Can you believe that Spring Break is already over and we’re heading into the final stretch of this school year? Wow– time sure is flying by– especially since we’re having so much fun! Getting back into the early morning and school routine is tough, but after a slower start on Tuesday, we found our rhythm and are now back in the swing of life in Division 6!
Our big focus this week is preparing for our Entrepenuer Fair next week. Our store fronts need to be created as well as some advertising for the classes that have been invited to come. We also created receipts for our customers so that they have a record of any purchases they make. 
Our GRAND OPENING will be on Wednesday, April 10th with Mr. Peters and Ms. Allen’s classes being our first customers. On Thursday (April 11th) we’ll have one more day of shopping and will be visited by Ms. Wilson’s and Mrs.Willis’ classes. Depending on our product supply, we may even be able to have a private day of shopping just for us. 
Remember, our class time is now focused on store creation; however, if you want to continue to create products AT HOME, you are more than able to do that. We will have a LOT of people coming to shop, so having a good inventory of your stock is a good idea!
This month, we’re learning and practicing an EARTH DAY reader’s theater play. The class has been split in half and each person has a part in a particular “scene” of the play. You have taken home your script to practice it a bit over the weekend. 
Memorization is not expected… although it would be a wonderful goal to reach. Focus more on HOW you speak: the expression you put into your lines, the volume and clarity with which you deliver your lines, and your pacing. We’ll keep practicing next week in your groups.
We’ve embarked on a poetry writing project and are creating a collection of different types of poems. Poetry is a style of writing that tells a story using powerful words, phrases, and focuses on the “big picture” that is being painted or ideas that are being conveyed. Different poems follow a particular formula or criteria as well. Our first poem is the Haiku. We have been having fun working together to create these short , but powerful 3 line poems that follow a 5-7-5 syllable structure.
We’ve started part 3 of “If the World Were 100 People” graphing lessons and this week’s question focused on hunger around the world. “How many people have enough to eat?”. We’re very fortunate to be in the category of having enough to eat… but, sadly, still a pretty big segment of humans do not have enough food.
Your blog response this weekend is about the big announcement Mrs. Davis made on Friday morning… there’s a new member of the family! What is his name?