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“Every Who down in Who-ville liked Christmas a lot … but the Grinch, who lived just north of Corcoran did not!”

I have been such a slacker this year at updating my blog. I am only a few minutes away from popping a roast-beast in the oven, but i thought i could use this time to say Merry Christmas…blah, blah, blah…

Yes, I am a TOTAL grinch this year… just not feelin’ the Christmas Spirit. I am normally all about Christmas: the lights, the decorations, the music, friends, family, GIFTS. Seriously…there are NO better holidays than Christmas! Don’t know why i’m in a funk???

Just am.

Anyway, today we are having Christmas dinner at my house, and presents after that. Santa will come tonight, and the tree comes down tomorrow. I know! Tomorrow’s Christmas! Whatevah! The tree is still coming down!

What are you doing? Drop me a post and fill me in on what you and your family are doing for the holidays…

Merry Christmas from H-ville,

The Grinch

(Have I ever mentioned that this is one of my MOST FAVORITIST MOVIES EVAH!!!)

Yesterday was one of those proud to be an American moments.

I came to Corcoran because Art, Alec and Mia wanted to come see the Cotton Parade. (Actually, I did too, but I had work to do in my classroom.) Anyway, while I was working, I hear the sound of fighter jets passing over. Because that is the coolest thing ever, I ran outside to check it out. Not only was there one, but four. Then all of the sudden, there were four more, then two more, then three more. What??? I thought I counted 13 at one point. They kept circling over Corcoran, round and round. Everytime they flew over, I ran outside. It wasn’t even like I was showing my kids. I just think it’s cool.  At one point, I was outside and the jets were flying in two large clusters. There were 19 or 21 of them. It was hard to tell because sometimes they look like thier stacked and it’s hard to count.

At one point, one of the jets broke away from the pack and flew really low over the top of the town. I figured they were doing a “fly by” over the top of the Kids Day Festival at the park. Anyway, the jet flew over the top of my class.  The building was shaking, and the sound was deafening. Goosebumps. It’s times like that that make you feel proud to live in America.

p.s. I’m working on adding music to this blog. The perfect song to add here would be Proud to be an American.

She was sent to us for a reason, and I am grateful.

We could laugh together, cry together, fight with each other and still we would say,

“But I love you though…”

Last week was the Up with People Assembly at our school. During our two hour class presentation, Gina wrote the following quote on the whiteboard,

“It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And, it isn’t enough to believe in it, one must work at it.”

                                                                                       –Eleanor Roosevelt

What did she mean by that? What does that quote mean to you?

Here is the link to thier blog. Also, each one of the people from our room has thier own blog.

Matthew Erley, (I forgot where he was from.) ;-(

Gina Herrera, Mexico?

Yuri, Japan

Kellys-Venezuela

Save the date! Wednesday, August 29, 2007

6th graders will have a grade level meeting in Cooper Hall from 6:00-6:30pm. Students and parents can visit classrooms from 6:30-8:00pm. I hope to see you all there!

They know why! Thank you again Mr. Rowe, Brandon and Jana! I appreciate it!

I will update this post as I learn all of the dates. But, here is what I know so far.

August 14th: Parents can come to John Muir to pay for PE uniform and purchase yearbooks.

August 15th: Teachers return to work after a short summer!

August 21st: First day of school for students! Yippee!

August 29th: BACK TO SCHOOL NIGHT! (Go to this post.)

Make sure to stop in to welcome Mrs. Rutter!

 http://crutter1.edublogs.org/

I have spent the last week at JM moving all my stuff in. First to one room, then another! Ugh! ;-( The more I move things around, the more it starts to feel like home though! I want my room to have a different look and feel than my room at MT. For the students who had me last year, I don’t want it to feel like fifth grade all over again. Know what I mean?

I will be there pretty much everyday from now on. Lots of work to do before next week! I not only have to finish setting up the room, but i have lots of lesson plans to work on! I have to figure out how to hammer all these standards into your heads! (hint: see picture)

Can’t wait to see you all!

Hi guys,

Just thought I would post a quick note on the kinds of supplies that you will need in sixth grade…These are the supplies that you will be required to have at all times in MY classroom.  When you run out of something, it is YOUR responsibility to replenish it! You need to know that other teachers may reqiure other items. For example, you will  need a protractor for math, but not for language. Annissa and Alec can’t wait to go shopping for school supplies!

REQUIRED:

One 3-inch “D-ring” binder (Some language arts teachers will provide this, but if you are in my room, you will need to bring one.)

One zippered pencil pouch. (It must be able to attach to binder rings.)

8 binder dividers

Hole reinforcements

College ruled paper

#2 pencils and erasers (many students like pencil top erasers)

colored pencils & crayons

blue or black pens

scissors

pencil sharpener that catches shavings

pink, yellow & green highlighters

glue sticks

ruler

Optional items:

Protractor

USB Flash Drive (All Language Arts students will have laptops to use at school.)

[Update: All classes EXCEPT6th grade language arts! ;-(]

It would also be helpful to have a quiet place to work at home with access to a dictionary and a thesaurus.

p.s. If you are unable to bring these supplies, please let me know when school starts. Also, if you would like to donate extra items on the list, that would be awesome!!!