Saturday, April 26, 2008

HOORAY FOR UNIT 5! COURAGE = GUTS = BRAVERY

I am so proud of the students in Room 11! We kicked off our COURAGE unit on Monday, April 21st, with students writing drafts of stories (narratives) about a time when they had courage and then another, completely opposite story, about a time when they LACKED COURAGE.

Mr. Gilbert was kind enough to sub on Tuesday, EARTHDAY, when Ms. Gilbert had to go downtown to represent LAUSD DEPT OF HEALTH SERVICES/NETWORK FOR A HEALTHY CALIFORNIA LAUSD & CSGN (CALIFORNIA SCHOOL GARDEN NETWORK) at a huge Earthday celebration. Everyone enjoyed seeing Leo and his new haircut.

But our week also provided us with a lot of emotional challenges. We had a lot of sad things happen, and scary things happen, and we also began to understand how COURAGE means COMPASSION and that WE ARE ALL ONE!

We spent a lot of time watching the memes on the internet (Global Mindshift) and are beginning to understand that we all must learn to get along right away, or our planet is in big trouble.

We had a lot of guest teachers in our class this past week, which was so cool! It's so great having two really good teachers collaborating to help all the students learn faster.

I want to thank Mr. Siry, our School Principal, for somehow finding the money to fund a second certified teacher in Room 11 for 2 days last week.

And now....for the first ROOM 11 HERO OF THE WEEK......
may I present.....


Here is the speech he is memorizing this weekend to present to the class (and Mr. Siry) on Monday, April 28th!

Hero of the Month!


Our Hero's Speech for Monday, April 28th!

I am sorry, class, for giving a really, really bad example. I shouldn’t be doing this. Now I realize that what I did might happen to me! And someone might tell everybody something bad about me sometime, and it would hurt my feelings, too.

I realize how bad it feels to get embarrassed.

By: 2nd Grader
Presented to Room 11 in honor of his classmate, who helped his friend to understand how it feels to be hurt by words and actions of others.

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