Hello all!
Another tremendous thank you to everyone for your help and support with our Empty Bowls project. The auction closes tomorrow at 3:30. I will have the kids make the final calculations on the amount of money that we raised. So far, we are well over fifteen hundred dollars! I am so impressed with how much the kids have put into this project, and the pride they showed on Saturday night. I received several emails today complimenting the students on their work and genuine giving spirits. Pictures from Saturday night are being uploaded as we speak.
We did a fun exercise with our Stargirl books today. We read my most favorite piece of writing in all of literature today--Chapter 17 in Stargirl. In this chapter, Stargirl takes the main character, Leo to her "enchanted place." This place is in the middle of the desert, with nothing exciting around. In this place, Stargirl imagines a big pink eraser, erasing her away--erasing away her thoughts of worry and stress, and making her feel like a valued part of the universe. We tried this activity as a class, just laying down on the floor with our eyes closed, focusing on the calm simplicity of the things around us. We reflected in our journals about where our "enchanted places" are--where we can be our most authentic selves. Many students wrote powerful, heartfelt entries about their bedrooms, sports arenas, being alone on the ice rink, fixing cars in the garage, and being snuggled in their favorite blanket like a tortilla being the places where they are their truest selves.
This is a busy week for us. Tomorrow morning we will have Spanish and art with Mrs. Lisa, and in the afternoon we will have our final book club for the month of December. Wednesday we have art, a justice circle with special guests, gym, and then in the afternoon we have concert practice. Thursday we will have concert practice once again and then we will be making and baking our gingerbread dough. Thursday evening we will have our concert, and Friday afternoon we will have our final Mix It Up class for session one. Whew!!!
Remember to bring in a bag of candy for gingerbread houses by Friday. Next week we will be ice skating at the new rinks by school for gym class...we will be sending home permission slips and what to do about skates--we will also have plenty of extra skates so don't worry if you don't have any skates. More to come on this later.
Post your ideas for a fun movie to watch next week as a fun activity. I will go to the video store this weekend to pick one out.
Check out the 3rd graders tomorrow evening on the 5:00 news on Kare 11. They will be bringing all of the Toys For Tots donations to the studio tomorrow. Go Footprints!
I hope I am not forgetting anything. I had lots to tell you tonight.
Remember---book projects are due Friday! Let me know if you need any help. You are always welcome to email me with questions.
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i have nooo clue what movie we should watch. maybe if its out yet we could watch the new prince caspian
I think we should watch witch of blackbird pond
thats a really good idea carly if there is a movie of it
i think we should watch madagascar or something. maybe even like ratatouille.that's a good movie. or
rv. wait we saw that already last year. hmmm... *yawn* i'm tired. so back to movies. WE NEED TO SEE A GOOD MOVIE. does anyone know if they will have snacks at the movie party? if not, someone bring something because i always get hungry when i see a movie. so on the movie topic, these are all the movies i want to see. in theaters you know.1. Paul Blart Mall Cop. 2.Bedtime Stories. 3. Marley and Me. 4.17 Again and last but not least, 5. hotel for dogs. Wow this is the longest blog post i've ever done. i'm just doing this because i'm bored.i'm going to wrap it up now because i just thoght of something to do. KEEP IT REAL!
P.S. Craig Out!
we should watch "Witch of Blackbird Pond" or "Prancer"
huh
someone write a post, i'm bored
me too
"Prancer"
i think we should watch National Treasure!!!
national treasure? yeah that is a goog movie. but isn't it like PG-13?
craig made a long comment
this is awesome because now we're on WINTER BREAK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WOO-HOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i'm bored
i'm bored
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