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Friday List

Friday List

Well, it’s Friday and it was a good day. The students all looked very nice in their fall colours and we had lots of fun rolling pumpkins along the floor as one of our activities this afternoon.

Here is the Friday list for this week. This weeks list is about the exciting things that have happened since the year began:

  1. I loved the sound of laughter in the class as we got our hands deep into the pumpkins and brought up gobs of goop.
  2. Seeing the students excited about their reading at home was exciting.
  3. Seeing the first reading logs coming back signed and filled out was a good feeling!
  4. Being able to work with the wonderful Mrs. Davies and seeing how well she has fit into our class and how much the kids love her.
  5. Having such a caring class of students so willing to be friends, sharing and caring with and for each other.
  6. Enjoying a nice walk through the beautiful fall day with the students.
  7. Having the students working at home on their own initiative to create their own Oobleck machines was really cool!
  8. Seeing G.S buried deep in a book reading to her heart’s content and living through her books.
  9. Having B.L. try and convince the class that his theory is the best and why as he stands at the front of the room like a teacher pointing to the diagram he drew to prove his point.
  10. Witnessing to the children and seeing their hearts for God!
Student Homework and the Friday List

Student Homework and the Friday List

Hello!

Your children probably came home with some strange homework. Their homework was to get you, the parents, to figure out something. You have probably heard the phrase, “dig a hole to China”. However, I asked the students on Thursday whether that would actually happen. If you dug hole straight down through the core of the Earth from where you are in Chilliwack, would you end up in China?

Using a map of the world, the children all guessed where they thought they would end up. There were some close answers. Next, we used the site Antipodr.com, typed in our address and found out that, actually, we would not end up in China but would indeed probably need to take our snorkel gear and rubber ducky with us if we were going to actually dig this hole as we would indubitably find ourselves in a very watery situation.

But where is that place, you ask? Ahh, that is the question and your homework!!! Take a guess and check the site out. Please let us know where you thought you would end up by getting your child to bring your guess in on Monday. Also, if you can let us know how you tried to determine where you would end up!!

But that’s not all!!! There is a second part to this!!! Where would you have to be in order to actually dig a hole to China?

Some of the answers I was given by the children were interesting. Some of them said that you can’t dig a hole to China. So the answer was “nowhere, you can’t dig a hole to China!” I said, “But that wasn’t the question”. Of course, the children are right in that we can’t actually dig a whole to China. What made me think, though, was how tough it was to think outside the box; to imagine things outside the realms of possibility. How many times do we inhibit the imagination of our students and children and force them (inadvertently or on purpose) to always think practically or realistically instead of encouraging them to imagine other worlds, places and dreams? Do we empower them consistently to dream big dreams; to reach for the stars; to say to people who say we can’t do things, “Why are you limiting yourself?”

For my Friday list this week, here is a video you may have seen before but I thought might go with this topic. If you remember last Friday, I said that every Friday I would list things that I love or would like to do or things that have made me and the class happy. Here is today’s:

The Inaugural Friday List

The Inaugural Friday List

I thought that starting today, I would write a list of things I love or things I want to do; basically a list of things I have been thinking about, put into a list.

So here it is . . . . .

The Friday List

I LoveĀ  . . .

  1. Cooler weather and the promise of crackling autumn leaves and hot chocolate by a fire
  2. Christmas music (even in September!)
  3. Tiny baby kicks that get stronger every day
  4. Opening a box full of brand new technology
  5. Playing and adding things to this blog
  6. Taking pictures of beautiful scenery
  7. Sipping coffee in a coffee shop watching people going by and wondering about their lives
  8. Laughing with the students in the class.
  9. Showing my students neat things and watching their faces.
  10. Listening to beautiful music and getting swept away with memories.

Tell us about your favorite things. It can be just one thing or many things. Let’s get a big list going!!!!

Have a great weekend!!!!

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