Storyboards with Solutions

Class meetings this year have been productive and fun!  Most of us believe we've seen a difference in the way students are treating each other.  This is not to say that bullying situations do not exist, but a good many of us feel better prepared to deal with situations in a positive, firm way.  Today, we discussed one of the most frequent areas for problems to occur, the school bus.  In our groups, we worked on storyboards depicting a real situation (without names) or a reasonably common one.  Our boards had to end with a positive solution for the situation.  There were great conversations heard about the room, and everyone seemed to be thinking of the best way to solve the problems.  There was great team work!  Our storyboards will be presented next week in our meeting.  Enjoy the slideshow!

In Language Arts, we enjoyed a wrap-up with final discussion of 'From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler.'  We enjoyed the story, and today we had fun thinking about what lesson the author conveyed to us, which character we most identified with, and so on.  Some students expressed that they wished for a sequel to the story.  There were some questions they wished the author would have answered.  We are all looking forward to sharing this story with classes from Cecil Intermediate through our wax museum project!  Fun!

Homework:

Social Studies - Review Ch. 1 East Asian Geography.  We will play a game review tomorrow, and the test will be next Tuesday.

Wellness - Complete questions 1-4 (pages 332-335) for tomorrow

Reading - The final test for our novel will be tomorrow.