Those wishing to visit Room 28 Monday, January 23, 2012

Hello folks,

Some students have e-mailed and posted their wish to visit their old classroom today sometime between 10:30 a.m. and 1 p.m.

Our principal, Mr. Cruz, says that is fine as long as you send me an e-mail at rpalassou@pleasanton.k12.ca.us so we can forward your name to the office for you to sign in. Mr. Cruz also asks that if you visit you are given permission to be in room 28, and he asks you not wander around the campus unsupervised. Thank you.

I'm grateful you'd be so kind as to want to visit.

Mr. P

Fun math facts site

Fun!

Room 28 loves Kaitlin Gallagher!

We are following the blog of one of our favorite people as she is treated for leukemia.

You can follow it here. Go Kaitlin!

From Science Club students

Note from Mr. Palassou: The winds were too high to launch, in retrospect, and the maximum strength line allowed by the federal government broke as the wind whipped the balloon about. Off it went into the sky.

We try our final attempt to launch in 45 minutes. Full of anticipation, excitement and hope that our payload, including some microbial soil crusts collected by a NASA scientist, will fly! Winds are much calmer this morning, the moon is setting, and in the west a planer arises.

Here are some notes from the students about yesterday:

Hi we are having so much fun here! Our first balloon launch was unsuccessful; it got away! We are having lots of adventures, seeing amazing things. See you Weds. -Lauren

Cross your fingers that the extra balloon won't get away from us again! Winds are crazy at night, we almost got blown off a bluff!
ISOLDE

We were all disappointed when the balloon got away, but we had loads of fun & adventures. Kennedy's dad taught us to do back flips!-Lilly

We saw a crashed air plane at the lava tubes! Cool. -sarah

HI! We, the advance group went on dirt roads that were tilted and drove for two hours but could not track the first launch attempt. Hopefully tommorow we will succeed.
-KENNY

The entire day was fun: the crazy tip and swerve drive, the tall slide down the dunes, the huge heights and crashes on the lava rock and everything else.
-??????

Bye.

But then the wind started...up to 49mph. Not good.

Everything went well this morning

Pre-flighting is on at Zzyzx

As I write this, fifth-grade students from Valley View's Science Club are pre-flighting the DREAMS-11 balloon for tomorrow morning's flight, and building a mylar rotation inhibitor in the hope of receiving better GPS signals while chase teams are tracking the flight.

Visit Monday, January 24, 10:30 a.m. - 1 p.m.

Mr. P's past students are welcome to help make new giant Pyramids of Success in Room 28 from 10:30 a.m until 1 p.m. next Monday. Please meet one of my volunteer moms in the office lobby, and get a visitor's badge, then come on down to the classroom.

I'm looking forward to seeing you!

Photos of John Wooden

Pictures from through the years.