Today in 6A & 6B

ENGLISH: Students peer edited their letters to Santa. To be best prepared to submit tomorrow, students should have all edits completed and be able to read through their final draft.

LITERATURE: As we started our final chapter of "The Wednesday Wars" we had a fire drill, which left us 9 pages short of finishing the book. These will be completed upon our return to classes in January. From there we will assign our final assessment for this book.

RELIGION: In our discussion we tried to answer the question of, "How might we act to make our families happy and holy this Christmas?" A lot of student answers kept circling back to some similar terms: respect, care, showing appreciation, love. Each of these ideas are umbrella terms that host an abundance of real actions and nuanced messages that we need to be conscious of and more acutely aware of. We talked about emotional quotient (EQ) and how understanding what someone needs emotionally is often times more important than necessarily being correct. This holiday season I hope we can all keep in mind these words: "Honesty without tact is cruelty," or in the motto for this classroom, "When faced with the choice of being right or being kind, choose kind."

SOCIAL STUDIES: Students spent the entirety of class coloring their personal mandalas. These are an expression of each student's personality in many ways; the images they are drawn to and the manner in which they complete them speak to their overall personality in many ways (not exclusively though). Tomorrow we will have them displayed outside our classroom so that our parents can see the hard work we have been putting in.

MATH (8:00 class) Accelerated math  (9:00 class) Chp 4 Test