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<\/a><\/p>\n1. Author Visit<\/span><\/strong> – Trudy Krisher is coming in just 3 days! We are so excited! In preparation for our discussion of her novel, Spite Fences, we have been preparing a display of items that would be found in Zeke’s Cart (a main character from the novel). Students are bringing in ‘white elephant’ type items that we will do a creative writing around under her guidance on Monday. Can’t wait to share that with you!<\/p>\n 3. Valentine’s Day Activities<\/span><\/strong> – On Friday of last week, my Language Arts class also completed this Valentine’s Day Close Reading<\/a> activity. We have been focusing on close reading and finding supporting evidence all year in all classes, so this was a good review. It’s also kind of interesting to learn facts you didn’t know about this popular holiday.<\/p>\n 4. Readbox Doors<\/span><\/strong> – You may have seen my earlier post about the Readbox Bulletin Board I put up in our cafeteria. Well our student-run art club\u00a0also made some additional Readboxes that could be displayed throughout the school. I think they turned out great!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I hope you had a great week and that you aren’t totally frozen or buried in piles of snow. It is bound to warm up soon, so hang in there!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>2. Assembly Line Production<\/span><\/strong> – We also did a fun activity this week in Social Studies, engaging in a hands-on experience with the pros and cons of assembly line production. I had students time themselves and compute average production time per item (and yes, they got to eat the final product, a cookie ‘burger’). Needless to say, this activity was a big hit! They loved it, and they even cleaned up after themselves and asked if we could do it again. I liked exploring this important element of our modern economy and discussing the benefits and potential chllenges it causes as well.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>5. Just For Fun<\/span><\/strong> – I thought I’d share with you a project I recently completed. If you follow this blog, you know I love to hand make all my gifts (whenever possible). I found this awesome pattern on steotch.com<\/a> and it just makes me chuckle every time. My husband is always making ‘Ermahgerd’ jokes, so I mostly made this for him. If you like ironic, snarky cross-stitching, then head on over to steotch’s website or etsy page<\/a> for some laughs.<\/p>\n