CELEBRATIONS!
CAUGHT BEING GOOD!

If we only pay attention to kids when they're doing something wrong, they'll keep doing the wrong thing to get our attention. Show your children how proud you are of their behavior by telling us how you caught them in the act ... of being good.

Submitted by Teacher:
Thanks David for the pencil donation!                              Good Job Math Essentials Period 2 & 6 for the work on Times Tables!
Thanks Brandon for donating the Kleenex and ream of paper!                                          Thanks Nick for the ream of paper!
I appreciate all parents/guardians who came to the Open House on Sept. 25th.  Thanks!                                                            Thanks Arden for the Kleenex!                 Periods 1&5 well done on the first Check-up Quizzie!   

Thank you to the anonymous student and parent who dropped off two reams of printer paper and a box of kleenex in the office for me on October!!!
 


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Let's celebrate Pi Day!  March 14th (or 3-14).


A very brief history of pi:

Pi is a very old number. We know that the Egyptians and the Babylonians knew about the existence of the constant ratio pi, although they didn't know its value nearly as well as we do today. They had figured out that it was a little bigger than 3.  For more, see A History of Pi by Petr Beckman (Dorset Press).

The modern symbol for pi  was first used in our modern sense in 1706 by William Jones.  Pi (rather than some other Greek letter like Alpha or Omega) was chosen as the letter to represent the number 3.141592... because the letter pi in Greek, pronounced like our letter 'p', stands for 'perimeter'.   (from mathforum.org)


 March 14th - PI DAY  The digits in this date (3-14) correspond with the first 3 numbers of pi.

1. Write and sing a song or poem about pi.

2. Watch, listen or read other songs, poems or videos about pi.

3. Do math activities to estimate pi.

4. Make a pi necklace.

5. Stand in a circle and chant pi!

6. Play pi on the pi-ano.

7. Find out who holds the current record for most digits memorized and practice memorizing the digits of pi yourself.

8. Convert things into pi (i.e., what is your pi age?)

9. Have a Pi Day party with pi-zza, pi-e and pi-neapple juice, and don’t forget a pi- ñanta.

10. End the day with a pi walk, run or hike (3.14 km or miles) to burn off all the pi-e!

Let’s make March 14 a Pi Day to remember!