OOOO mannn!! Who is excited about the top secret activity we learned about in Social Studies on Wednesday?!? I think it's soo exciting! I came home and immediately looked up the *treasure* (muggles may read this so certain words have been changed ;) that is located near my house. There are soo many, and I sooo want to do this sometimes really soon. Apparently this *treasure hunting* is a huuuuuge thing to some people. When I think of going *hunting* I think of maybe trying to find 10 pieces per hunt, but I was reading comments on some of the treasure that other hunters had left and they said they were on a specific type of hunting trip and went to more than 100 different locations PER DAY!!! They said in 6 days they had gotten over 700 treasures!!! That is sooooo I don't even know what to say! I think it'd be really cool to go on a hike that has a lot of them along the trail and that way you're hiking, but also treasure hunting.
In the Classroom
I think this is a really neat idea to use in the classroom. The kids would love it. It seems so exciting to go on a treasure hunt, I mean I'm in college and I was just like Let's Go! I think it'd be especially neat to do one of the ones that is a clue one, that each box leads you to the next one. It kind of reminds me of the amazing race. OO! I wonder if there is treasure that tells you to complete specific activities. It's like a world-wide amazing race! haha!
The New Look
so.... what do you guys think? do you like the new layout? I logged in and saw the background, and I was like it's time for a change! :) So I was looking at the other backgrounds and this one was under celebrations, and I was like YES! Let's celebrate!! I have soo much to do in the next week, that a little celebration and cheer on my blog is just the thing ;)
Cache you around! ;) (haha! *catch* you around... it's ok if you didn't laugh, I love corny jokes :D)
Imani
Friday, October 29, 2010
Friday, October 22, 2010
I need to find...
Does ANYONE know where I can find circle pretzels? I need ones that fit hershey kisses inside them! My cousin makes these little treats and they are sooo good and I soo wanna make them, but there are like no circle pretzels in the area!! I've looked and looked... has anybody seen them anywhere?
And I promise ;) as soon as I find them and (finally!) get to make them, I'll bring them to class to share :D
And I promise ;) as soon as I find them and (finally!) get to make them, I'll bring them to class to share :D
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Confesssions of a Shopaholic Moment... about Maps
So I had a Confessions of a Shopaholic moment... no I am not a shopaholic, and no, that wasn't me being in denial :) The story goes like this... Once upon a time (I'm channeling Dr. Gann's class here) I wanted to find a different kind of map, so I typed into Google, Map of the World, but I didn't come up with anything worth noting, so I typed in "Interesting map of the world" :) Channel Confessions of a Shopaholic when she typed in "angle on (some finance topic)" and her boss catches her. haha! (sorry if that story did not make you laugh or smile at all... I'm infamous for my stories... apparently I tell them really badly. It's like crickets chirping at the end... someone once told me to fix my stories I should say "then I found five dollars" because that makes the story instantly more interesting... )
Anyways!! The map that I found that I thought was cool kind of ties in with the internet and how it's at the tip of our fingertips and we use it pretty much allllll the time. http://www.yugatech.com/blog/the-internet/world-internet-map/ This map shows the internet connections around the world, kind of like density of internet. As you can guess, some countries don't even have a dot. I'd be interested to see how many connections constitute one dot.
Another cool map I found also has to do with the internet, but more with social networking sites... http://lh3.ggpht.com/raj.m.rao/R8OELsb1BmI/AAAAAAAACDk/FiDiQkaTBeY/s800/untitled%5B4%5D This map didn't come with a key to tell you how they determined what color each country would be, but I think it's interesting to see the different sites that are dominant in each country... some of them I've never even heard of!
Connect ;) with you later!
Imani
Anyways!! The map that I found that I thought was cool kind of ties in with the internet and how it's at the tip of our fingertips and we use it pretty much allllll the time. http://www.yugatech.com/blog/the-internet/world-internet-map/ This map shows the internet connections around the world, kind of like density of internet. As you can guess, some countries don't even have a dot. I'd be interested to see how many connections constitute one dot.
Another cool map I found also has to do with the internet, but more with social networking sites... http://lh3.ggpht.com/raj.m.rao/R8OELsb1BmI/AAAAAAAACDk/FiDiQkaTBeY/s800/untitled%5B4%5D This map didn't come with a key to tell you how they determined what color each country would be, but I think it's interesting to see the different sites that are dominant in each country... some of them I've never even heard of!
Connect ;) with you later!
Imani
Thursday, October 14, 2010
( : Geography : )
Howdy!
I have to say, I kind of love maps :) We have a big map of the world and map of the United States hung up in the hallway at our house, and I love to go look at it, especially when we take trips, it's neat to see the different states and cities you'll go through. And can I just say, I never knew Boston was sooo north of us. Before I went there this summer, I always thought that Boston was somewhere south of New York.... nope nope nope. It's less than 2 hours away from Maine! But anyways, I think it's so interesting to see where things are located, what seas are near what countries, where other places are in relation to us... That's why I thought all the maps that Dr. Meier showed us was cool.
I remember when I was in school, I'd always look in the geography text books in the index to see if Bangladesh had made it, as in mentioned anywhere. It's such a small country, but it has so many people!! I remarked to Heidi when Dr. Meier showed us the World Population map that the big pink blob next to India was probably Bangladesh even though Bangladesh is tiny, about the size of the state of Illinois. It's very densely populated. I found two other cool population maps at red one and green one. I think the red one looks dangerous! haha! I wouldn't want to fall on that! :)
Buh bye!
Imani
I have to say, I kind of love maps :) We have a big map of the world and map of the United States hung up in the hallway at our house, and I love to go look at it, especially when we take trips, it's neat to see the different states and cities you'll go through. And can I just say, I never knew Boston was sooo north of us. Before I went there this summer, I always thought that Boston was somewhere south of New York.... nope nope nope. It's less than 2 hours away from Maine! But anyways, I think it's so interesting to see where things are located, what seas are near what countries, where other places are in relation to us... That's why I thought all the maps that Dr. Meier showed us was cool.
I remember when I was in school, I'd always look in the geography text books in the index to see if Bangladesh had made it, as in mentioned anywhere. It's such a small country, but it has so many people!! I remarked to Heidi when Dr. Meier showed us the World Population map that the big pink blob next to India was probably Bangladesh even though Bangladesh is tiny, about the size of the state of Illinois. It's very densely populated. I found two other cool population maps at red one and green one. I think the red one looks dangerous! haha! I wouldn't want to fall on that! :)
Buh bye!
Imani
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Mulan and Pocahontas
So yesterday, I was looking something up and somehow I ran across the movie Mulan. I got really nostalgic and looked up a specific scene on youtube; to my great excitement I found that it has the whole movie!!! You have no idea how excited I was, I didn't watch the whole thing, but then I saw Pocahontas, and I forgot how much I looved that movie!! So I started watching my favorite parts from that movie too :) And as I was watching the Colors of the Wind song came on and it just seemed so relevant, to class, and to our culturally responsive teaching. I loved that line where she said/sang "how high does the sycamore grow? You'll never know if you cut it down..." That goes with respecting the earth and not being wasteful, but she even says something along the lines it doesn't matter whether we're colored or white... I just really liked hearing it all over again, it was one of my favorites when I was little. And as I was watching I got reacquainted with Flit and Meeko.... O man! I love those two! They're so funny together! For example when Flit saw Meeko's tail as a target and charged at him and then got stuck in the boat and they flipped it over... oooohhh, I love this movie! It just makes me all giggly. haha! Maybe nostalgic is more the word, it brings back all the good memories... I think movies sometimes these days are so polluted with sexual innuendo that watching a cartoon movie from the past just makes me happy, without having to look away from the TV or be amazed at what they show on TV... anyways, that's a long way from Pocahontas... just like Pocahontas is a loong way from what actually happened in history, but it's still a good movie. :D I'm thinking about watching Sleeping Beauty later... did you know I never watched that movie till I was in high school? That was the first time I watched Sleeping Beauty..laugh all you want, but me and my friend went through a Disney phase where we traded Disney movies for like two weeks and caught up on the classics ;)
Something smells tasy downstairs, I'm going to go investigate!! and then it's off to finish the concept map ;)
αντίο (bye in Greek)
Imani
Something smells tasy downstairs, I'm going to go investigate!! and then it's off to finish the concept map ;)
αντίο (bye in Greek)
Imani
Sunday, October 10, 2010
Eggplant Parmesan which induced a 5K.... and of course football
10.10.10 <-- How exciting is that?!?
So I've been meaning to make eggplant parmesan for a while, and the other day my grandpa found some really good eggplant at the grocery store so he went ahead and bought it. So on Friday, I was completely exhausted and I didn't wanna do anything involving the kitchen, but the eggplants were going to get old, so I buckled down and started making it, knowing the end result would pay off... AND BOY DID IT!! ooo man! It was soo incredibly good! The eggplant was tender and I love mozzarella, so I made sure to put plenty of that, but the fried breading and tomato sauce made an excellent accompaniment for the pasta... needless to say, it was won-der-ful! It was so wonderful that I ate way too much. On top of that, I had one of those ice cream drumsticks! :D I forgot how much I love sugar cones with ice cream... I was supposed to go "training" for my 5k that I was going to do the next day, but that was not going to happen ;) So anyways, I ended up going to bed late Friday and when I woke up at 7am on Saturday I had no wish to go run a 5k. But alas, I had promised my friend we'd go, and it was for Autism Speaks, so I was gonna drag myself out and do it. So me and my friend went and while we were standing around waiting, we saw everyone and they all just looked so athletic! I was like oo man, we're going to be last, we are soo gonna be the last ones to finish. Then as we were "running" (more like jogging, walking for a while, and then jogging again) I was like hey, we're not doing so bad, this might work out ;) It was her first 5k, so she was just kinda going with the flow, but we had fun. Definitely laughed at ourselves a couple of times. Once I bent down to tie my shoe and one of the race people were like are you down? Do I need to call a nurse? It was kind of funny, I bet we looked tired ;) Anyways, I had my best time for a 5k, ~42mins, so before all you expert runners start laughing about how slow that is, I'm proud of myself ;) hahaha! I told someone my time that night, and she was like ohhh, that's pretty good, and then she was like, actually, that's really slow. But anyways, it was fun, and it was for a good cause.
Football :D
:) the Colts wonn... o mannn, that game was such a nail biter! I was like are you kidding me?!?! And I can't believe Dallas lost!! They just played really horribly. Did anyone see the overtime between green bay and washington? That was a pretty strong kick :D I'm not a fan of washington, but ever since the packers let go of Favre, I just don't like them that much. I mean Favre definitely needs to make up his mind, but I like his spunk. Although if he flip flops at the end of this season, it's over. I'll be a huge packers fan.... just kidding. I don't think I could ever be a Packers fan, even if I lived in Green Bay, this is going to sound so odd, but whenever I think of the Packers I think of like an old backpack, which is so weird considering they have a young team, especially at quarterback, but whatever...
Sunday School Lesson
I have to say I'm pretty proud of myself. In Sunday school the next chapter I was going to teach was on kindness, and I was like this is such a cut and dry subject. Everyone knows you should be kind to each other, how am I supposed to make this interesting? So I was just hanging out around the house and it hit me all of a sudden! I was so excited, totally stoked about my lesson. I had the kids use chalk out in the parking lot and illustrate what kindness is to them. This one kid drew a picture of him hugging his sister. It was so adorable. I took a picture of each of their drawing and then I had them write about what they drew, after I print out the pics we'll make a poster and put it in the classroom, I'm so excited! :D
O! I love this commercial! (I am in no way associated with Travelers Insurance, I just think this commercial is so fun!) Could you imagine being on a safari and coming across this watering hole? :D
well, I think that's enough for now, I'm still working on my brother's blanket, it's coming along nicely. I realized that football season = crochet fever. Crocheting gives me a good excuse to sit comfortably and watch the game without feeling like I'm wasting time ;)
Till next time!
Imani
So I've been meaning to make eggplant parmesan for a while, and the other day my grandpa found some really good eggplant at the grocery store so he went ahead and bought it. So on Friday, I was completely exhausted and I didn't wanna do anything involving the kitchen, but the eggplants were going to get old, so I buckled down and started making it, knowing the end result would pay off... AND BOY DID IT!! ooo man! It was soo incredibly good! The eggplant was tender and I love mozzarella, so I made sure to put plenty of that, but the fried breading and tomato sauce made an excellent accompaniment for the pasta... needless to say, it was won-der-ful! It was so wonderful that I ate way too much. On top of that, I had one of those ice cream drumsticks! :D I forgot how much I love sugar cones with ice cream... I was supposed to go "training" for my 5k that I was going to do the next day, but that was not going to happen ;) So anyways, I ended up going to bed late Friday and when I woke up at 7am on Saturday I had no wish to go run a 5k. But alas, I had promised my friend we'd go, and it was for Autism Speaks, so I was gonna drag myself out and do it. So me and my friend went and while we were standing around waiting, we saw everyone and they all just looked so athletic! I was like oo man, we're going to be last, we are soo gonna be the last ones to finish. Then as we were "running" (more like jogging, walking for a while, and then jogging again) I was like hey, we're not doing so bad, this might work out ;) It was her first 5k, so she was just kinda going with the flow, but we had fun. Definitely laughed at ourselves a couple of times. Once I bent down to tie my shoe and one of the race people were like are you down? Do I need to call a nurse? It was kind of funny, I bet we looked tired ;) Anyways, I had my best time for a 5k, ~42mins, so before all you expert runners start laughing about how slow that is, I'm proud of myself ;) hahaha! I told someone my time that night, and she was like ohhh, that's pretty good, and then she was like, actually, that's really slow. But anyways, it was fun, and it was for a good cause.
Football :D
:) the Colts wonn... o mannn, that game was such a nail biter! I was like are you kidding me?!?! And I can't believe Dallas lost!! They just played really horribly. Did anyone see the overtime between green bay and washington? That was a pretty strong kick :D I'm not a fan of washington, but ever since the packers let go of Favre, I just don't like them that much. I mean Favre definitely needs to make up his mind, but I like his spunk. Although if he flip flops at the end of this season, it's over. I'll be a huge packers fan.... just kidding. I don't think I could ever be a Packers fan, even if I lived in Green Bay, this is going to sound so odd, but whenever I think of the Packers I think of like an old backpack, which is so weird considering they have a young team, especially at quarterback, but whatever...
Sunday School Lesson
I have to say I'm pretty proud of myself. In Sunday school the next chapter I was going to teach was on kindness, and I was like this is such a cut and dry subject. Everyone knows you should be kind to each other, how am I supposed to make this interesting? So I was just hanging out around the house and it hit me all of a sudden! I was so excited, totally stoked about my lesson. I had the kids use chalk out in the parking lot and illustrate what kindness is to them. This one kid drew a picture of him hugging his sister. It was so adorable. I took a picture of each of their drawing and then I had them write about what they drew, after I print out the pics we'll make a poster and put it in the classroom, I'm so excited! :D
O! I love this commercial! (I am in no way associated with Travelers Insurance, I just think this commercial is so fun!) Could you imagine being on a safari and coming across this watering hole? :D
well, I think that's enough for now, I'm still working on my brother's blanket, it's coming along nicely. I realized that football season = crochet fever. Crocheting gives me a good excuse to sit comfortably and watch the game without feeling like I'm wasting time ;)
Till next time!
Imani
Thursday, October 7, 2010
he wants to be a teacher because....
hehe.... so today I was at Happy Valley and I ate lunch with the kids :) they had brownies for dessert and the little boy who was sitting next to me (he often gets in trouble for being "off task" but he is so smart and really sweet) but anyways, he sat down and he told me that one of the aides had a big brownie, that it was hanging off the side of her tray. and I was like really?!? that's huge! It might be because she's a teacher. About a minute later he told me "I wanna be a teacher here at Happy Valley when I grow up." And I thought to myself wow, this kid really has plans, that's impressive. And then I asked him what makes him want to be a teacher and he said "the brownies." It made me laugh soooo hard (on the inside). But it was so adorable! He wants to be a teacher for brownies...
When I was in first grade I kind of wanted to be a teacher so I could tell people what to do! ooo man... thinking back I can't believe that was my motive. I was really looking forward to being a teacher in 2nd grade when my teacher made me re-write a journal entry. I was so upset! I was going to become a teacher and then teach her kids and make them re-write stuff! (I'm sitting here shaking my head... what a far cry from the real passion a teacher should have... but don't worry, I've reformed my thinking ;) )
Anyone else have any amusing/inspirational I want to be a teacher because.. stories? I think it is so interesting what brings people to want to be teachers, especially elementary. There's such a variety of passion :)
hei (bye in Finnish)
Imani
When I was in first grade I kind of wanted to be a teacher so I could tell people what to do! ooo man... thinking back I can't believe that was my motive. I was really looking forward to being a teacher in 2nd grade when my teacher made me re-write a journal entry. I was so upset! I was going to become a teacher and then teach her kids and make them re-write stuff! (I'm sitting here shaking my head... what a far cry from the real passion a teacher should have... but don't worry, I've reformed my thinking ;) )
Anyone else have any amusing/inspirational I want to be a teacher because.. stories? I think it is so interesting what brings people to want to be teachers, especially elementary. There's such a variety of passion :)
hei (bye in Finnish)
Imani
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