Playing Balderdash as a class activity can be done to help build confidence in vocabulary. I always sold it as a special event, and never as a learning activity. It could be a reward at the end of the week, for good behaviour, or finished assignments. Or a way to take up some time, if everything else is done.
Moderate days and cool nights characterize Bendâs year-round climate. Because of high altitude and clear air, nighttime temperatures average 30F to 40F below daytime highs. Evenings are generally cool, even in the summer, requiring sweaters or jackets. Annual temperature extremes show that only one year out of five has a temperature colder than -17F or warmer than 100F. Frost can occur during any summer month. Precipitation The average annual precipitation in Bend is less than 12 inches, over half falls between November and February, often as snow. Brief thunderstorms usually provide most of the light summer rain. The average annual snowfall is 33.8 inches. Snow depth in Bend exceeds 24 inches in only one winter out of twenty. At Mt. Bachelor, the ski resort 22miles southwest of Bend snow normally reaches depths of 160 to 180 inches. Sunshine: Bend has the highest average number of sunny days in the state. Clear days average 158 days per year
The average sliding 31-day rainfall during April in North Bend is very rapidly decreasing, starting the month at 4.7 inches, when it rarely exceeds 8.7 inches or falls below 2.0 inches, and ending the month at 2.6 inches, when it rarely exceeds 4.6 inches or falls below 0.9 inches.