The END is near....the end of the year that is! Such a great group of kids! Thank you so much for sharing them with me this year --- I look forward to hearing of their successes at the high school level. Last bits of business - Civics Books have been collected (for 4 days!) If your student has not returned their book by tomorrow - they will go on the fine list in the main office. If you see any other "borrowed" classroom or library books - please have them return those as well. In ENGLISH - We are delving into Midsummer Night's Dream --- challenging and fun! There is very little outside work for this play since students should be focused on getting adequate sleep during our testing season (we still have MAPS and the EOCs for math). They will have a quiz over the characters, a verse from the play and a biography packet. They have the materials to study for this exam which will be Wednesday next week. Their final choice book dialectical journal is due on Monday (5/19) - most students are already finished - please push yours if they haven't quite completed this project. In history - we are still working on Frontier House --- we will finish up with a quick look at industrialization in Washington and then finish up with Japanese American Interment and a final quick look at Washington in the present day. Whew! We will be BUSY right up to the last day of school!