We have a ton of kudos to hand out this week. Congratulations to Room 15er Ethan Scott for being named KOBI5’s Student of the Week! Our highly-successful Brain Bowl team also deserves recognition. Room 15 kids Emily Hawkins and Andy Croft, along with Danielle McCormick, Jackson Vaughn, Sebastian Vaughn, and Christopher Hervey, finished second in the annual national event. It was the best performance by a CPE team in anyone’s memory, and best of all, we crushed Mae Richardson! Kudos also to “The Bulldogs,” our winning “Mathketball” team in math class. The team consisted of Zach, Celina, Daisy, Samuel, Michelle, and Ramsey. They nipped the Invisible Corndogs in our championship match on the 24th. Speaking of fourth grade math, students are moving on to capacity, mass, and temperature. Here’s the homework for this week: Monday, Feb. 27th; Tuesday, Feb. 28th; Wednesday, Feb 29th; and Thursday, March 1st.

In Language Arts, students are well into their Book Clubs. To stay on pace, members of the Matilda group need to read around 20 pages per night. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory members need to read around twelve, and James and the Giant Peach kids need to read around 11. Specific reading assignments appear on each students Assignment Calendar (if they don’t, the student is neglecting a responsibility), and we plan on being done with this Book Club by March 9th. There is no spelling exam this week. Finally, be sure to check out our Black History Month podcasts of our class plays: Richard Wright and the Library Card, How Jackie Robinson Saved the World, Freedom for the First Time, and The Girl That Got Arrested. Just click on the title and an mp3 recording will pop up.