Wax Museum Photos... Look at the last few posts to see a few more!

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Wax Museum Pictures!

Wax Museum!

The students did an amazing job presenting their speeches as historical figures at our annual Wax Museum! I was so proud of their efforts to read biographies, research from various sources, take careful notes, organize their notes into an expository writing piece, and then write a meaningful speech to deliver at our museum. The students also created wonderful background displays and dressed so appropriately for their chosen figures! What a lot of effort for a great day! Take a look at some of the pictures from the museum!

SOL Test Dates

We all have busy lives, so here are some upcoming dates that you should mark on your calendar as you are planning your spring and early summer events! These are the dates of the SOL tests your child will be taking in Virginia Studies, Language Arts, and Mathematics this year.

Thursday, May 19 Virginia Studies

Tuesday, May 24 Language Arts

Thursday, June 2 Mathematics

I have also added more dates of interest to the "upcoming events" section of the blog! Take a look and add those to your calendar as well. There are a lot of fun and interesting events happening as the year seems to be winding up! (Get me some kleenex please!!!)

Eagle Watch!

For the past week, we have been keeping a watchful eye on a nest of eaglets who have been newly hatched via a live webcam! This nest of eaglets is located in Iowa, and the mom & dad have been active in the nest and giving us a great view of their behaviors as we are studying animals right now in science. This has been fascinating! If you are interested in seeing this live webcam from home, paste this link into your browser window to see the eagles for yourself! You can also get to this link by visiting my portaportal site (from either a link from the Keister page under portaportals or portaportal.com guest access jslykhuis). The link is under the "Cool Stuff" tab labeled eagle cam. Beware there is a short advertisement when you first open the webcam feed, but then the eagles will appear!

http://www.raptorresource.org/falcon_cams/index.html