Probably something I should put on a different blog. But for now, this video totally explains why someone might be scared of... sharks... the ocean... surfing, etc. When does fear turn to respect? Or when does respect -and/or even a sense of awe- turn to fear?
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We are eager to see what scores from the big game this weekend end up earning us a prize! Top prize for the end of the game will be a book choice from Scholastic ($7 maximum) AND a Homework Pass. Second-best prize (score at halftime) is a choice of either of the HW pass OR the book from Scholastic. Prizes for score at end of first and third quarters could be a small bag of Skittles or some other small prize. Good luck to everyone and hope you have fun watching the game! (Please do not go to bed too late ;)
Sunday Update: the share from Friday had everyone who was in class try and predict the winner and score. Here are the guesses from our 4S student prognosticators! Thanks to everyone for giving this a try (a few of us were absent for this, so some numbers are missing... but here are the predictions we do have. Someone will probably come close with all these ideas! From Lyon, France?? This ambient, downtempo (mostly) stuff is good for early morning or late night. At work, and maybe for play. The music is easy to find on YouTube, Bandcamp, Soundcloud, etc.) Several artists came up on Pandora stations I listen to (MUTEMATH Radio, especially): • Aes Dana (liked track 02 from Aftermath) • H.U.V.A. Network (Ephemeris album on YouTube to listen to in full) • Solar Fields (the track "Feelings" lit me up) and the Bandcamp link to listen and/or download the above artists plus many more! - click button
“Eye of the Tiger” - Survivor
Psych-up songs were a topic of convo. during recent snack/music-listening time. “Eye of the Tiger” was a surprise to hear mentioned! I think I like this newer version (performed by a band called Devil You Know, which features Howard Jones*) better than the original. *More on Jones in the next AwesomSong post.
True, the above video kinda settles down after the intro., but the metal of it all. Just amazing.
The original Survivor version of the song (and pretty awesome 80's stuff) is below:
And if you're not tired of the song yet, the video below is the best movie montage I could find to match the Rocky III scenes with he song. A lot of punching Clubber Lang in the end, but that was the movie. Oh well.
oh, Hey! If you watch/listen to all three, maybe vote for your favorite in the Comments!
Want to make this song the theme for pre-game! Added to category #AwesomeSongs. The second video is cool; let's get some ideas about interview questions for rockers! The kid (Piper?) gets points for trying to ask interesting questions, and Pete, from Chevelle is good sport about it :)
I used to always play Tetris while listening to rocking songs by the epic band Journey 'n' stuff like that. Tetris was my favorite Geometry Practice! If you want to get better at Tetris, you should start with "Only The Young" as good Journey background music. Click on the video image below and get started with some Free online Tetris! Now, since you might be getting better at Tetris, when "Only the Young" is done playing, pause your game, come back to this page, scroll down a bit, and click on the link to the mysterious, haunting video of the song "Send Me An Angel" (1983) by Real Life. I think it was before Tetris, but it has merit. Another good song for Tetris, once you realize you need to rethink your geometric arrangement decisions would be "Jump" (originally by Van Halen, but better done, in my opinion, by Powerman 5000). Go ahead and play that by following the third link. Finally -- at least for now -- some 4S friends from last year's (2016-2017) 3H gang (with special shout-out to Sarah H., Queen of the Copy Machine), really wanted to have some "Final Countdown" inspiration to go along with the Tetris higher levels. So, go ahead and pause that game again. Scroll down a little further, and click on the Vevo-hosted vid for Europe's most-loved song.
If you wanna see a movie montage from Vision Quest, this is awesome to watch. Or just listen over and over again while playing Tetris.
Friday Folder Memo, Redux: This post is for anyone who received and wanted to follow up using the link I sent as an update for the class this past week, ending 10/6/17. 4S kids took home their Friday Folders with a brief memo/update. You can view (and download, perhaps?) that document here. Please note: I have edited the memo a bit; it's slightly different from the paper copy I sent home -- with haste, unfortunately -- on which there were a couple spelling errors ;( -- sorry! In future blog posts, I hope to continue to share further information and specific details on some of the quick notes I share with you via the Friday Folder Memo. While I cannot promise that the frequency of such correspondence will be weekly, I am hopeful that I can at least share these types of posts with you on a monthly basis. Links to info I mentioned I'd make available to you: Open House information we gave in our talks this past Tuesday was focused on classroom routines, grade-wide learning objectives, and primary curriculum topics. I hope you can access the District Curriculum Overview for grade 4 by clicking on the link below. If it works the way it should, you'll be able to view the document that we were encouraged to share with all families, and which we used to guide our talk in the classroom and in the library. Please let me know if you need a hard copy or if the link doesn't allow you to view the document for any reason. This is my first time working with file uploads in this interface, so I am not sure yet if it will all work the way I intend. The Public Schools of Brookline GRADE FOUR CURRICULUM OVERVIEW School Pictures on Friday morning, 10/13. This link should bring you to the online order location: <www.coffeepond.com/prepay_enter_order.aspx?school=174&md=add> Columbus Day? Indigenous Peoples Day? There is a campaign to rename or at least recognize simultaneously the 2nd Monday in October, which we observe in Brookline with a day off from school, and which is a state holiday. In reading about the effort here in Brookline to reconsider the day's meaning, I am compelled to share some information with you that reflects what made me kind of reconsider discussing it at length with the students before our day off. While Columbus Day (such as it is) has rarely been something we have found enough time and context to teach about at this early stage of the school year, later in the year we do have a social studies focus on the Age of (European) Explorers which pretty much begins with Columbus' 1492 arrival in the western hemisphere. This gives us a great opportunity to examine the different historical perspectives around this time period and the peoples that were affected. For those of you interested in finding out more about the upcoming resolution that is going to be considered in Brookline, you might find the following links to be starting points: Resolution filed in August to be considered in November 2017 in Brookline, MA http://www.indigenouspeoplesdayma.org/brookline/ Boston Globe article about other MA / US communities celebrating Indigenous Peoples Day Finally, some pictures! If you have made it this far, maybe you'd like to see some photos from the classroom that I had a chance to take over the past couple weeks. Many thanks, EL, for copying the assignment so neatly and completely. This was our first day back after a long week+ away from school, so we set up some simple tasks to help us successfully get back into the swing of our homework routine. Students were asked to return to -- or find for themselves -- a new book to enjoy for a solid block of reading time.
Some books we are reading are... For some math work, students were asked to choose either side from our Practice/Extension double-sided assignment. Most kids chose to complete the... and the side more kids enjoyed was the... because... I didn't realize that calculators were suggested to figure out many of the computations for the Extension! Did you know that there are______________ seconds in a year? Finally, we worked on identifying sentence problems. Yesterday we worked with sentence fragments. One sentence that was created based on a fragment was... Not bad for a Monday homework review! (Yes, this is a sentence fragment.) Liked this post. Reminder to also get "Blogs I Follow / post To" rolling. Like that one thru scholasticic
Yesterday, 4S had some time to sign up for squares to see who might get the lucky scores for end-of-the-quarter, halftime, and final scores for tomorrow's SuperBowl. The game is between our hometown team (The New England Patriots) and the Atlanta Falcons. This writer cares not to divulge an opinion/hope for the outcome of the big game ;) Not sure I can explain clearly here, but if your initials are in the box that represents the score of the respective teams at the end of the quarters, then you win for that quarter. Extra prizes if you have the halftime and final score. If either team has a double-digit score, you look just at the ones' place. I don't get comments on this blog, but I'll try and post comments that reflect the winers after the game. Oh, and we also made quick predictions for the final score!No one needed to pick which team scored which amount, although at least one Patriot fan's confidence was clear in the final score prediction. Below, the student numbers and teacher initials are indicated with the score that she or he predicted. Some ideas for ways we can award prizes were for picking exactly the...
winning score Losing Score Total Difference Between Scores Any other suggestions to use these numbers to award a prize? It was fun to find a couple extra math times on Friday to work with some of the ways sports events can create opportunities to look at numbers around us! Maybe next week we can look into Roman numerals ;) |
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