“Good is now in a retirement home with nice and cool. Instead, we choose more efficient (sic detailed) words instead of good, cool or nice…for example, FABULOUS!” –a third grader Each week seems to be more FABULOUS than the last in the Pirates’ Cove. We have much to report, so here it goes… The highlight of the week was our trip to the municipal landfill, or the Monterey Regional Waste Management District (MRWMD), Highway 1 exit 412 in Marina (yes, your child wants to take you there!). We spent the day with the Goddess of Garbage, the Lady of the Landfill, the Worm Woman, otherwise known as Kimberle Herring, Director of Public Education. We took a detailed tour of the complicated yet beautifully managed site. In fact, it did not smell bad at all at the landfill! Did you know that by law, MRWMD must repurpose at least 50% of what comes to them for disposal? Their goal is to repurpose 75% in the near future. In order to achieve their goal, they need the help of the community (that would be…us!). Do you recycle, repurpose, compost, reduce or otherwise manage your household waste? Please visit the MRWMD website http://www.mrwmd.org with your child, as well as the California Hawking Club website http://www.calhawkingclub.org ("Hawking? What does hawking have to do with waste management?" you wonder. Your child knows!). Kimberle asked the children to please grow up to be innovative environmental thinkers, as we need future puppy problem solvers to think of new and better ways to manage our world’s waste production. Our math vocabulary this week included factors, addend, multiples and product. We continue to draw MART models for comparison and part-whole mathematical situations. Keep the heat on those multiplication facts! Thanks! We continue to retire tired, overused words and experiment with more precise and engaging ones, both in our writing and in our speaking. The adjectives good, awesome and cool have moved into the retirement home. Nice and fun are on a ‘round the world cruise. We are always on the lookout for replacement adjectives, so if your family brainstorms any, please bring them in. We will promote them to “better option adjectives!” Science: Soil and Water. History: Map Keys and Legends. Toolbox: Gratitude. Reading: Annotation using Post-its. Warmly, John and Nina | Memory Jogger
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