It’s October 30. 
Today is “National Candy Corn Day.”  What’s the order of the colors on a typical piece of candy corn?  Do you remember?

Trivial Fact of the Day: The Eiffel Tower shrinks 6 inches in the winter. 

Interesting Quote of the Day:  “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”  --Maya Angelou (American author and poet)
Vocabulary Word of the Day:  stupefy (verb) – This action word means to overwhelm with amazement or to shock with surprise.  Which trivial facts from previous Sacred Writing Time slides stupefied you enough to make you remember them?

Totally Terrific Thursday

Today, we will begin our new unit of vocabulary. Then, read one of my all-time favorite stories, All Summer in a Day. I should have video of the pumpkin smashing.