'Bye Raphael, We'll Miss You! Write Us a Note! :)

Hall of Famer, Andre Dawson, Visits Our Class! :)

The ENTIRE class got his autograph!  He's one of three people in baseball history to bat 400 homeruns! Wow! What an honor! Thanks for visiting Mr. Dawson.

Principal for the day: NBC 6
Andre Dawson's Web Page
Hall of Fame
Andre Dawson's Commercial :)

Miami International Book Fair

It's finally here! 

MY LIFE AS A BOOK author, Janet Tashjian will be there! Janet Tashjian's website-new books!

Tell your parents to go to the parent blog for maps and schedules!

Click:

• Spelling Breathing Parents

• Street Fair

• Children's Alley -FUN!  :)   

• Destination Comics 

• Map with directions

Kids' Authors:  (Click on names.)

• Janet Tashjian, MY LIFE AS A BOOK author. Janet Tashjian
• David Kirk-Miss Spider and Nova's Ark David Kirk, link
• James Dean, Pete The Cat 
• William Joyce  George Shrinks,  Wilbur Robinson, Leaf Men, and more 

William Joyce's Site: The Guardians of Childhood Books- cool

No Matthew Reinhart :(  Meap

Visit:

Usborne books

Harper Collins

Tate's Comics

Thank you for sharing your culture.

Partial Solar Eclipse Sunday, November 3 (This Sun.)

Pretty cool. Check it out at sunrise and protect your eyes. :)


Some helpful hints for viewing:

1. Don't stare! NEVER stare at the sun.
2. Get Mylar at Michaels or hobby store to shield eyes if looking for prolonged periods.
3. If you know a welder, use his mask. :) 

Here's NASA's Guide for Safe Viewing

Sky and Telescope's Guide
Time and Date eclipse info

Space.com gives extra info
Exploratorium shows how to make your own with white posterboard-scroll down

Costume Day

It's the last day of October. You can wear your costumes and eat candy. It's also three days before we set our clocks back one hour...the class clock already did it by itself. :)

Here's some fun things to click on and learn:

• Pumpkin Guts video-The Happy Scientist
• NG Kids - Fruit Bats video Listen for the METAPHOR
• Interactive Bat Site
• Wow, check out what scientists did when hypothesizing about bats! What did they use to test bats?
• Okay, watch this spider trap and prepare this bat for dinner...FOR dinner! Warning=Creepy
• World's Fastest Pumpkin Carver-watch him carve Alan Shephard walking on the moon! Not the astronauts from your book, Moonshot, but cool!
• History.com-History of Halloween "Bet You Didn't Know"  So, what did you learn?
• Pumpkin facts video-interesting Where do you think pumpkins originated? Which country/continent?
• Candy Corn video Yum! Did you know the candy gets polished? How?

Since you were interested in these things, here you go...

• NG Kids-Beavers :) They're North America's ___________ __________.

Free Comic Book Day - This weekend!

Type your zip code to see the closets places!