Mr. McGrath’s Class

Wax Museum info is located below. It will be June 5, at 8:30 in the morning.

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Egg Drop is June 18. Click on link for instructions.

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The McGrath Family is excited to announce that Leah Louise McGrath was born at 6:30 A.M. on Saturday, March 15. She weighed 8 pounds and 2 ounces. Thank you for all of the positive thoughts and prayers.

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Wow! We had a wonderful time at JA BizTown today. The kids were terrific, and truly had a fantastic educational experience. Thank you so much to all of the parents who volunteered their time. We couldn’t have done it with out you all.

1. Carlos
2. Linsey
3. Michaela
4. Maddy
5. Julianna
6. Steven
7. Roberto
8. Eddie
9. Dylan
10. Alex
11. Dustin
12. Samuel
13. Karsten
14. Jesse
15. Jasmine
16. Connor
17. Angel
18. Adriana
19. Elik
20. Sophia
21. Analisa
22. Arlyn
23. Madison
24. Evan
25. Claire
26. Tizoc
27. Jackie
28. Jami
29. Jose
30. Andres
31. Cynthia

Thank you for all of the wonderful gifts and cards. I have really been enjoying our class this year. Have a very MERRY CHRISTMAS and a happy New Year.

Here is a little message from your friend Elmo.

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Tuesday afternoon a bunch of wild turkeys were let loose in our class thanks to Geanna Schmidt and her daughter, Sophia. It was crazy. Thankfully we were able to document the event with our microphone and bring you the gobbles of these wonderful creatures.  Take a listen.

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For more information on these extraordinary (and tasty) birds, go here. Enjoy!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Turkey

Our class is learning the Landlord’s Tale: Paul Revere’s Ride by Henry Wordsworth Longfellow. Each student is working with a partner to read a different stanza of the poem. We will read it together on November 29, and make a podcast of it. Here is a reading of the poem that I found to help you practice.

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Here is also a link of a short movie on Paul Revere that Arlyn’s Family sent us. It is real cool. Thanks! Check it out.

http://www.earlyamerica.com/paul_revere.htm

As you all know, we have been using the Reading Counts Program here at school and the kids are really enjoying it. Ocean Knoll recently ordered 500 new quiz titles for the kids based on their suggestions. Unfortunately, we were not able to purchase all of the corresponding books for these titles.  If you are interested in helping us out, we would greatly appreciate a donation of any of these titles. The list of new titles is below.

Thank you for all of your help and support.

Have a happy Thanksgiving Day!

Barin McGrath

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Hey Class!

I just wanted to let you know that you can download a copy of the reading log from the blog if you forget it at school or lose it.  Click on the link to the right that says Reading Log.