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| Welcome to Mr. Mac's web page. This is a TEACHER'S web page, it is not the official DATA web site. >>> www.oocities.org/teachers2teachers/data.html <<< To visit the Official DATA Website, go to www.downtownacademy.org This page is www.geocities.om/teachers2teachers/data.html SEE BELOW for our 1000 books LIST (data1000) CLICK HERE for STUDENT WEB PAGES datastudents Click here for another list of web pages by Students oocities.com/teachers2teachers/dataintro2 INTERIM REPORTS Click Here Word list (We'll add the words -- just keep going down the list until you find the words that we are working on this week.) August, week 3: convex, concave, except, accept, compliment, complement. Here are some ideas America's Promise: DATA is participating in this program. we teach marketable skills. If you have suggestions to add to the list >>>> 954 646 8246 PLEASE CONTACT ME. I'm looking for parents who want to explain their work history. Money does not come out of an ATM> It is created somehow. I'm especially interested in entrepreneurs and people who work for entrepreneurs. THANK YOU FOR SPEAKING AT D.A.T.A. Mrs. Abrams, City of Fort Lauderdale, who spoke about environmental crimes. She's an enforcement officer. She spoke on August 25. Mr. Clarence McKee, attorney and mediator, former owner of a TV station. Sept. 17. Mrs. Rudnick, Real Estate investor, Sept. 20. Mr. Earl Morril, insurance executive, October 1 Mrs. Rudnick, private investigator, October 4 The following people have agreed to speak in the near future to DATA students Desmond Levin, entrepreneur and operator of a private school Rina Levin, travel industry consultant Paolo Quaglia, sole proprietor, massage therapist (he's traveled to more than a dozen countries, practicing his craft) Bob Lietz, entrepreneur (media company). THANK YOU for your donations of computers Bob Lietz TALK Language School C. Daniels (for your expertise) Mrs. Abrams Katie D. Thank you for your donations of books D. Mytryshyn R. Gart V. Moran Cristina Garcia THANK YOU for volunteering time at the school (If your name doesn't appear here, it's only because I forgot to put it here) Mrs. Rudnick Mrs. Abrams Mrs. Patton Mr. Daniels (for your computer expertise) What happened this week? Week 1 - Our first assembly. We started using Odyssey's diagnostic tests. Week 2 - The first videos were shot by students. Week 3 - Students began using the Odyssey lessons. Computers were donated by TALK school, students learned how to use videos on CDs. Week 4 - Mrs. Mytryshyn introduced "the Lion, the Witch and Wardrobe." Week 5 - First visit to the Main Library. Week 6 - Visit to the Art Museum. Mrs. Mytryshyn introduced "Homeless to Harvard" (the Liz Murray story). Week 7 - The week ended on Oct.1. Week 8 - Mr. Greenblum starts showing pointillism portraits (created on grids). The new tables from Mrs. Rudnick arrived. So did the Internet. More than 35 web sites were started. The 8th grade had a second visit to the library. There was a talk about responsibility. "After admitting his mistake with the nation, Dan Rather should directly apologize to the president." The theme for October is RESPONSIBILITY We need to admit our mistakes. We also need to speak with the person we have offended and ask for forgiveness. When humans hurt each other, they must directly apologize to the people they wronged. Apologizing is tough because it requires people to admit their weekanesses. It's easy to displace blame or just utter the words. It's difficult to make reparations and change one's ways. --Sun-Sentinel, September 25, 2004, page 1, Tropical Life. Dice cards -- practice mental math while playing a game. The article for August... What did her husband do to create a job in Greece? She started a substitute teacher… and look where she is now! http://www.sun-sentinel.com/sports/sfl-liolyjarvisaug23,0,4460088.story She's a Greek goddess in her adopted land By Peter Carlson The Washington Post August 23, 2004 ATHENS, Greece · Uh-oh, it looks like Yvette Jarvis is in trouble. Three cops are huddled around her car and they don't look happy. This isn't surprising. Jarvis has stopped her silver Hyundai right in front of the Grande Bretagne, the fanciest hotel in Athens, a place so security-conscious during these Olympics that you have to pass through a metal detector to enter the lobby. Nobody can stop here, not even for a minute. Jarvis knows that, but she wants to pick up some folks. So she starts sweet-talking the cops in her Brooklyn-accented Greek, smiling, gesticulating, laughing. Pretty soon, the cops are smiling, too. Jarvis buys enough time to pick up her passengers. She pulls away, smiling and waving to the cops. "I do my celebrity thing," she explains, "and they leave me alone." Jarvis, 46, is famous here -- a one-name celebrity like Oprah or Madonna, known to Greeks simply as Yvette. She's the black Renaissance woman from Brooklyn who has done nearly everything since she arrived in 1982: professional basketball, modeling, TV commercials, a talk show, a sitcom, nightclub singing. Now she's a member of the Athens City Council, elected in 2002. "After 22 years, I'm one of them," she says. "They don't see me as black or American. They just see Yvette. Yvette is Yvette." Yvette is punching numbers into her cell phone and steering through the horrendous Athens traffic while somehow pointing out the new greenery planted for the Olympics. "We planted about a half-million trees -- no joke -- all over Athens," she says. "We spent a fortune." She parks, schmoozes with the parking lot attendant, then walks into the National Garden. The park is a cool oasis of trees, but Jarvis thinks it should be better. "It belongs to three different agencies so, as you can imagine, nobody takes responsibility for it," she says, sounding very much like a city official. She heads toward the Zappeion, a municipal building where the mayor and other officials are holding news conferences. Clad in a long brown dress, she walks with a regal bearing, all 5 feet 10 inches of her, head topped with a sporty straw hat. A guy in a gray suit sees her. His face lights up. "Yvette!" he says. He gives her a kiss on both cheeks. They chat in Greek, then she moves on. She gets only a few away when more people notice her. "Hello, Yvette!" Kiss, kiss. "Yvette!" Kiss, kiss. Love and basketball Jarvis' unlikely life is as amazing and inspiring as any Olympic athlete's story. Born in Brooklyn's rough waterfront neighborhood of Red Hook, she was raised by her grandmother after her mom died when Yvette was 9. In high school, she played for a championship basketball team and won an academic scholarship to Boston University, where she majored in psychology. After graduating in 1979, she pondered law school while working as a substitute teacher and moonlighting as a basketball referee. She met a Greek named Stelios Kordopatis, who played for Hellenic College in Boston. They fell in love. When he returned to Greece in 1982, she visited him twice, and decided to move to Athens. "I was young, I was in love, I thought, `Go for it,'" she says, laughing. "I had an American Express card, what could happen to me? My family thought I was crazy." "My first question was: Why?" recalls her sister, Lorraine Jarvis, 44, a law firm administrator in New York. "But she has always gone for whatever it was she wanted. That's her character. And she usually comes out on top." Kordopatis was playing pro basketball in Athens, so Jarvis started practicing with his team and was promptly recruited by a local women's team. Only citizens could play pro ball then in Greece, so she and Kordopatis married, which automatically gave her dual citizenship. "It was a marriage of convenience," she says. "We didn't tell our families. We figured, `Three months down the road, we could ditch this.'" But they didn't. "We stayed married for eight years," she says. "We loved each other." Playing b-ball in 1983 and 1984, she brought a little American in-your-face action to the Greek women's game. She got noticed and soon was working as a model, strutting runways in Greece, Germany and Italy in a career that lasted from 1982 to 1992. "I was a New Yorker, I was American, I was black, and I had a different style of modeling," she says. Modeling led to the TV commercial that made Jarvis famous all over Greece. It showed the tall, exotic American shopping for nail polish, rejecting one variety after another until she's offered a brand called Madison. At that she rejoices, exclaiming, "Opos Ameriki!" -- just like America! The ad ran for years. For a couple of years in the early '90s, Jarvis co-hosted a women's TV talk show called Myths and Realities. In 1994, she landed a role on Pink Cloud, a TV sitcom about four Greek women, old high school friends who are now middle-aged and plagued with philandering husbands, which lasted two years. finally, politics Since then, she's made her living as a singer in Athens nightclubs, belting out a repertoire ranging from jazz standards to covers of Aretha Franklin and Donna Summer hits. In 1995, Jarvis married John Muller, now 51, a white American who founded Greece's first dog training school and now runs a kennel outside Athens. They have a son, John Jacob Shaquille Muller, 8. Needless to say, there's a story behind that mellifluous moniker: "He turned out to be whiter than my husband," Jarvis says, "and I decided that we have to add something black to this kid. And Shaq is one of my favorite players." In 2002, PASOK, the Panhellenic Socialist Movement, asked Jarvis to run on its slate for the 41-member Athens City Council. It wasn't a total surprise: Not only was Jarvis a celebrity, she had a track record as an activist on issues involving women and immigrants. She won the unpaid position, taking office in 2003. So far, she says, her greatest political accomplishment is setting up Athens' first domestic violence hotline. She is the first black American elected to political office in Greece, she says proudly. "Greece was like a virgin territory," she says. "When I came here, I hung out, I started playing basketball and overnight I was somebody. And it just took off." Print this article, paste it in your READING JOURNAL at HOME and answer the questions: What is the main idea? What does her husband do? How did they meet? What would you ask her if you could meet her? What is she doing with trees? How many languages does she speak? Article for September Who said, "I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired"? Answer is below... look for the "article for September" NEWSLETTER – From DATA to HOME September 2004 Topics: Books on CDs, Web sites, Powerpoint, and Penpals CDs -- One way to stimulate students into doing more reading is to create web sites. I will create web sites and I will collect books on CDs to send home. If your home does not have a computer, please contact me. I can arrange for a donated computer to be placed in your home as part of a short-term arrangement. COMPUTERS: The school has received six computers recently and these will be set up to allow “off network” exchange of files and editing of videos. The school is looking for a NON-functioning computer to take apart so we can examine the inner workings of a computer. Additional working computers are also needed, especially with CD-ROM drives. Donations are tax-deductible, since the school is organized as a non-profit educational institution. Web sites – Parents should ask questions when they hear, “my teacher is creating a web site for me!” No personal information will appear on any web site (just the opinions of the students). A PUZZLE: Three large men were walking under one regular-sized umbrella. Why didn’t they get wet? ANOTHER PUZZLE: How can you make 30 cents with only two coins if one of the coins is not a nickel? Power point – your child is invited to start learning more about Power point. The program is standard on most computers and it can be practiced at DATA school. Students who are interested in making powerpoint presentations may ask the Reading teacher to expand and improve their presentations. Recent Powerpoint that caught attention were about Jamaica and the Carolina Jaguars. Penpals -- Mr. Mac taught international visitors to the USA how to improve their English. He knows four people (Maysam from Iran, Michael from Germany, Daniela from Venezuela and Mitsui from Japan) who are waiting for letters from middle school students. Writing to a pen pal is a fun way to learn about another culture. This is an OPTIONAL activity and each letter will earn your team a point. (We’ll discuss in future newsletters the interesting workings of “academic teams”). The best part of writing to a penpal comes when the penpal visits the USA or you visit the penpal’s country… you get to meet and talk face to face. If you are interested, submit your letter to Mr. Mac (by email, please: talkinternational@yahoo.com) and he’ll forward it to the penpal. Here is an interesting problem… It occurs once in a minute, twice in a week and once in a year. What is it? An interesting situation: can you name all of the “stans”? Afghanistan, Pakistan… Can you name all of the countries that touch France? That touch Afghanistan? That touch Iraq? Web site of the week: www.snopes.com Is it okay to throw rice on the ground after a wedding? Or will the birds eat the rice and get bloated? Hmmm… this web site gives the answer. It wasn’t raining. The other coin is a nickel. The letter “e”. Dear Parents and Guardians, If you feel that your child is ready to go beyond basic reading skills, then consider these optional extensions to the reading curriculum. Critical Thinking: I will send home additional exercises and web pages for you to visit with your child. Please start with www.snopes.com and do a google search on “underground legends” or “urban legends.” Students should learn to question everything they hear on the news. “There are more people in the hospital during the full moon” is one example of a “truth” or conventional wisdom that is not supported by evidence. (Or is it? I hope you didn’t take my word as an absolute truth! Check it out with your student.) The www.snopes.com web site should take you three months to examine completely. At least one book per month – I give extra credit for each additional book report, or for each additional draft of a book report. If you child creates 20 book reports or revises 10 book reports really well, I will award more extra credit for the revisions. Writing is improved with re-writing and I will encourage students to be very focused. It’s wonderful to find students who are eager readers. Their next challenge is to develop the ability to analyze (patiently) one story or book. Some students look at book reports in quantity (“I did four book reports last month”). I ask you to encourage your student to work on improving a book report instead of rushing on to write the next report. To help with the revision, please purchase Strunk and White’s Elements of Style. Vocabulary building: I enclose the first of several sheets about using “big words”… I urge parents to use these words in every day talking around the house. Post the words in the kitchen and in the bathroom. “This is Mr. Mac’s first year teaching sixth graders, but he’s not a novice.” Point to the word list that includes “novice” and then say: “This is Mr. Mac’s first year teaching sixth graders, but he’s not a tyro.” If there is still a puzzled look on your child’s face, say: “This is Mr. Mac’s first year teaching sixth graders, but he’s not a beginner.” A foreign language. In addition to studying Spanish in school, your child could study other languages. The list of words can be pasted around the home. If your child already knows Spanish or wants to learn other languages, let me know and we’ll get another list for you to post around the home. Putting labels on objects is tedious but can make a difference over time. Make sure the labels are not ignored by moving the label to a new position every month or so. Interview an older adult. Use a tape recorder or a video camcorder. If the interview is on video, then we can edit it in the school on our computers. The idea is to find out “what’s the main idea” that the adult carries inside. Can the child learn to ask questions that bring out the wisdom in older people? Jay Leno: The Tonight Show host asks people, “Who was Napoleon?” and “What’s the capital of California?” and “Who said Give me liberty or give me death!”? and “Who was the third president of the United States?” and “What countries did we fight in World War One?” Your child could know the answers. A good book to start with is the Encyclopedia of Cultural Literacy. I’ve enclosed a sample page. Contact me with questions. All of these suggestions are VOLUNTARY and OPTIONAL. Your child is responsible only for one book report each month and for maintaining a reading journal in school and a journal at home. I hope your child will reach higher. Mr. Mac. About the Reading Journal in the Home Dear Guardians and Parents Please read and sign the “criteria” sheets (one for Reading and one for Language Arts) with your child and ask your child to return the signed copy to Mr. Mac. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You can glue the second copy to the Reading Journal for the Home. If your student doesn’t have a reading journal for the home, please start one by pasting the instruction sheet (it is 14 inches long) in a notebook. (I passed out the notebooks at school but some students might be confused and they keep the HOME journal at school. There is a CLASS journal, too.) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The rules for the journal are simple: a) the student needs to read something every day (pages in a book, an article in a magazine or newspaper) b) the student writes “the main idea” in the journal. c) Once a month the journal comes to school (please send the journal to the school during the first week of the next month). The teacher counts the number of entries in the journal and that’s the number of extra credit points. These points can be used to raise a grade. d) If a student writes in the home journal twice a week, that’s only 8 points in the month. If the student writes every day, the student gains 30 or 31 extra credit points. The purpose of this exercise is to get the student to read with a pencil or pen. Write the main idea after reading every two or three pages. The student should NOT be moving lips while reading – it slows down the speed of the reading. Look for the important words in the sentence. Look for the important words in the sentence. Don’t read every word. If you have questions, please call me at 954 646 8246 and I will return your call. It’s my cell phone so I try to keep the phone off during school hours and between 6:30 to 8 p.m. If I’m not on the phone, I can usually answer the phone between 4:30-6:30 and 8-11 pm at night. Yes, you can reach me up to 11 pm at night. If you get an answering machine, it’s because I’m on the phone. Mr. Mac 954 646 8246 Work together to find the main idea of this article. Circle important details that support the main idea. You can work with another student or alone. Article for September.... FANNIE LOU HAMER 1917-1977 "I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired." Born October 6, 1917, in Montgomery County, Mississippi, Fannie Lou Hamer was the granddaughter of a slave and the youngest of 20 children. Her parents were sharecroppers. Sharecropping, or "halfing," as it is sometimes called, is a system of farming whereby workers are allowed to live on a plantation in return for working the land. When the crop is harvested, they split the profits in half with the plantation owner. Sometimes the owner pays for the seed and fertilizer, but usually the sharecropper pays those expenses out of his half. It's a hard way way to make a living and sharecroppers generally are born poor, live poor, and die poor. At age six, Fannie Lou began helping her parents in the cotton fields. By the time she was twelve, she was forced to drop out of school and work full time to help support her family. Once grown, she married another sharecropper named Perry "Pap" Hamer. On August 31, 1962, Mrs. Hamer decided she had had enough of sharecropping. Leaving her house in Ruleville, MS she and 17 others took a bus to the courthouse in Indianola, the county seat, to register to vote. On their return home, police stopped their bus. They were told that their bus was the wrong color. Fannie Lou and the others were arrested and jailed. After being released from jail, the plantation owner paid the Hamers a visit and told Fannie Lou that if she insisted on voting, she would have to get off his land - even though she had been there for eighteen years. She left the plantation that same day. Ten days later, night riders fired 16 bullets into the home of the family with whom she had gone to stay. Mrs. Hamer began working on welfare and voter registration programs for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). On June 3, 1963, Fannie Lou Hamer and other civil rights workers arrived in Winona, MS by bus. They were ordered off the bus and taken to Montgomery County Jail. The story continues "...Then three white men came into my room. One was a state highway policeman (he had the marking on his sleeve)... They said they were going to make me wish I was dead. They made me lay down on my face and they ordered two Negro prisoners to beat me with a blackjack. That was unbearable. The first prisoner beat me until he was exhausted, then the second Negro began to beat me. I had polio when I was about six years old. I was limp. I was holding my hands behind me to protect my weak side. I began to work my feet. My dress pulled up and I tried to smooth it down. One of the policemen walked over and raised my dress as high as he could. They beat me until my body was hard, 'til I couldn't bend my fingers or get up when they told me to. That's how I got this blood clot in my eye - the sight's nearly gone now. My kidney was injured from the blows they gave me on the back." Mrs Hamer was left in the cell, bleeding and battered, listening to the screams of Ann Powder, a fellow civil rights worker, who was also undergoing a severe beating in another cell. She overheard white policemen talking about throwing their bodies into the Big Black River where they would never be found. In 1964, presidential elections were being held. In an effort to focus greater national attention on voting discrimination, civil rights groups created the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP). This new party sent a delegation, which included Fannie Lou Hamer, to Atlantic City, where the Democratic Party was holding its presidential convention. Its purpose was to challenge the all-white Mississippi delegation on the grounds that it didn't fairly represent all the people of Mississippi, since most black people hadn't been allowed to vote. Fannie Lou Hamer spoke to the Credentials Committee of the convention about the injustices that allowed an all-white delegation to be seated from the state of Mississippi. Although her live testimony was pre-empted by a presidential press conference, the national networks aired her testimony, in its entirety, later in the evening. Now all of America heard of the struggle in Mississippi's delta. A compromise was reached that gave voting and speaking rights to two delegates from the MFDP and seated the others as honored guests. The Democrats agreed that in the future no delegation would be seated from a state where anyone was illegally denied the vote. A year later, President Lyndon Baines Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act. Prior to her death in 1977, Fannie Lou Hamer was inducted into Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, as an honorary member. Source: http://www.beejae.com/hamer.htm This page is found at www.oocities.org/teachers2teachers/data.html Skills 1. How to pronounce words in other languages How to Pronounce Italian words http://italian.about.com/cs/ pronunciation/ht/pronouncewords.htm How to pronounce German words http://www.germanculture.com.ua/library/ howto/htpronounce.htm http://german.about.com/library/anfang/blanfang_abc2.htm How to pronounce Spanish words http://www.oocities.org/Athens/Thebes/ 6177/ws-pronun.html Spanish course http://www.june29.com/Spanish/lesson1.html How to pronounce French words http://french.about.com/library/pronunciation/bl-audiolab.htm http://french.about.com/library/ pronunciation/bl-pronunciation.htm How to pronounce Portuguese words http://www.oocities.org/Eureka/Executive/2731/ lesson1/pronunci.htm http://www.math.nyu.edu/~wendlc/ pronunciation/Portuguese.html Other Languages http://experts.about.com/q/656/3295371.htm 2. How to read more quickly Guide your eyes with your index finger. Take a speed reading course or look up "speed reading" or "Evelyn Woods Reading Course" on the Internet. 3. Make a web page. Free web making pages at oocities.com and angelfire.com. Examples: Student Pages The log on code is data. www.angelfire.com/fl5/datastudents Other pages 4. Learn to use the Office Suite: Word, Powerpoint, Excel. 5. Map reading Can you draw a map of Broward County and mark 3 shopping centers, I-95, I-595, major roads like Broward Blvd., Sunrise, Atlantic, Hollywood? Can you find 1500 N. Federal Highway in Pompano, Hollywood and Fort Lauderdale? 6. Be a greeter. Learn to give directions to international visitors. Take notes from the Greeter Binder in the classroom. 7. Persuade the teacher to allow you to work on a really interesting project at school during the Reading Class time. This requires you to bring in work materials, such as lyrics to songs if you want to write a comparison between a rap song and a song from "West Side Story." If you want to create a really interesting project or if you want to read or write about something that really interests you, make a proposal to the teacher. 8. Write to a pen pal. See Mr. Mac for details. 9. Photocopier reduction and enlargement. Assume that you have an original that measure 5 x 6. You want to (a) enlarge it to fit 8.5 by 11 and (b) shrink it to fit four to a page (each image will be no larger than 4 x 5). What percent reduction or enlargement do you use? Extra Credit Do the same with originals that are 2 x 3 and 11 x 17. 10. Search the Internet. Find materials on the internet to fit one of the topics for character education. (the list of words appears on the 8th grade bulletin board in the hall.) 11. Use a video camra to make a presentation. Show how to create shares with strings. Show how to fold an origami shape. Show how to do a step dance. Teach the viewer a song or a poem. Perform a poem. Show students how to use a tripod and how to make a video show, including how to edit using an editing software. Make a video to explain how to use a computer program. Example: explain to an adult (be very patient) how to use advanced functions of Word, Powerpoint and Excel, or other software.... Imagine that you are a teacher and you are explaining on TV how to do something. You need to write a script and follow the script step by step. 12. Ten-finger typing. It is helpful to know how to type efficiently. Dragon (the voice recognition software) is still not quickly set up for most situations. You can learn more by searching Google for "dragon software"...or "speech recognition." We’re on the wait to reading 1000 books before December 1! Peter T Lion Witch and Wardrobe, Huck Finn, 10000 Leagues, Paul Revere, Jim Brown. John KT Lion Witch and Wardrobe, Huck Finn, 10000 Leagues, Paul Revere, Jane Eyre’s tempest, Jim Brown. FR Lion Witch and Wardrobe, Huck Finn, 10000 Leagues, Paul Revere, Jim Brown. KT Lion Witch and Wardrobe, Huck Finn, 10000 Leagues, Paul Revere, Jim Brown. SET Lion Witch and Wardrobe, Huck Finn, 10000 Leagues, Paul Revere, Jim Brown. JT Lion Witch and Wardrobe, Huck Finn, 10000 Leagues, Paul Revere, Jim Brown. SW Lion Witch and Wardrobe, Huck Finn, 10000 Leagues, Paul Revere, Jim Brown. KL Lion Witch and Wardrobe, Huck Finn, 10000 Leagues, Paul Revere, Jim Brown. AW Lion Witch and Wardrobe, Huck Finn, 10000 Leagues, Paul Revere, Jim Brown. DE Lion Witch and Wardrobe, Huck Finn, 10000 Leagues, Paul Revere, Jim Brown. Mr. Mac Lion Witch and Wardrobe, Aviation History, First In Flight. See the full list at 1000 Some students have started creating web pages. VISIT HERE, too... dataintro2 See piratesfan1000. |
| Marketable Skills The student is able to: 1. Use a photocopier to enlarge and reduce and make three holes in the margin. 2. Search the internet efficiently. 3. Speak with confidence. 4. The conversation in the the elevator. 5. Tutoring other students. 6. Correcting the pronunciation of a student who is learning English. 7. Giving directions to a visitor. 8. Speaking clearly on the telephone (and giving phone numbers and addresses using alpha bravo, charlie, delta, echo...) 9. Using standard U.S. grammar and vocabulary. Gifted Program We have materials to help gifted children in their progress. Special help for students who are reading below grade level: I didn't read well when I was a child. The key to help me was finding books that I wanted to read. for me it was discovering illustrated classic stories. For your child it might be magazines. Let's work to find the magic. All students and teachers are keeping reading journals and then SHARING with each other for two minutes: one minute about the MAIN IDEA of the article and one minute about HOW I WILL USE THIS INFORMATION. We invite parents and guardians to participate. Send a message to Mr. Mac I'll put your information on this web site (if it is useful for the school). mistermath@comcast.net |
Web Sites by Students Click on the links below to see the web pages created by students. These are just the beginning...dataintro2 Rules for participation: a) the parent says "It's okay for my child's material to be on the internet." b) no personal identification is on the web page (only opinions, such as "Spiderman 2 is a cool movie because..." Students who already have a web page can send the link to talkinternational@yahoo.com and I'll make a link ot your web page. D in 6th grade ARTWORK Coming soon -- artwork that we found in DATA... HALL OF RECOGNITION Any student who can solve one of the problems on this web site will get his or her name here. Help from adults is welcome! http://www2.sjsu.edu/ depts/itl/graphics/apps/ categor.html If you find more Critial Thinking sites, send the links to talkinternational@yahoo.com |
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| A surprise person will recite this poem if 1000 books are read before Dec. 1 The Owl and the Pussycat Written By: Edward Lear (1812-1888) Copyright Unknown The owl and the pussycat went to sea In a beautiful peagreen boat They took some honey and plenty of money Wrapped up in a five-pound note. The owl looked up to the stars above And sang to a small guitar, "O, lovely pussy, o pussy my love, What a beautiful pussy you are, you are What a beautiful pussy you are!" Pussy said to the owl, "You elegant fowl, How charmingly sweet you sing. O, let us be married, too long we have tarried, But what shall we do for a ring?" They sailed away for a year and a day To the land where the Bongtree grows. And there in a wood a Piggywig stood With a ring at the end of his nose, His nose, his nose, With a ring at the end of his nose. "Dear Pig, are you willing to sell for one shilling Your ring?" Said the Piggy, "I will." So they took it away and were married next day By the turkey who lives on the hill. They dined on mince and slices of quince Which they ate with a runcible spoon; And hand in hand on the edge of the sand They danced by the light of the moon, The moon, the moon, They danced by the light of the moon. |