Week 13 Review

Nov. 29

This man is pretty entertaining and he made me want to actually watch this 20 minute video. I am so glad that someone had the nerve to challenge the overly diagnosis of ADD. 

Week 13 Tech Tip

My Soundcloud track:




Since I cannot seem to get away from this song (All hail Queen Adele) I thought this cover was a breath of fresh air. I love covers as it reminds me of our story telling posts. We take an original and make it our own.

Week 13 Growth Mindset

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Week 12 Review

Twilight. It is so stupid but I can't help loving it. It is like...exactly my brand of heroin...(get it?!). Anyways I saw this and thought it was pretty funny.

Nov. 10

Weel 12 Tech Tip: Weather Widget

I added a cool weather widget to my side bar! What is your favorite kind of weather? Personally, I love the Fall weather. It is not too warm and not too cool. You can wear jeans and a hoodie or shorts and a tshirt.

Week 12 Growth Mindset

For the most part, I have just been posting memes that have already been made. I wanted to try my hand in generating memes. What do you think?

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I know, I know. Probably not the best picture for growth mindset but I've always loved this picture and this quote and thought it would go great together. Perfect for group partners. Hehe.

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Week 12 Extra Reading Diary [Nursery Rhymes]

Nursery Rhyme Jingles:

• Who doesn't know the first two lines of rub a dub dub? However, I honestly think this is the first time I have actually read the whole thing.
• Another jingle I was familiar with is Hey Diddle Diddle. 

Nursery Rhyme Love and Matrimony:

• Jack and Jill! 
• The cutest nursery rhyme was of the little boy and girl in the alley that is for sure. 
• The wife in the wheel barrow was a little morbid.

Nursery Rhyme Natural History:

• I did my first storytelling post on the owl in the haunted barn. 
• Like Three Men in the Tub I don't think I actually read Baa, Baa, Black Sheep in its entirety.

Nursery Rhyme Accumulative:

The House That Jack Built

• The House That Jack Built really reminded me of the style in the Twelve Days of Christmas. In which one new thing is added while the other lyrics are repeated after. Every story starts with that which I believe is called Anaphora. I liked the use of repetition. 
• Another story that is reminiscent to an anaphora is the Key of the Kingdom. I liked the generalization of something to something really specific.

Nursery Rhyme Relics:

• Little Miss Muffet was one of my favorite nursery rhymes as a child. 
• What Little Boys Are Made of was also really cute. I like the line, "sugar and spice and everything nice".

Week 12 Reading Diary B [Alice in Wonderland]

The tea party consisted of riddles, the hatter, a march hare, and a sleepy dormouse. After much bickering, Alice sees one of the trees had a door leading up to it. Tired of the tea party she decides that she would probably manage better somewhere else. She nibbled on a piece of mushroom to grow taller and kept some for later. She then found herself in a beautiful garden. 

I'm the garden Alice finds three gardeners painting white roses red. They say it is to please the queen or it will be off with their heads. Then the queen and the royal court come out and sees what they are doing. She says off with her head to Alice for over speaking and the three gardeners. It doesn't happen. We find out that the duchess is in jail for offending the queen. The queen invites Alice to a game of croquet but everyone cheats in favor of the queen. She sees the Cheshire cat and he does not want to look at the king so the king asks the queen to off his head but the executioner can't behead a head without a body. Alice says he belongs to the duchess to give him time to disappear. 

The next scene begins in the courthouse. The hatter and the tea crew were the first witness but didn't really say an thing of importance. The second witness was the duchess's cook and surprisingly the last witness was Alice. Nonsense happens and we find that everything was just a dream.

The dormouse, hatter, Alice, and the march hare at the tea party

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Week 11 Review

November 11

Fight Club is one of my favorite movies and has one of my favorite actors, Edward Norton. When I saw this play off the movie title, I found it hilarious. Also, who doesn't right click on word so we can find a synonym for however.

Week 11 Tech Tip: Embedded YouTube

I have one more character to do for my story book and I am not going to lie, I have a severe case of writer's block. I went to YouTube to grab some inspiration and came across this really cool fight scene with Medusa.

Week 11 Growth Mindset

The famous scene where Yoda tells Luke Skywalker, "No. Try not! Do. Or do not. There is no try."

Week 11 Reading Diary A [Alice in Wonderland]

Down the rabbit hole: 
Alice is sitting on the bank with her sister as she reads a book. A white rabbit suddenly passes her interrupting her daydream. The rabbit was saying that he was going to be late which should have alerted her but it seemed so natural she didn't think anything of it. The rabbit had pink eyes, a pocket watch, and dressed. He was so curious she decided to follow it down a rabbit hole. The rabbit hole was very long but Alice finds it is filled with shelves. As she goes down, she muses to herself. When she finally gets down she stumbles upon a dark hallway with a table with a key on it which fit a door. She finds a drink that says drink me so she inspects it in case it it poison. It isn't so she drinks it. It makes her small enough to fit through the little door but she forgot the key which is on the table. She finds a cake that says eat me which made her tall. So tall that she hit the roof. Now she couldn't go anywhere. The story cuts off too chapter 4 where she first sees the caterpillar. 

Caterpillar:

Alice and the caterpillar did not get along at first. He kept asking her who she was to which she replied she didn't know anymore now that she has been so many different sizes. I don't know why she didn't just say Alice. The caterpillar advises her how to become taller. She did something wrong and her neck got really long. A pigeon accused her of being a serpent. She finally got it right though.

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Pig and Pepper:
Alice stumbles upon a house where the duchess gets an invitation to play croquet with the queen. Alice puts too much pepper in the soup and the duchess calls her a pig. This is where we first meet the Cheshire cat. The duchess tends to her baby which turns out to be a pig but then ignores it. Alice decides to tend to it but it trots off in the woods. 

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Week 10 Back up and Review

Halloween is officially over and I am really sad about it. I feel like I didn't really get to enjoy it as much. However, I did dress up as a minion at work. Regardless, I feel like the school year just started and it is already almost over! Here are my favorite things from this week:

October 30

Because really, what exactly IS normal anymore? 

Tech Tip: Blogger Template

I have changed the template of my blog. After working on my story book, I realized I wanted something more bright and happy for my blog. Hope you guys like it. Directions Here

Week 10 Growth Mindset

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           Though some can argue it's validity, I have always been obsessed with this one quote regardless. I also think it goes great with having a growth mindset. Here are some other Albert Einstein quotes I enjoy tremendously.

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