October 1st: Frolio's Calaveras County Half Day

Wednesday, October 1, the White Team hosted its very own "Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County Day". For those of you who may have missed it, we made origami frogs with Mrs. Peruzzi, played a human game of frogs and flies with Mr. Jefferies, and modeled the lengths of some of the world's longest rivers on the football field...with students. One of the highlights of the day was the frog jump itself. It was extremely interesting to see how creative some of you got with your jumping set-ups and frogs! I hope you enjoyed the activity.

If you want to learn more about the real annual Calaveras County Frog Jump in California, check out this link here. Every May, people come from around the nation to compete with their amphibious athletes. I'm tempted to try it myself. The world record was set in 1986 by "Rosie the Ribbeter", who leaped an astounding 21' 5 3/4". Measure that out! The cash prize for breaking the record is $5000. Not too shabby.

Congratulations to our own top frogs and their handlers, who are listed below...

7J - Lilly Pad: 18.62 meters
7E - Jumper: 38.50 meters
7B - Leonardo: 41.70 meters
7C - Da Green Machine: 22.86 meters
7V - Waldo: 25.80 meters

Our next story by Mark Twain is his wild and crazy spoof of the detective novel, The Stolen White Elephant. Look out!