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Mr. B’s Hive
Classroom note for the 7th and 8th grade families
Feb. 06, 2012
Hymnology Hymn 104, “Go to Dark Gethsemane” is the hymn that will be studied Wednesday. Students have one week to say the hymn.
Cape Canaveral Thank you to all of you for footing the cost so that your student could attend this field trip. A special thank-you goes to the parents who were able to drive and thus give to our students the overnight experience at the Kennedy Space Center. We shared the experience with three other schools which were also scheduled for that date. This unique learning center has become so popular that reservations for the last two months of the school year need to be made over a year in advance.
We viewed an excellent presentation on the contributions of the Hubble Telescope to our understanding of deep space. Astronaut Tom Jones, who had made 4 journeys into space aboard the Space Shuttle, was there for the evening as our personal instructor. He showed a video of one of his journeys, and we were able to appreciate the awesome conditions that surround the work of the crews outside the space shuttle.
We had a hands on experience of building rockets and launching them under air pressure at the facilities of the Saturn V Rocket. I think each student shared with me the totality of their individual rocket’s success. Of course, sleeping at this facility under the Saturn VRocket was another experience unique unto itself.
Because of our small size and ability to finish our projects, our personal KSC guide was able to give us additional tours and share with us information that other schools did not get.
In asking both students and parents about the success and value of this fieldtrip, we received a “unanimous thumbs up.” Again thank you for making this possible.
Book Reports February 20th For 7th graders, Roll of Thunder For 8th graders, Huckleberry Finn
Literature The story has captured the interest of our students. Daily word quizzes are assisting in understanding vocabulary words. Also simile-metaphor-personification seem to be better understood as we continue in the novel.
In the progress of our story, the original goal in chapter one of taking two women to a fort on the Southern terminus of Lake Champlain has finally been accomplished in chapter 14, but with much danger, death and injury. This week we will continue into the historical portion of the novel with the surrender of the fort to the French General Montcalm and his forces.
A great tragedy happens with the massacre of British troops and colonials by Indians that Montcalm could not keep in control.
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