Auditions

First of all, a big thank you to the students who volunteered their time before school to scrub up the area outside room 19. It is looking much cleaner now, and much less like the site of a tempera paint factory explosion.

We started the day in auditorium with auditions for Gold Dust or Bust. There are a lot of talented students and I know that I will have a couple disappointed people, particularly for the comic Becky/Bobby role. Everybody was good, but a couple people were great. I'll announce the two casts tomorrow. We stayed in the auditorium for the California Dance Institute program. They are starting to prepare the students for a performance next month, so the standards are getting more stringent. Every step needs to be accurate and perfectly timed to the beat. And our students are rising to the challenge!

After recess, we went to the Tech Center. There we worked a little more of the Mavis Beacon typing program to begin, and then the students make a picture of their special place, the one they wrote about a couple weeks ago. We are in the process of typing these up and making a little book here.

After lunch we corrected our math homework, and we took another section of the Open Court test. We briefly discussed decimals and how they relate to fractions. We went out to PE, and did some of the usual activities. We came back and took the chapter 18 math test.

Homework: Another disappointing day for you homework fiends. I promise to have more another day. (1) Do "Fractions, Decimals" Math, pages 358-361.

Also, tomorrow we will be decorating our masks. I will have some materials here like yarn and pipe cleaners available, but anything they can bring in from home will be great!