A FABULOUS FRIDAY
Our last day of the 3rd quarter was a good one.
At Morning Circle, one of the class jobs is to collect the student-name popsicle sticks and deposit them into the “Bucket of Randomness.” The popsicle sticks are on our rugs, randomly assigning where each student should place her/his mat and hula hoop.
For a number of months now, s/he who collects popsicle sticks each morning has tried to do it as fast as possible, with a timer running.
We’ve gone from 24 seconds, to 12 seconds…
Then Navie had a breakthrough idea: What if students made “clusters” of popsicle sticks? When the collector dashed to only 3 clusters instead of 15 separate individuals: 6 seconds!
Then Sadie asked, “Do we have to stay in our hula hoops?”
With both teachers double-vaccinated, with class held outside come rain or high water, with 2G students being under 10 years of age… “Yes.”
Today the collector decided to try the “everyone hold their popsicle stick over the Bucket of Randomness” method.
1 second.
• Rama sent into exile for 14 years by his step-mother, the queen.
In Morning Circle, students — after well recounting the Ramayana so far — were left with another Ramayana cliffhanger.
• Lakshman, Rama’s brother, sliced off the end of Soorpanaka’s nose!
Turns out Soorpanaka, a demoness rejected by our hero avatar Rama, is none other than Ravana’s sister!
Ravana (which means “He who makes the universe scream”) is the 10-headed demon antagonist of the epic.
Nothing good can come from Soorpanaka running back to Ravana.
How bad might it get?
Round 1 this morning was a make-up Religion class during which a very exciting Easter bingo was played!
MATH QUIZ: 2D & 3D SHAPES
Our math quiz this morning was both a spelling review — circle, sphere, square, cube, rectangle, rectangular prism, cylinder — as well as a review of 2D and 3D shape concepts.
The biggest challenge: What’s the difference between a rectangle and a rectangular prism?
TREE HOUSE NEWS
After reviewing the numerous E10 and E10+ Tree House News rough drafts, prepare yourself for a great Tree House News issue.
Forthcoming!
ART WITH MS. SAKIKO
Before Ms. Sakiko got sucked into 5G — back in the day when she was a little “free-floaty” — 2G would exert every power bestowed upon us to pull her into 2G orbit.
Ms. Sakiko is an awesome Pokemon-creature and Hindu-god/dess artist!
She’s an inspiration!
Happily, today, she was free to join 2G at 11 am. Thus, students who had finished their Tree House News final drafts (writing) and drawings could get to artwork with Ms. Sakiko.
AND… A BABY!
Katelyn was keen to share today.
No, waiting until after Spring Break was not an option.
But what couldn’t wait?
Katelyn wanted to share… a baby!
Navie brought babies too: baby duckings!
TWO ALL-GREEN DAYS!
2G finished the 3rd Quarter with TWO — count them! One, two — all-green days.
And another good dominos run:
Not bad given the energy, the anticipation, the excitement over…
A good Spring Break to all!
Onwards!