January 13 in Room 11

• Students had music first thing in the morning.
• The second graders are learning about Martin Luther King. They are listening to a book about him by Linda Lowery. They made a chart about what they knew about him already and what they want to learn. Later they will add a section to the chart labeled "What I Learned."
• Facts about Martin Luther King, what happened to him and what he accomplished and why generated many thoughtful questions and observations.
• Still working on place value in math.
• Tom Rumreich, of the Oregon department of Fish and Wildlife visited Room 11. He demonstrated the life cycle of the salmon by using puppets, explained, with great animation, some basics about salmon, and gave directions on what each child would be doing when they received their own salmon egg:
• Name it
• Hold it gently
• Walk it carefully to the special cold fish tank in the fourth grade hall
• Dip it ten times into the water of the tank to acclimate it to the temperature
• Drop it in
• This rite was carefully performed shortly after Mr. Rumreich's departure.
• There are now twenty-some infant salmon named and loved by some second graders which are growing and getting ready to be launched into the waters of the world.