news and notes 4/29/08

Upcoming Events:
Farm Trips

May 1
Sunol Farm, Sunol, CA

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

May 8
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: Finish the concrete poem you started in class or start another, due tomorrow.

Math:
U6 and U9 pages in SMJ and SL

Science: Do reading and answer questions, due Thursday.

World Languages:
Spanish - Do worksheet, due 5/2
French - Study family tree, due 5/2

Other:
Memorize your lines for drama

Notes:

I heard great things about all three farms the 6th grade visited today. They were incredibly different. The oyster was cold, blustery and delicious, Green Gulch, serene, but fun and People's Grocery, quick but energizing. Can't wait to hear about how the trips to Sunol and City Slickers go tomorrow.

Joke:

A husband and wife were driving down a country lane on their way to visit some friends. They came to a muddy patch in the road and the car became bogged. After a few minutes of trying to get the car out by themselves, they saw a young farmer coming down the lane, driving some oxen before him.

The farmer stopped when he saw the couple in trouble and offered to pull the car out of the mud for $50. The husband accepted and minutes later the car was free. The farmer turned to the husband and said, "You know, you're the tenth car I've helped out of the mud today."

The husband looks around at the fields incredulously and asks the farmer, "When do you have time to plough your land? At night?"

"No," the young farmer replied seriously, "Night is when I put the water in the hole."