The kids spent some time playing on the grounds 'round their Shoreline classes. I challenged them to each hang from a bar for 10 seconds. I thought that would be a complete slam dunk. Turns out we need to invest a WHOLE lot more time practicing the fine art of hanging out. They would hang for 3-4 seconds and then drop. Lame sauce.
Miraculously, when I told them that there would be no lunch if they didn't manage to hang on for 10 measly seconds, they each got it on the first attempt. How 'bout that!?
STILL SEUSSIAN: Though Dr. Seuss' birthday has come and gone, we're still in Seuss mode, as I got a rather sizeable stack of Seuss books from the library. The kids read "Horton Hears a Who," "Bartholomew and the Oobleck," "Horton Hatches an Egg," and "If I Ran the Circus" today and took Accelerated Reader tests on those titles. And when I shelved those titles they read, I grabbed a few more Seuss books they've yet to read. So Seussapalooza continues!
BUILDING BLOCKS: We missed LEGO class last week due to a dentist appt, but today the kids were right back at it. Annabelle's still working on a kit that is multiple 'pixel art' builds. Today's challenge was a crab. Tragically, one of his eyes was missing. That's why he became Patchy the Pirate crab.
Here's the moon rising over Queen Anne hill. Lovely!
Mr Henkel, a loooong time QAHS gym teacher, required 8th grade boys to hang from a bar by both arms for minutes to pass gym class. He always said, "You'll thank me if you have to hang onto the side of a boat in Puget Sound for an hour." Naturally it became a real test of machismo among us.
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