Monday...the day before my big needle day!

Evening all.  Hope you are all enjoying this mild weather before it gets really cold again.  I think I even saw people playing basketball with t-shirts on?!! You are crazy!

Today we started with coordinates and used the ELMO for the first time!  I was so glad it worked out, and happy that it set up so easily.  On another happy note, many of you got the idea behind the four quadrants and were able to start to comfortably plot points on a grid.  I am looking forward to your artwork for Wednesday and the other pictures are super difficult, so we'll see if you are all pros in the end.

After that we started our bullying unit prompted by the Showdown 2.0 performance on Thursday.  We read a story called "Dear Bully" and I cried while reading the recount of Laurie's bullying experience.  I was glad to hear many of you sharing your ideas and thoughts about Laurie's experience and how she was at peace now with her bully now that she was an adult.  You had a writing response assigned, however the way you wish to respond to the story is up to you.  You may write a journal, a letter to the bully or to Laurie and you may choose write an apology in the voice of a bystander that witnessed Laurie's bullying.  What is most important is that you get your ideas down on paper because your final assignment is going to reflect all of your feelings from the readings this week and your reflections will be a huge resource to you.  The excerpt for tomorrow is a poem, and I know you will like it.

This afternoon, I didn't really see you other than health.  I want you to think about your health journals and the food groups that you may be lacking in or eating too much of.  This will inform how we may approach our PSAs for the younger kids...and if I had your attention you would know that we are going to make films based on our data.

To finish off the day you had gym and Science with Mrs. Nicholson.  You finished off the film and you need to have your notes on machines done.  You also have a project due in French coming up and hopefully you are staying on task for that.

For tomorrow:
Math- mouse coordinate worksheet
Language - Showdown 2.0 journal, Dear Bully written assignment & SOTM
History - Soft due date Thursday! Presentations start next week!
Science - Movie notes
Art - t-shirt design
Health - Ideas for PSAs
French - Research projects

Okay, won't see you tomorrow as I am at my appointment, be good and have a great day. See you Wednesday. :)

Lucy and her friend after they had their faces painted at the Police Christmas Party.  She was a unicorn and her friend was a butterfly! 

Journal from today

Lucy riding a crazy motorcycle at the party on the weekend!