You ARE missed! What a special class.

Since you're so special, here's some ideas to keep your brain active this summer. Remember, use it or lose it! The summer reading contest links are under Betty's picture. :) Read, learn, enjoy, and have fun.

Free download-

• 9 Ways To Exercise Your Brain This Summer The author wrote a mistake-can you find it? :)

Here's the website of the guy who came up with the above comic. Cool. Just discovered him.

• Michael Kline-Cartoonist plus

I'm going to miss you!

It's been a wonderful year watching you grow, learn, and develop into wonderful human beings. Remember to do your best and do what's right-even when you don't feel like it! :) Keep reading and ENJOY learning! I look forward to hearing even more as you continue to grow and develop. You can always leave a note right here. It has been a great year teching you-my pleasure!

I left some links here and on the parent blog about First Fridays, Florida's 500th birthday celebration, and about summer reading. You can even log your reading to try to break a world recordthrough Scholastic! Sounds cool!  It was also cool meeting Betty Davis! Make sure you keep an eye on the weather and get prepared just in case. Until then, have a great summer.

Hurricane Season Begins Today!

• Visit the updated website to check your address in category 1-5 hurricanes and view the storm surge simulator. Miami-Dade-Hurricane

• Visit the Museum of Science today to meet meteorologist, Betty Davis from WPLG, Channel 10 news and practice being a meteorologist! She's super friendly and will show you how. Here's an old Weather Channel interview with her (2008 interview with Betty Davis) Bring a camera! Meet hurricane hunters, researchers, and more. Participate in activities and pick up information. See Hurricane Andrew history (pictured above). When you're done, visit the birds of prey out back. Mostly, enjoy your day! Miamisci-Events

North America on Discovery Channel

Watch Discovery's North America at 9:00 p.m. Sunday! 

Watch the animal cam.

Puffins

National Geographic - video you saw in class

Bruce Mc Millan's Puffin Page

Puffin info, pics, vids...

Puffin diagram - print and color

Puffin Fest

Aww, puffin count in the UK - video and pics

Puffin contest!

Countdown to Reading About the Apollo Mission . . .

We start reading Moonshot on Monday.We only have one more book to go-  A  Cricket In Time Square!

Links to Moon Landing Books:
Moonshot by Brian Floca | Scholastic.com Most of you have it. Bring it Monday!
First Men On The Moon
Apollo 11 The Moon Landing Logbook  - TEMPORARILY out of stock
NASA Apollo 11, An Insight Into the Hardware From the First Manned Mission to Land on the Moon

Additional Information:

Free app http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/moon-globe/id333180321?mt=8

More NASA info http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/history/apollo/apollo-11/apollo-11-info.html

Moon Phases http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/MoonPhase.php

Moonshot Notes http://brianfloca.com/MoonshotNotes.html

Merrit Island Wildlife Refuge http://www.fws.gov/merrittisland/

Congratulations, You've Completed the FCAT!

A job well done! Enjoy! Celebrate your hard work and effort. :)  I'm proud of you.

We are thinking of you.

Our class shares thoughts and feelings with those who miss our school friend.

Earth Hour is finally here 8:30 tonight!

Remember to turn off your lights, television and video games for ONLY ONE HOUR to support OUR FAVORITE PLANET! Record TV programs to view later and go outside, play flashlight games, or just tell stories and jokes. Pass around the flashlight to each person as they tell a story. They will be the "star" of the show! Also, check out that magnificent evening sky! :) You can always sit back and daydream the hour away. It's your choice. Lights out 8:30-9:30 and enjoy the fun! :)
Earth Hour YouTube video

Video

March is great for space exploration!

• We should be able to see the comet by Tuesday, March 12. 
• Sun-earth Days begin 3/22. 
• March also celebrates women in space. 
• Remember to click on the other links to the right.

Comet pics and info-Our light pollution will alter its brightness.

Asteroid and Comet watch

Nasa.gov

Sun-Earth Days

Women @ NASA

Earth Hour (3/23) - Turn off your lights one hour!

Esio Trot

Biography

Roald Dahl

Born: Llandaff, South Wales, GB

Roald Dahl was one of the greatest story-tellers of all time. He was born in Llanduff, South Wales, of Norwegian parents, in 1916, and educated in English boarding-schools. Then, in search of adventure, the young Dahl took a job with Shell Oil in Africa. When World War II broke out he joined the RAF as a fighter pilot, receiving terrible injuries and almost dying in a plane crash in 1942.

It was following this “monumental bash on the head” and a meeting with C. S. Forester (author of the famous Captain Horatio Hornblower stories) that Roald Dahl's writing career began, with articles for magazines such as The New Yorker. He wrote successful novellas and short stories for adults, such as Tales of the Unexpected, before concentrating on his marvelous children's stories. The first of these, James and the Giant Peach, in 1960, was followed by Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and an unbroken string of hugely successful, best-selling titles.

Roald Dahl worked from a tiny hut in the pale orchard of the Georgian house in Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire which he shared with his wife, Liccy. He was always brimming with new ideas and his many books continue to bring enormous enjoyment to millions of children and their parents throughout the world.

Roald Dahl died on November 23, 1990.

Severe weather week

http://www.nws.noaa.gov/os/edures.shtml#student

Happy Dr. MLk,Jr Day AND Inauguration Day!

Today is a day we commemorate a man's fight for civil rights. Because of him, people were reminded  to love and respect each other.  Today, President Barack Obama uses a Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Bible while being sworn into office for another term. Today, marks another event for the history books of the future, and you are alive during this time! :) Can you think of a great journal topic for your writing tomorrow? I can. See you in the morning.