Inspiration!

Our inspiration came from many places today!


Sergeant Cross visited with our first official D.A.R.E. lesson on tobacco use. He talked to us about the negative health effects of smoking. Since we are all still young, it is important to know that tobacco will affect our growth and development if we would choose to use it. Cigarettes contain 200 known poisons, and one powerfully addictive substance called nicotine. Of the nearly half a million people who die each year from tobacco use, most of them began using it before the age of 18! (It is illegal to sell tobacco products to anyone under the age of 18.) Unfortunately, there are nonsmokers who die each year from breathing other people's smoke! We need to resist any temptation to smoke or use tobacco.

Mr. Pietras worked our bodies in Phys. Ed. class today! We have been learning how to play volleyball in his class! He has also been encouraging our participation in the upcoming Jump-a-thon, which will be next Friday afternoon. Please remember to submit your forms and any collected money to participate in this worthwhile fundraiser for the Heart Association.

Mrs. Mac was excited to receive the last few books we were waiting for to begin Good Night, Maman. We each received a book and role assignment for next Thursday's discussions in McD's Cafe.

Our new Promethean board was hooked up by our Technology Department today! We are excited to use it for our lessons next week! When we walked into class today, it was lit up and ready to go! Mrs. Mac spent some time playing with it today during our related arts classes.

Mrs. Haddox continued to pound away at measurement today! We used our protractors to practice measuring angles. We learned about acute, right, obtuse, and straight angles. We also identified and classified polygons. Using the Promethean Board, we solved problems on angles and drew polygons.


Since today was lab day, our groups had a full period to work on our assigned U.S. President for kidblog. Mr. Abbondanza is very interested in our blogs, so we won't be the only ones visiting each others' blogs to read and type comments. Mr. Abbondanza will be leaving his comments as well!

Our third and final Benchmark tests for Math and Reading are being given within the next two weeks of school. Then, we will be getting our minds in gear for the PSSA Tests! Bring it!

Homework:
Language Arts - Quizzes will be on Tuesday for the assigned words and story about Elizabeth Blackwell. Read pages 1-45 (Chapters 1-9) in Good Night, Maman. Complete your assigned role for next Thursday.
Social Studies - Kidblog assignment is due on Tuesday!'
Math- R 9-6 and R 9-6

NO SCHOOL ON MONDAY, DUE TO OUR OBSERVANCE OF PRESIDENT'S DAY! DON'T FORGET TO SELL YOUR SARRIS CANDY TO SUPPORT OUR SPECIAL PROGRAMS AND EVENTS AT N.S.I.S.