Room 15 kids picked up 23 pounds of trash on our third Adopt-A-Street Clean-up. This is significantly less than previous outings, but it wasn’t due to any lack of effort on the kids’ part. Our theory is that Hopkins Street residents are doing a better job of cleaning up after themselves.  The photo at left is my favorite from the clean-up. It was taken during our brief respite at Van Horn Park.

So much to do and so little time to do it! Our 5th Grade Oregon Coast Adventure is just around the corner–May 23rd and 24th, to be exact. We’ll be spending the next three weeks preparing for it with classroom activities related to trip. In the meantime, a packet of information including the permission slip, itinerary, and chaperone form will be going home with students this week. Of course, we still have all the rest of our classwork to address. Students will be finishing up their current Book Clubs by early next week, they have new vocabulary words on Monday, April 29th, and in math we’ll be wrapping up our study of graphs with a quiz this Friday. Here’s the homework for this week: Monday, April 29th; Tuesday, April 30th; Wednesday, May 1st; Thursday, May 2nd.

Finally, students performed their classroom plays last week. These are simple but fun classroom productions that, according to research on the brain, improve fluency quite significantly. Click here to see The Stupids, and here to see Babe. Horton Hears a Who appears right here: