October 29

We did a lot of different things today.  We used K'nex to explore simple machines.  We started off with the correct number of pieces for our machine, but they were the wrong ones.  We had to trade with other groups to get the right pieces.  The trick was we had to do our trading - silently.  When we finished we had to explain our machine to the class.  We had gym this morning - we played Murder Ball.  In the game we have to hit as many people as we can with the balls.  In French today, we recorded ourselves reading "Napoleon" in French.  We also looked at the graphs of precipitation and temperature on our islands.  We started writing conclusions about the graphs.  We are looking forward to tomorrow and the Halloween parade.