hey, happy wednesday:)

read two books that i can immediate recall last week – one, mental math strategies, was a book on tricks one can learn to do math tricks – really, they’re not tricks, but you appear to be a genius – i’d say 90 percent of the book was a bit too technical for every day use, but there was 10 percent that was cool – like how to remember every mulitple of 11 (add the two numbers that are being multipled by 11 and then stick that number in the middle – so 23 x 11 is 253)

second book i read was on stopping readicide – death of reading – the author, an english teacher i’ve read books from before – thinks that testing is killing reading – and i would agree – he also thought that overteaching and underteaching a book can kill the joy of reading – again, i would agree – and that books at home should be read for fun – lots of good points in the book that i’m going to try and work into the classroom

i’m rereading the new testament so when i was out awaiting the start of the 114th boston marathon, i read almost the entire book of acts and most of romans – i had to check that book before i ran – i figured no one would steal my new testament in my bag – and they didn’t:)

read adverbs by daniel handler – clever writing at parts – definitely not a middle school book:)

guess those are the highlights – remember, you only have to write two journals this week since i was lazy in getting this one up

sincerely,
mafeld