The fish go on vacation!

Tyler scored her first babysitting gig yesterday, agreeing to take care of Auntie Dawn's classroom fish for the summer! She got up bright and early to turn on their light and feed them. She named them Smarty (the big one) Smally (the little one). Oh, it's exciting to have a fish tank on your kitchen counter. Thanks for the opportunity, Auntie!

Celebrate Earth Day!

Think Green!

Don't let the water run while shaving or brushing teeth.

Take short showers instead of tub baths.

Keep drinking water in the refrigerator instead of letting the faucet run until the water is cool.

Scrape, rather than rinse, dishes before loading into the dishwasher; wash only full loads.

Wash only full loads of laundry or use the appropriate water level or load size selection on the washing machine.

Donate extras to people you know or to charity instead of throwing them away.

Reuse grocery bags as trash bags.

Recycle paper (printer paper, newspapers, mail, etc.), plastic, glass bottles, cardboard, and aluminum cans.

Use the http://www.energystar.gov to find energy efficient products for your home. The right choices can save families about 30% ($400 a year) while reducing our emissions of greenhouse gases.

Career Unit

This week is our last week of research in reading and language arts for the Career Unit. Students are taking notes on note cards in the IMC. They are looking at books and career websites for information. By the end of this week we will be organizing our note cards in order to create our speech outlines.

As a culminating event we will go to the Career Fair on Wednesday, April 22nd. Students will have the opportunity to listen to presentations on careers of their choice. We will dine at McDonalds after the fair.

Wow, isn't she cute!

Spring has sprung!

March comes in like a lion,




and goes out like a lamb.........






My crosus's are blooming!

Seriously

Abraham Lincoln, who invented a hydraulic device for lifting ships over shoals, was the only US president ever granted a patent.

Antarctica is the only continent without reptiles or snakes.

Australia is the only country that is also a continent.

Baskin Robbins once made ketchup ice cream. This was the only vegetable flavored ice cream produced.

Bats are the only mammal that can fly.

Bats have only one baby a year.

Elvis Presley made only one television commercial - an ad for "Southern Maid Doughnuts" that ran in 1954.

Gerald Ford was the only US president not to have been elected to either the presidency or the vice presidency.

Giraffes are the only animals born with horns. Both males and females are born with bony knobs on the forehead.

Grover Cleveland is the only US president to have been married in the White House.

Hawaii is the only US state that grows coffee.

Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible.

James Buchanan was the only US president never to be married.

Maine is the only state in the United States whose name is just one syllable.

Ohio is the only US state without a rectangular flag. Ohio's flag is a pennant.

Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any state of the United States.

Teeth are the only parts of the human body that can't repair themselves.

quiz tomorrow

In math we are working on two step equations.

The goal is to isolate the variable, or solve for X.

***Students need to remember their integer rules that were memorized for the blue sheet quizzes.

PxP=P

NxN=P

PxN=N

P+P=P

N+N=N

P+N=subtract and use the sign of the larger number.