The Water Cycle Continues

Today we continued Part 3 of our Water Cycle Project-the "pretty" part as the kids say. They got to use glue & glitter. Wow-they did a great job and worked hard at helping each other out. Amazingly enough, with 28 kids, we didn't have a large amount of glitter on the floor and no major spills. I am so proud of them and they were visiting and really loving the project and saying "This is fun". Tomorrow we finish with the written part where they have to explain each part of the water cycle. They are really showing that we can do more projects like this either just our class or both classes together and really handle it with maturity. The worst of it all, is there is never enough time to get everything done. I think I need to keep your kids for 2 more hours each day. What would they think of that???????
Tomorrow we have buddies which is one of our favorite parts of every 2 weeks. We will be helping them with plants & seeds.
We will also take some time tomorrow to trade in some of our money. Some of these kids are really getting lots of money so we are going to have a "buy in" or auction next week where they can spend some of their extra money. We will pay for the jail field trip first and then they can spend most of what they have left.
Please please talk to your child about this. We already talked about it this morning in our meeting and I was hoping to do the buy in tomorrow, but there is no way we can with having to finish these water cycle projects and do buddies so we will do the buy in next week sometime. Sorry if this creates a problem-but they can look at it this way, it gives them time to earn more money.
Nightly writing-the past 2 we corrected together and they seemed to do quite well. Thank you for checking their work to make sure it is 4th grade quality. I will collect tonight's writing tomorrow and grade that one so once again, make sure they have all the editing completed and quality written.
Library tomorrow so get those books back. Some students have overdue slips that came home today so they need to return those books tomorrow as well.
Have a great night.