winners of the Bible Jeopardy challenge today – don’t get me started on all the mistakes we made – starting with the team name…
“Running with Phidippides” – amazing story of the 1946 boston marathon winner – he was from greece – survived the nazi occupation for five years – five years of starvation for his people – after seven years off running – he decided december ’45 to run and win boston – in four months time – and he went out and did just that – which is truly remarkable – very inspiring story
“eight keys” – okay, lil bri – help an old man out – this was elem BOB, right??? it was better than anything at the middle school – and ironically about middle school – 6th grade – but it wasn’t great – at all
“the last season” – awesome book about a political strategist who at 60, took a fall off and took his 95-year old father – and 86 year old mother – around for ole miss’s 2013 football season – included flashbacks of going to the games in the 1960s – just a heart-warming amazing read – all my guys that love football and have watched it with their dads would love this book
“swimming upstream” – i’ve got a ton of ideas from this book for teaching next year – just for starters… i want to teach everyone to be a Detective – rather than get a bad grade on a quiz and say “I’m a failure/loser/never going to get this” – treat it like evidence – and you’re a detective – would the evidence really confirm that you’re a failure/loser – or would it just say that you didn’t do well on one quiz? for my kids that overtrust their emotions, i think the detective thing is a good way to pull back from that – thoughts???
maf
Probably not first, but I’ll try…first..?
What!?!? NO team names as the Food-Bringing Ravens? Shame…
First!
runaway winner – master vic:)
billy was spam – for some reason today – maybe b/c he’s pushing explore.com – dunno
yep, it was the lightening bolts vs. the mountain lions – grade school kids aren’t the best namers
billy, you’ll appreciate this – we carried a 29,000-27,000 lead into final jeopardy – which was left in the captain’s hands of both teams – the girl of the opposite team wagered first – 5,000 – our fearless captain – some loser fifth grade boy:) wagered 1,000 – i was livid…
boys are supposed to be smart at math i thought…
The actual runaway was Riley from Inside Out… They made us go and watch it Saturday. We all deduced that Joy was a jerk.
there you go spoiling another film for the kiddies…
story from binder girl 2
“If we’re going to break into their camp, it’s going to be through those band aids,” Bert told Detective one day.
It was true. The “band aids,” the Associate Members of the Our Lady of the Marching Band in Charge of Custodial Duties was their official title – and much longer than “band aids” – yes, they could be bought, particularly on fasting days.
St. K back in Volume 1 of her devotionals established that a “fat band is a bad band” – the culminating maxim of a chapter that started with the heart-rending tale of a small boy named Nathan who ate his way to happiness – or rather tried to until he died somewhere in 4x-ville – rather than just accepting that he was awesome and loved because he was marching for Hello Kitty – and for St. K.
In lieu of sending chocolates to honor Nathan’s death, St. K thought it best to have Fasting Days, days when her adherents would give up the pleasures of food to concentrate on the pleasures of music – and marching.
For the seasoned vets, Fasting Days were a spiritual discipline that drew them closer to Hello Kitty, marching band, music, and all good things in life. For the associate members, the band aids, fasting days were torture.
If we’ve established anything in this story so far, Detective was not above torture as a means to an end.
Olive-A liked Inside Out. She wanted to take us, but I REFUSED to BOW DOWN to her RULE!!
Scholars bowl update… One of our rooms here in alabaster has two dead carpet areas… I think a fight broke out in a round
still stuck at alabaster
now, i’m in a session with elem teachers – in the tech lab – we took a test to look at data
25% of them didn’t know a snake was NOT a mammal – they thought a whale wasn’t a mammal
50% of them got the math problem 40 + (40 x 0) + 1 = wrong – half of them said one…
…*eyes widen**mentally does the math* Oh!! I get it! I get a math problem! Hahaha world! I will rule!!
the day didn’t get much better – but now i’m back in my room at CMS choosing which toys and pictures go up for the year – sadly, a seventh grade billy showing off his buzzer set doesn’t make the cut anymore
out of sight, out of mind… 🙂
HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY!!!