Important Letter Sent Home

Today we continued to test our bridges. Each student was given the opportunity to measure the span of their bridge, demonstrate any special features, hear compliments and questions about the appearance and then measure how much weight their bridge could hold. We first started with rocks. If the bridge could hold up to 4 rocks, students could choose to continue with textbooks. Some bridges held up to 14 textbooks! After textbooks were used, students then had the choice to stand on their bridge to see if it could hold their weight. Some students invited Ms. Binks to stand on their bridge. If that worked then they had the opportunity for the celebrity bridge stander (Mr. Sadowsky) to come stand on their bridge. We had quite a few bridges that he could stand on!! Ms. Binks had us reflect on how our bridge did during the weight test. She would like to look at our bridges once more and then will be sending them home next week. We decided not to test the weight underneath the bridges because it was too difficult to find weights to do so that could fit and hang.

We started a new novel this week called "The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane". So far we have been introduced to a rabbit named Edward Tulane who is made out of china. He is about 3 feet tall from the top of his ears to the bottom of his feet. He belongs to a girl named Abilene who loves him very much and dresses him in fancy silk suits, leather shoes and unique hats. Edward does not love Abilene and does not show much interest in her life. We are mapping the character traits of Edward as the story develops to see if he goes through changes. Today in the novel, Abilene's family was traveling to England on a ship and Edward was accidentally thrown overboard. He sank to the bottom of the ocean and felt his first ever emotion...afraid.

A letter was sent home today from Ms. Hayes. She will be leaving Beddington Heights to become the principal of Penbrooke Meadows School. We are all very excited for Ms. Hayes but will miss her a lot at Beddington.

Reminders:
- Pillars of Care assembly is next Tuesday
- Fun lunch orders are due on Thursday
- May long weekend is next week starting on Friday