges, and successes I sit here in my empty classroom hoping that each of you is better for your experience with me as your teacher. I know that I am a better teacher because of the things that I have learned from each of you.

It was quite a joy to sit back today and watch you all from a corner signing each other’s yearbooks. As a teacher I saw each of you as different children than the ones who came to me last September. The growth and maturity that comes in the relatively few months of your lives that is a school year is amazing. It felt as if I was watching you all grow up before my eyes.

I hope that the experiences and the friendships you made this year stick with you as long as I know your influence will be a part of me.

Have a great summer and check in some time @ Club Geek, I would love to know about your summers.

Be safe and have fun. Remeber to laugh, smile, dance, and tell a lot of stories (rat holes!!)


~Mr. M

Well, this was the last full day of class. Today we spent a lot of time cleaning our tote trays, packing up all of our school supplies, watching the movie Stone Fox, having Field Day, and enjoying our fabulous pizza party. Nadia had a great time, too, with all of your. She sure got over her shyness quickly! Thanks for being so kind to her while she was here.

Tomorrow we are going to sign yearbooks and finish tidying up the classroom. See you tomorrow!
~Mr. M

Just another reminder to parents that you are all welcome ot join us for our pizza party. I believe that only enough pizza was ordered for the kids, so ,parents, you may have to bring your own! Field day will be from 1:15 to 2:15 pm. Notes about the time change are are in your child’s take home folder.

Have a great night!

Today we finished up our health and saftey books, discussing smoking and social situation choices, this morning. Those finished books should be in your backbacks to take home with you. In math we continued to so some work with adding and subtracting fractions.

Unfortunately, our field day was postponed until Wednesday. The time is yet to be determined. That’s all for today! See you tomorrow.

~Mr. M

Well, I cannot believe that I am saying this. TODAY IS THE LAST FRIDAY OF THE SCHOOL YEAR, and by the time you are reading this blog post the school day is already behind you. Congratulations on a wonderful week. Most school work is finished and turned in. I want to take a moment to let you know a few things:

• All library books need to be back next week MONDAY! There are two of you that still need to turn in your books.
• Gym clothes and shoes will come home after our field day on Monday along with your art shirts.
• Almost all school supplies will come home on Wednesday, so bring a big bag if you think you may need it.
• There will be a school sing along on Wednesday morning.
• Report cards come home on Thursday.
• Dismissal for summer is at 11:50 on Thursday.

Have a great weekend and check in some time in Club Geek.

~ Mr. M

Next week Wednesday we will be having a pizza party to celebrate the ending of a wonderful school year. Our party will start at 11:00 and will go until 11:45. Dani’s mom has been wonderful enough to make all of the arrangements for us, so A BIG SPECIAL THANKS GOES OUT TO HER!

All parents are invited to attend if it works out in your schedule!

PARENTS - We just finished watching a movie called Journey to 10,000BC. Please ask your children what they learned about the Paleo-Indians that inhabited this continent during the last ice age. Your children should know some interesting things about life back then, the climate back then, and the technology of the anscestors of early American Indians.

Here is the classwork for the day:

Not much to say again. Here is the classwork for the day:

No time to really chit-chat. Here is the work for the day:

This week we began a bit of a writing project for reading class. After reading Visitors from Space we decided to do a writing project written in the first person, where we are the comet! This piece is an expository fiction work where there are facts with fictional happenings. Our requirements were to explain the parts of a comet, what a comet is made up of, and use the word “period” correctly in relation to comets. We were also supposed to take the comet on a journey into our solar system naming the planets in order as we enter and leave the solar system.

Some of you are setting the plot to be like a race or like another story that people know. Great luck, we will finish them up in class tomorrow.

Here is the classwork for the day:

According to Dani, today was easy. In math we used manipulatives to discover the volume of simple shapes in cubic units. Dany says, “That’s easy!” In reading we worked on vocaulary words fror our story Visitors From Space (click the link to hear our story). Dani says, “Come on - too easy!” In English we reviewed using commas to separate our values. Dani yells, “Oh, come on, Mr. M! That’s siiiimple!” Oh, and in social studies we began reading about the history of our town. “Mr. M, this is nothing!” an elated Dani chimes in.

Great work today, kids! Keep up the great attitude. Normally, many students are having summer dreams, but you are working just like it was the first month of school. Thanks for the great work ethic and effort that you put into all you do!

~Mr. M