WWI, and Welcome Bridey and Earlene

First of all, everyone in Room 71 met their reading goal for October! That means we can all come to the luncheon Friday! YAHOOOOO! There are still two students who are 2 books short of their 15 book goal for the year. I'm sure they will be caught up by the end of November! We have read collectively over 300 books as a class!



We started learning about the causes of The Great War today. Is it confusing or what? It sounds like a playground fight among 8 year olds! Hopefully the map below will help you see how close these countries are to each other. You will notice that on this map the Allied Powers (England, France, and Russia) are called Triple Entente. Can you figure out why most of the fighting took place in Germany, Belgium and France?

Europe in 1914

We also met Earlene and Bridey today! The kids great job of handling them, and treating them like God's creatures. Was Lauren excited today or what? Dylan, sorry about NO RATS! Joshua did a great job of handling them after school.

28 out of 40 Apes have responded to the CRASH poll. So far it looks like Penn is the favorite book character. There are only a few more days to vote!

Pictures of Bridey and Earlene will be posted tomorrow! Mr. G forgot his camera at school!