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Happy Labor Day Weekend!

September 1, 2007

Well my first week of school went okay. I have a pretty nice class and we got started on science and social studies right away. We did a science experiment yesterday (Friday) and they did a great job. We are studying about the wetlands in Louisiana. Anyway in Social Studies I have the kids doing a simulation of a 16 day road trip across the USA. They have to budget and pretend they are working for a travel magazine and do assignment related to special points of interest they stop at along the way. They are stuck in planning how far they can go in a day though....they aren't aloud to drive more than 480 miles a day and they have to use a road atlas and scale to check they aren't driving to far. I am hoping to finish planning the road trips on Tuesday so we can begin the simulation.

As for other things.......the air conditioning has been out in half of my wings classrooms. The poor kids are sitting in hot classrooms. I am lucky and my air conditioning didn't go out but the heat from the non air conditioned rooms is seeping into my room and making it hot.

I hope everyone is off having a good time this weekend!!!!

Shana

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      Posted 10 months ago by Gina2cali

      The class experiment you are doing is something I would like to do for real. Once I traveled cross country for 5 days. I remember when I was in school if the ac did not work we were sent home. It's ok that you did not get back to my email. It did not need a response. Take Care. Regina

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      Posted 10 months ago by jbugg

      Eek no air that definitly sucks. Yea we definitly need to get together it has been too long :P Im glad the new year is going so well.

      enjoy the long weekend, Jayda

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      Posted 10 months ago by Tnbcdancer17

      LOL Shana, judging by the way you spelled my name, you must be listening to a lot of hip-hop these days!

      Classes are going well. They are pretty much what I expected. I love my apartment, and the area is nice as well. I was really iffy about grad school, but now that I'm there, I know this was the right choice. Ooo, and I found a dance group to get involved with! So life is good.

      The travel assignment seems really interesting. I think it is so cool when assignments have some basis in reality. It is good to be able to use maps and figure out how to drive places, afterall the GPS can't get you everywhere. (Heck if I listened to mine all the time, I would have driven into at least two buildings by now.)

      : )

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      Posted 10 months ago by loyalkrispygirl

      oh cool!!! i wasn't sure if you had... i also don't know what the time difference is there.( if there is one) so i hope it wasn't too late...i am glad school went well... and hope you have a blast in seattle...i will be running across the Astoria-Megler bridge..i will try to get a picture of it up so you can see it...let me see what i can comeup with otherwise i may just have to send you a postcard..classes are going great...i am getting ready to apply to get my license....on the 21st of september i will be sending the state $425.00~~~NO SH**!!! talk about EXPENSIVE....i can only say i better get a job on the crusie lines for hawaii after that cost...LOL anyway..have a great week...ttyl..xoxo hugs kristi