Who's There?

KNOCK KNOCK: I'm not sure what time it was when you heard your first "Knock Knock" joke of the day, but I can tell you with all certainly the first one I heard was at 6:48 a.m.. And it went like this:

CJ: "Knock knock!"
Me: "Who's there?"
CJ: "Why do owls go?"
Me" "Why do owls go who?"
CJ: "Because that's how they talk, silly! Get it? Get it?!"

FINAL WORD: The kids got their science finals back today. They each missed one question, earning 93 percent, so an A for each of them. Hooray! (And no, I am NOT counting the last true-or-false question, "Rocks are amazing things!" as a miss for CJ. As he pointed out last week, "That's an opinion question." The kids did a little clean up in class today, stripping their binders and gathering up months' worth of odds and ends. As a parting gift, the teacher let the kids each select a rock and a couple of googly eyes and Voila! instant Pet Rock.It was very nice of her and the kids loved it.

In class, they played a few rounds of Bingo! On their scorecards were vocab words from each of the three units they completed this year (wood, balance & motion, and rocks & soil). As luck would have it, CJ was the first to get a Bingo!

BOOK 'EM: In our inbox at school today was a hot-off-the-presses version of their Shoreline school's yearbook. Sweet! An older student headed up the project and she did a nice job. And so here you have it, CJ & Annabelle's very first yearbook photos. They are, as one would expect, not great. That's a yearbook tradition right? In my/their defense, we'd just come in out of a rainstorm, and were not expecting a portrait session ...
Next year, we'll mix in a comb. Probably. With enough notice. ;)

M&MATH: Tomorrow night there's an end of year celebration at the school. We're going to make some treats to take and we needed red M&Ms as one ingredient. You know what that meant - buying a couple of bags and doing some sorting by color. But before we started counting, I asked the kids to make some predictions. Which color would they have the most of? The least? How many total would they have?

Then they got to counting. (Do you like their jaunty Dollar Store hats?)
I had the kids count by 2s, 3s, 4s, 5s, and 10s. They liked the 4s the least. It was better math practice than I thought it would be, as instead of just routine counting, we were talking about it as multiples of the number.

And because I know you're just dying to know, CJ's bag had 396 M&Ms. Annabelle's had 402. I told CJ he was ripped off and he should write corporate tomorrow. ;) CJ had the most orange (79) and the fewest brown and yellow (58 each). Annabelle had the most orange, also (93), and the fewest brown (41).

In the end, we got enough red ones (109 between the two of them) for our project. Tomorrow will definitely be an artsy craftsy day!