news and notes 4/15/2008

Upcoming Events:
Farm Trips

April 21
Star Route Farm, 95 Olema Bolinas Rd, Bolinas, CA 94924

April 28
McCormack Sheep Ranch, Rio Vista
Parent Chaperone 1: Nancy Kaplan

April 29
Pie Ranch, Davenport, CA

April 30
People's Grocery, Oakland, CA (1/2 day trip, 10:00 - 1:00)
Teacher: Karen Baughman

Green Gulch Farm, Sausalito, CA
Parent Chaperone 1: Silva Raker

Oyster Ranch Driver, Drakes Bay, CA
Parent Chaperone 1:Mark Burget
Parent Chaperone 2: Michael Warren

May 1
Sunol Farm, Sunol, CA
Teacher: Julie Oulette

City Slickers, Berkeley, CA (1/2 day trip)

May 8 (Note the date change!)
Frog Hollow, Brentwood, CA

Homework:

Reading Buddies: 20 minutes 4 nights a week + entries in reading log everytime + post-it notes. Use Reading Log 2.0

Writing: Choose a poem and practice saying it aloud, due Thursday. Try these sites to search for poems Poem Hunter and Giggle Poetry.

Humanities: Small Farm Webquest, due tomorrow

Math:
U6 and U9 pages in SMJ and SL

World Languages:
Spanish: Study for game, due tomorrow.
Reflect on game, due Friday.
Take notes on family, due Monday.

Other:
Memorize your lines for drama

Notes:

We started investigating some urban farms today in class. Several people missed the videos we watched. Here they are:
Potato Harvest - a look at how one of our most common foods is harvested


People's Grocery - an example of an urban farming project.
Joke:

A state trooper is driving down the highway when he sees a truck driver pull over,
walk to the side of the truck with a tire jack, bang on the side of the truck a few times, and then drive away. A couple of miles down the road the driver does the same thing.
A few more miles, same thing. The trooper pulls the truck over and asks the driver to explain. The driver says, “Well, the load limit is ten tons, and I’m carrying fifteen tons of parakeets, so I’ve got to keep some of them flying around.”

Hot Choco:
Ben 4/17