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Hi everyone. Okay, so I haven't been very good with posting lately. I've been really busy and I'm updating now off my brand new blackberry curve. Woohooo! Um I saw my PT and obviously he kicked my ass. I haven't been counting points but I have been eating very healthy. Oh! I also found the gym at my job and went. It's not that great but it has bikes, stairmasters, treadmills and weights. What else could I really need right? What else...oh. I really want the wii fit. And the one with Jillian. Anyway I'm going to watch a movie and then I'll hopefully get to see how everyone is doing!!!
Friday, May 22, 2009
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Friday, May 15, 2009
Damn. That was one of the greater workouts I've had. Maybe it was the fact that I was pumped up because I just watched Bring It On. Or maybe it was the video. It is jam-packed with FUN. I can't wait to try the rest of the Turbo Jam series that is in my room. You don't even realize you're working out that hard until there are buckets of sweat pouring from every part of your body. Clearly, I really enjoyed it, lol.
Now, I'm going to go out to a Thai Restaurant and I'm not going to feel guilty at all. Not even a little bit. And I'm going to get all pretty and do my hair. And it's all because I feel great after a workout. Endorphins are a wonder.
I made a turkey burger today. Sooo good. Not better than a hamburger, but I can deal. I'll have a hamburger eventually, lol. I also ate baked potato chips. And I had turkey bacon for breakfast with one of those breakfast quesadillas. Basically, I've had the perfect combination of eating right and working out today and I am so, so happy. Wow. I don't even know what to post.
Oh. I do know what to post. I'm really scared about the upcoming week. Because tonight I'm sleeping over my friend's house and then I'm going to sing in a concert. So I won't be home until late Saturday night. I just don't want to break all the good work I've been doing and go completely nutso with food and lack of exercise. And then on Monday and Tuesday I'm going to be in Washington D.C. and we're eating out, EVERY DAY. I just have to stay strong, I guess.
Anyway, I have to go get ready, because I'm leaving in an hour. But I hope everyone had as good a day as I had and from my mouth to God's ears, I hope we can all be at least half as excited about losing weight everyday!
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Thursday, May 14, 2009
I Love My PT
So, today I went to see Lawrence again. It was my second free session. He may have kicked my ass, but I did end up wanting to pay for 25 sessions up front, which means this story has a happy ending.
So, last time, I came in with Converses, which are the devil. And today, I came in with new shoes. Which are worse the devil, because I almost cried from the intense pain in my feet. Those were my mom's. But he told me to get New Balance. So I'm going to get New Balance and I'm going to break those things in 'till the end of the dawn before Thursday. Because my feet were killing me. And we had to stick with mostly arms and upper leg exercises, which let me tell you, didn't make my face any less red or make me sweat any less, lol.
So, there was this one thing that he asked me to do. He rolled me a 5kg thing that looked like a basketball and asked me to throw it over the pull-up bar. The trick was I had to be sitting when he rolled me the ball and when I stood up, that was when I could throw it.
Basically, that was really really hard. First, because I'm not really that good at regular basketball. Second, because that thing was heavy as hell. At first, I kept hitting the bar and covering my head when it bounced back towards me. Eventually, I got it over those ten times. Then I went to do something else and then we started the circuit over again and I got back to that basketball thing with a mental goal that I would get it over every single time of the ten...
And I did. Which was the greatest feeling ever, because I set my mind to it and I did it. Yes, it hit the bar a couple of times, but it went over regardless all ten times on the first try. And it was great.
So he told me that he's going to present me with a "challenge" every time I come in and that sometimes, it's going to be tougher than I can believe and that sometimes, I'll be okay to do it. This is the part where the BL-loving part of my mind takes over and I get really excited. So we'll see what my challenge is next week.
Then he told me that I could either stop now or I could pay for the two lessons and keep going, depending on whether or not I want to continue. Obviously, I told him I wanted to continue. He also sat me down and told me that if at anytime during the week, I'm feeling really down, like I don't want to do this anymore, to call him and that he'll talk to me, any time of day, regardless of when and try to motivate me. Hence the title "I Love My PT." He's not one of those trainers--come in, do the work, get out. He wants to help even when I'm not there. And he answers all my questions a million times over.
Food intake was not the best, but after the session, I found myself to be RIDICULOUSLY hungry. But I'm okay now. And I'm stopping. I think I went over by 2 or 3 points, but I put them in my extra 35.
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Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Okay, so I can't really update right now, because BL is on for 3 hours. But I lost 2 pounds this week despite everything and...
Pardon the language. That's literally what I yelled out when I saw him. Wowowowowowow. Okay. That's all. More later when I'm done watching.
I'm going to try to do this quickly. I now officially weigh 214.2 on my WW scale and 213.6 on my at home scale. Yay five week frenzy! Doing good so far! Um, I'm a little iffy about Helen winning, because to me, she didn't look too healthy. I mean, I'm happy for her, but she looked too thin. She looked a little bit sick even. I would've much rather Tara won. And obviously, I wanted Mike to win, lol. Although, truthfully, out of all the top 3, I think Mike was the one that looked the healthiest. Tara looked...Worn out or something. I don't know what it was about her. But she looked like she was going to pass out or something right then and there, which didn't make me happy. But Mike looked healthy, happy, and alive, which is why, in my eyes, he's the biggest loser. Tara and Helen keep going like this, they're going to gain the weight back, God forbid. So hopefully they can calm down a little now that the competition is over and start living life normally, somewhere in the middle of psychotic and overweight, lol.
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Monday, May 11, 2009
I Didn't Think I Could
Today, I did the impossible. Sometimes, I wake up in the morning and I just don't want to do anything. Well, no, that's not the right way to explain it. I want to do what I have to do, but my body is pushing me and telling me that I just can't today. My eyes are closing, I'm sluggish, the works. So you know how I promised myself a crazy workout? Well, unfortunately, today was one of those days. I told myself I would go to work out at 3, because I thought I'd be out of my slump. I wasn't. And I ended up going at 3:20. And I went to do level 2 of the 30 day shred. I did not want to do. I was so confused and so upset. Usually, I can find something to get myself excited about working out. But all I wanted to do was sleep. And I wasn't outwardly whining, but I could feel myself about to whine. But what I did, which was amazing to me, was that I didn't quit. I got through that entire workout. Yes, I did quite a few of those five second breaks. And I did some of the strength exercises without weights. But I worked through my sluggishness. And I did not think that was possible. Now, I'm going to eat, I'm going to relax a little, I'm going to shower, and then I am getting on that treadmill.
It was so weird, though. Like, no matter what I told myself about a weigh-in tomorrow and no matter how much I tried to get myself in the spirit, I was just so tired. Maybe it's cause I slept too much. That can have a bad effect on you too. When I woke up, it was nearly one o'clock. That's not good. But I was really tired. That can't happen again. Anyway, I'll update more later when the day is more close to over. I just really wanted to share my accomplishment.
Random. But my stumble brought me to this. It really puts in perspective how you're living your life. It's also a game. So it's fun. So here you go...It's called The Longevity Game.
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Sunday, May 10, 2009
I Think I'm Paranoid
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Thursday, May 7, 2009
Personal Trainer & Advice on Eating He Gave Me
Wow. I did not know working out until I met Laurence. Let me tell you, I got my ass whooped and it was just an intro session. Apparently, I get two sessions free and if I don't think it's for me, then I don't pay. If I decide to continue, then I pay for those and keep going.
Today, they took all my measurements and everything.
Apparently, on their scale, I am 213. Weird. But whatever. He told me every scale is different, so I'm just going to count it on my WW scale. And he also told me something VERY interesting, that I think you all should know about.
It seems so obvious, but I don't think anyone really does it. He told me a way to distribute my points so that I'm eating a lot in the morning (like 9 points) and then a 4 point snack and then a 7 point lunch and then a 3 point snack and then a 5 point dinner.
So, basically, eat a lot in the morning and work your way down until you're up to dinner and dont' eat after dinner unless you can help it.
Why this works...(such an obvious reason, I can't believe I didn't see it)
During the day, you walk around. You go to school, you go to work, you go to the gym, you walk home, etc. So when you eat a huge breakfast, you're burning it off as you're just going through your daily routine. At least some of it.
But when you eat a huge dinner, you're probably not going on the treadmill. You're probably sitting around, doing some work, watching some tv, writing on your blog, etc. Which means you're not burning calories. So why would you eat a big dinner?
So, the moral...Big breakfast, small dinner, more calories burned.
I'm putting this to the test starting tomorrow and seeing what happens.
He also told me that a healthy weight for me would be anywhere from 150-168. Which, I guess, was a little disappointing for me, because as some of you know, I was aiming for 140. What he told me is that my lean muscle is about 127 pounds of my body. You don't want to go anywhere near that lean muscle. Because if you do, you'll start getting weak. And that's not something I want. It's upsetting, I guess, that I'm big-boned and I'll never be as thin as my sister-in-law, for example, but it's comforting to know that I have less weight to lose to be healthy than I thought.
One last thing...I think that everyone should go and get their body fat measured. It's basically just this little thing that pinches your fat and tells you what percentage is fat and what percentage is lean muscle. That'll put it in perspective. Where do you have the most fat, in reality? What exactly do you need to work on? For those of you out there with a personal trainer, I'd really suggest asking him if he can do that for you. Because after he explained it to me, I feel like I understood how much weight I really should be losing.
So I should be losing 1-3 pounds a week starting next week. Of course, that's just a guesstimate. And, healthily, in about eight months, I should be down to a good size. I won't be any size zero, but I will be healthy. And I will not be sick. And to me, that's way better than being weak.
Now, I have a question for everyone. Have you tried this eating a lot in the morning thing? And how has it worked for you?
PS If you live in the Brooklyn, New York area, I would totally recommend going to Mike Duffy's. It's all personal trainers and they are AWESOME. They get you in shape, they drive you like you're in the military, but they have a way of motivating you. At least that's what I've seen so far. So you should definitely try it out. They also have them in Monmouth, NJ and another place in New Jersey that I can't remember.
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Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Rain, Rain, Go Away.
I hate the rain right now. It's on my hit list. It's been raining and cloudy for the entire week and not only has it got me totally down and sleepy, but I also haven't been able to do my walks outside. So, yesterday, I did yoga/pilates, while watching One Tree Hill and that was after I already did Jillian Level 2. That crap hurts. I did it again too and I don't think I'm going to do it two days in a row ever again. Because I'm working the same muscles over and over again and it's taking a toll on my body. You're supposed to work different muscle groups every day and I can't afford to have my muscles dead for Thursday when I have my personal trainer. So I'm going to chillax tomorrow and either go on the treadmill or just walk around (depending on the weather).
So I'm walking to my Weight Watchers meeting in a few. And I really need a good weigh-in today. I think I did well. But I'm still always nervous. Because things happen and I had my monthly friend this week. Damn her.
Um, what else? Oh yeah. Biggest Loser tonight! I'm so excited! And my final exam is tomorrow. And then I'm going to a Yankee game. So I've got an exciting couple of days coming up!
I'll update after my WW meeting and I'll talk about my loss/gain.
So, WW wasn't amazing. BUT I am proud of myself for something. First of all, I lost .4 pounds, which is, like, nothing. But I had my monthly friend. And my monthly friend usually KILLS me. I usually gain at least two pounds. The fact that I lost .4 (and possibly more since I was wearing jeans and a sweater this week) with my monthly friend is pretty amazing to me. Other than that, I've also reached the five pound mark! And my next mark is 5%. Six pounds to go! I walked to my WW meeting, which was also great. Well, during the walk, I wanted to kill someone because I felt like I was walking too slow and then when I sped up, my legs hurt and then argh. But afterwards, I was so happy that I'd made it that far that the pain and the annoyance didn't get to me.
This WW meeting came at the perfect time. It was about positive thinking. She gave us this really cute poem about gardens and gave us each a carnation. It was adorable. And one of the biggest things in the meeting was that you have to pull all the weeds out of your "garden" no matter how many times they grow back in the worst places. It was all very metaphorical and I enjoyed it.
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Monday, May 4, 2009
Personal Trainer
So, I got me a personal trainer. Well, my mom offered it to me. And I told her hell yes. So we went shopping today. And I'm going to be training with this guy named Laurence. When I told him I wanted my ass kicked, he told me that he had been in the military for ten years and that he'd kick my ass even if I didn't want it kicked. So that was really great. And it'll be good. Because when I shook his hand, I thought my hand was going to fall off. And I think he was being gentle, lol. So my first appointment is Thursday at two o'clock.
Anyway, that made me pretty happy. So now it's actually time to kick my own ass and go do a Jillian tape. It's like a "Last Chance Workout" before my Weight Watchers meeting tomorrow. I'll probably do Level 2 Jillian, rest a little, then get on the treadmill. Kill me now before it hurts.
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Sunday, May 3, 2009
Dress Pants.
I have not been able to wear dress pants since last year. I dont' remember the last time I could wear them and be okay with it. And today, I had to wear dress pants for the open house. And I was really annoyed and scared. But just now, I put on dress pants and they fit. And it's one of the happiest moments I've had.
Update more when the day actually begins.
So, today was a pretty good day overall. Except I am pissed as hell at my boss. I put all this time and effort into the open house. I did absolutely everything right, despite my being seventeen and having no experience. Everyone told me I did a great job. Unfortunately, he barely marketed the event and not a lot of people showed up. So my hard work was practically for nothing. The kids that did come had an amazing time. I just wish there were more of them.
Like, I hate that. He puts all this pressure on me but does absolutely nothing himself. And he's the professional here. I'm practically a baby.
Alright, whatever. So interesting news. I emailed Ron Morelli. I got his email address off of the South Lyon website and emailed him. I know that my investigating abilities are really creepy. But regardless, that's how I know it's really him. And I told him about how I want to lose weight and whatever. And he was SO sweet. He told me to never stop trying and not to hate myself and not to beat myself up if I have a bad day and that it looks like I'm on my way to a good start. And it was just really nice of him. And I asked him to pass my email on to Mike (eeek!) and hopefully he says he will. And he also said to keep in touch. Basically, it was a nice moment. And I might get killed for this, but the brown team was always one of my favorites, because they both had SO MUCH to overcome. And they fought. And I respect that. Especially Mike. I mean, he broke the record for the fifteenth week. The poor guy must've sweat blood the way he worked. And Ron was just so unhealthy and he's really brought himself back to a normal level. It's crazy how hard the two of them had to work and I'm glad they did it. So that was super exciting.
Other than that, I didn't get to work out because I had a million and a half things to do. But tomorrow, I'm going to kick my own ass. Really hard. I'm going to do Level 2 Shred and run on the treadmill. "This ain't no game" as one of my best friends would say, lol.
Oh! More exciting news! My mom is giving me a present: A personal trainer. The problem is taht I'm going to have to shop around and really find the one that I want. Because my biggest qualification for this personal trainer is: Be Jillian Michaels. No, I'm kidding. But basically, I need someone who will NOT feel bad for me even if I cry or scream. And I need someone who will not let me stop even if I'm begging. So I'll have to find someone heartless, basically.
That's all for today. AP Test tomorrow! Eek!
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Saturday, May 2, 2009
Planet Hollywood
Hey. So today was a pretty good day. The only problems were beer and Smirnoff Ice. But I'll work out a lot tomorrow to make up for it.
I had a chicken, tomato, and avocado sandwich at Planet Hollywood and it was great.
Um, other than that, I've got nothing much to say. Maybe later.
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Friday, May 1, 2009
Very Talkative...
I'm very talkative today. After watching The Biggest Loser on my DVR, I'm going a little bananas with the ideas in my head. Plus I forgot stuff since I haven't posted in forever.
So, I ate Whole Wheat Pizza today. So good! Filled me right up and it was only four points. Also, I've been eating Lean Cuisine every night and I think it's really helping. I know I shouldn't liveon frozen food and I don't, but most of the time, I just don't have the time to cook food. And with Lean Cuisine, I'm not being killed.
Also, does anyone out there want to start a sort of Biggest Loser challenge? I mean, I can't offer a quarter of a million dollars (if I could, I'd have a personal trainer and a nutritionist, lol) and I don't even know what I can offer other than a job well done and a pat on the back. Obviously, we would get together on a blog, let's say, Tuesday. And we would say how much we lost and/or gained. And Monday could be our "Last Chance" workouts and we could talk about what we've been doing. The only thing is, if someone fell below our "yellow" line, they totally wouldn't get voted off. They'd just have been the two that fell below the yellow line. By the end of, let's say, two months, whoever loses the most weight wins. I think it may be a bit donuts for dinner, but it's an idea. Someone let me know if you'd be interested. Anyone? Lol. Okay.
Also, Jillian just KICKED my butt. I have a mirror in the room where I exercise and I've realized that I have this problem. When I see my red face and the huffing and puffing, I tend to stop and take a five second break. However, I covered the mirror. And if I don't look at myself, I keep going and when I look in the mirror after the workout, I'm happy my face is bright red and there's sweat dripping everywhere. I don't know. I guess it's a psychological thing.
Anyway, I think that may actually be it for the day. I think...
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Time to Work Harder.
I've been working hard lately. I walked 60 blocks earlier this week and I just want to walk more and more and more. On Tuesday, I got on the scale at my WW meeting and lost 4.6 pounds. I am out of the 220's and I will NEVER go back again. No matter what. I will never be at 220 pounds in my life.
Watching The Biggest Loser (I cried like a baby seven times) today, I just got even more motivated. These people lose nine pounds a week. Yes, obviously, they sweat and bleed and cry and they have all day to work out. But if they can lose nine, I can lose another five. I won't be disappointed next Tuesday as long as I lose something. Anything. More than two pounds would be good.
I got my prom dress. Very happy about it. Haven't taken pictures yet, but when I do, they'll be up here.
Um, so on the topic of biggest loser, I think I have a crush on Mike. Lmao. But really. He's great. And when I saw him in that jacket, daaaaamn. That's probably why I want him to win, haha. And the way he helps his dad, it was just adorable. Okay. I'm stopping. I'm sorry. Anyway, if not for him, I want Tara to win. She is gorgeous. When they were showing the before and after videos and pictures, I was bawling. Because they all said they didn't realize how fat they were and I feel like that's me. I feel like I know I'm fat but until I lose all the weight, I won't know just how fat I am right now. It sounds confusing, but I think it's because I have nothing to compare to. I guess when I look at pictures from fifth grade, I'm just like "Wow. I was so skinny." But I convince myself that hormones did it. And partially, they did. But there will be no excuse when I take all this weight off.
I'm tired of not being able to wear the cutest clothes. I'm tired of being embarrassed to eat in public. I'm tired of being embarrassed to go shopping with my own friends. And I am hella tired of going to a party and wondering if I'm going to be the fattest person in the room. I am tired, tired, tired. And once all this weight comes off, I will never be in that place again. Ever. It just won't happen. It can't.
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Activity 2: After you have finished up in Taupo, it is time to hop back in the car and head for Rotorua – a town where will have the chance for some much needed rest and relaxation. In fact, you will visit the Tarawera Bush Pool – a geothermal hot pool that is located in the middle of a forest. The warm water in the pool comes from underneath the ground. After a few hours in the pool you feel really relaxed.
On your blog, post a picture of yourself doing something relaxing. I find reading really relaxing. Here is a picture of me reading one of my favourite books!
After a long soak in the natural hot pools, it is time to get back home. Your family and friends can't wait to see you and they can't wait to hear all about your adventures. Take a moment to think about what you have seen and done over the past week.
What I Think is relaxing is listening to music. I really love music and especially when I know the whole lyrics.
task description: This is the 2nd to last post I am going to be doing for winter learning journey but I will be posting on Monday about the weekend I had because tomorrow I am going up north and maybe the day after that we might go to cape Regina.

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In the Holidays we ran our own Team 4 blogging challenge. Lots of us participated, and blogged about different things that we got up to. Some of us chose to complete the challenges that Mr Goodwin created to help us. Each of these challenges had some kind of reading activity, as well as a task to complete, and share on our blog.
Here are the 5 winners from across all of Team 4. The prizes were given for:
- The most posts
- Audience appeal
- Quality of posts
- Creativity
- Best Commenting
The Top 10 bloggers had a combined total number of blog posts of 208. That means most of us were posting more than twice a day!
We can't wait for the Woolf Fisher Winter Learning Journey next holidays!


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The last thing we need is another song--much less an entire album--about a band on the road. So there's reason to worry when you hear that R.E.M. recorded most of the tunes for "New Adventures" while on tour--often during afternoon sound checks.
And in the album, the quartet does touch on many of the themes that you might expect to come out of the disorienting highs and lows of a year or so on the concert trail.
There are songs of despair ("Undertow"), exhibitionism (the glam-driven "The Wake-Up Bomb"), longing ("Be Mine"), escapism ("Electrolite") and dangerous habits ("So Fast, So Numb").
What distinguishes "New Adventures" is that it takes those and other feelings and expresses them through characters who don't necessarily have anything to do with the rock world.


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Saturday, 14 August 2010
Swords into Ploughshares
I expected it to be exhibitions in an old building possibly even a castle; it was neither. The building was a beautiful modern structure sitting next to the Leeds Liverpool canal set over 5 floors. The entrance was impressive as you could look up to walkways making it a beautiful airy light space. The atrium where the stairs were was filled with swords and suits of armour which was breathtaking. It struck me that it was a display of beauty out of weapons of destruction. A verse came to mind from the Bible as I looked around the displays and looked at the thousands of years of our history where weapons and battles played so a major part in all parts of our world. The earliest documented history of fighting was 10,000 years ago, 10,000 years of war! It made me feel so sad that man's ingenuity was put into designing armour, swords, guns and weapons of destruction. The beauty of the design on some of the armour was again a work of art, but these things were never meant to be worn and admired on a cat walk but to be a protection for the wearer who would be set on defeating and killing their enemies.
There is one area given over to the problem of guns and knives and shows the very sad story of Danny Regan a known drug dealer from Leeds who was shot in 2002. His mother Pat started an organisation 'mothers against violence' and worked bringing the display together in the museum. They even have the scene of his death displayed as a 'scene of crime'. The biggest sadness is then the death of Pat herself killed very sadly by her own grandson. I prayed as we came to the end of our tour this verse that had been playing on my mind whilst walking round the impressive display.
Micah 4 v 3
He will judge between many peoples and will settle disputes for strong nations far and wide. They will beat their swords into ploughshares and their spears into pruning hooks.
Nation will not take up sword against nation, nor will they train for war anymore.
Beverley Molineaux
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I devote a fair amount of wall space in my classroom to a word wall. I know that not all teachers do this, and I've read plenty of criticisms in the past about why word walls are impractical (too large and overwhelming to students, not used by students, etc.). But I want to share how I use a word wall in my classroom to counter some of those criticisms.
At the beginning of the year, I put up a large empty word wall.
Each week, on a separate area of our whiteboard, I'll introduce some content-area vocabulary on word wall cards that are color-coded by subject. For some -- like the math vocabulary -- I have QR codes linked to each word so that students can look up the definitions. Others are just the word. We'll do a variety of vocabulary-related activities throughout the week, and then once the words are learned, we'll move them to the big wall. Here's an example of that with some of our math vocabulary words (green & blue background with QR codes) and an International Baccalaureate Learner Profile Trait (green and polka dotted background).
The second way that I use the wall, however, is even more important. We use it as a source of constant review throughout the day. During many of our transitions, I'll choose a word, share the definition or a related concept, and the students have to use the wall to figure out what word I'm referring to. I'll have students do this to earn spots in line, transition to get materials, or as a sponge as we wait for other teachers to arrive, etc. As students get better with this routine, I have them start to give the clues to each other so that they're remembering the vocabulary and using it regularly. I hardly ever do test prep throughout the year, and by constantly revisiting these words, I don't think we need to. The word wall is a great visual reminder to me about the words they need to know and the concepts we've talked about.
Don't get me wrong. I think there's a lot of value to having personal word walls and smaller, focused word walls for particular units. But in the best of worlds, I think kids benefit from both.
I've spent a lot of time working on creating durable word cards for my word wall this year, and on Monday and Tuesday, all of my word wall sets at TpT will be 28% off with the code CMT12.
These card sets are normally priced between $3 - $8, and I have them available for the following topics:
Math - All Common Core aligned and embedded with QR codes linked to the definitions:
Do you have a Word Wall in your classroom? I'd love to hear how you use it in the comments section!
Have a great weekend!
Saturday, November 24, 2012
Word Walls
Posted by Alison Eber at 8:00 AM
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I love your blog lay out and I just added so much of your stuff to my TPT wish list! Thanks :)ReplyDelete
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I realize this is an older post but I wanted to say thank you for sharing this!! I LOVE the idea of using the QR codes along with the vocab, that is sheer genius! Thank you so much!!!ReplyDelete
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Think of hard-boiled detective stories and you're thinking of writer Raymond Chandler and character Phillip Marlowe. There were other influences on the genre, notably Dashiell Hammett and his creation Sam Spade, but Spade, as his alliterated name suggests, was a cartoon; Mike Hammer even more so, but Hammett could at least write. That Ayn Rand and Frank Miller are big fans of Spade should tell you all you need to know about him as an artist and human being.
Marlowe, as Graham Percy plays him, is a schlub. This is distinct from a schmuck or schmiel. A schlub is a schmuck that you can't help but like. Percy is brilliantly cast here: he's all jowls and the bags under his eyes, a smile that recalls Sam Rockwell at his most eager to please, pants up far too high. In film, Marlowe has been portrayed by Humphrey Bogart and Robert Mitchum, but if you were to extend his basic schlubishness in this adaptation you'd arrive at Paul Giamatti. His idea of dressing for a date is a beat-up black jacket instead of a beat-up brown jacket. While in the 1978 film version he bemoans having only "a hat, a coat and a gun," here he has to be given the hat as an act of charity. He drinks. Boy does he ever drink. If you tried to keep up you'd wind up in the emergency room or morgue. And women love him. Every single woman in the play falls madly in love with him, usually within minutes of meeting him. They're drunks, too, but it's the schlub's magnetism that has him punching far outside of his weight class, romantically speaking.
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Betsy is working on her Ph.D. on the nexus between religion and landscape use at Montana State University. She is due to defend her dissertation in 2017.
She founded and served as Executive Director of the Tributary Fund after visiting the Eg-Uur watershed and Dayan Derkh Monastery ruins in 2002 and falling in love with the religion, culture, landscapes, and people of Mongolia. The Tributary Fund worked to protect endangered wildlife and their habitats by celebrating and amplifying cultural traditions that honor nature in Mongolia, Bhutan, and the American West.
Betsy earned her MS in Environmental Studies at University of Montana. She lived in Kenya, working for the East African Wildlife Society and held positions at Montana State University's Center for Native American Studies and Wallace Stegner Western Studies program. Today she is a lecturer in World Religions and Culture at YTI.


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|The one and only -- Gene, Debbie, and Donald
I watched Singing In the Rain last niight. What a work of art -- the result of these wonderful stars, and hundreds of other people, working together to make something that will bring joy to everyone who sees it, forever. What a legacy for all of them.
|There she is -- Debbie Reynolds as Kathy Seldon
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Teething Problems
Can't we all just get along people?
There has been a lot of changes and transitions going on in the tech world as some of you may have noticed, so I would like to take a look at what's going on and try to see past these issues to the future. Like with any change there will be what I call teething problems, change hurts as we humans are creatures of habit, we (or most of us) find out how the world works and we develope a habit or routine that allows us to go through most of life on auto pilot. This gives us a kind of peace as we don't need to make a lot of decisions every day, naturally when things do inevitably change it hurts until we get used to the new, like cruising at mach 2 in a fighter jet then making a 9 G turn, the law of inertia hurts and crushes us until we catch up with the jet then we are fine. So in this series of post I plan to look at the major issues facing us in this transition and reassure people that we will eventually make it through and what's going on now, as bad as it is, is actually natural.
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The sailing- judging community has been joined by a new blogger, an enthusiast young judge from Hungary who started with a rulesblog called "Live Slow - Sail Fast!"
I've been reading his posts - by using the English translation button. The syntax gets a little garbled but I can follow most of it. But even if I couldn't, it is still a good initiative - to provide some background for Hungarian judges, officials and sailors.
* From an LTW readers Email: Longboats: A longboat is a small rowing boat kept on the deck of a larger ship for the purpose of getting ashore. A longship is a warship/troop transport of the Viking period.


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Title: Luxury Brands Are Wrong to Ignore Africa
Dated: 8-6-2014
With growth slowing in key markets like China, luxury brands should examine the numbers, overcome their fears about image and turn their attention to Africa, argues Johanna Collins-Wood.
LONDON, United Kingdom — Earlier this year, Nigeria became Africa's largest economy and the 26th largest economy in the world, valued at $509 billion, based on GDP figures that were recalculated using a base year of 2010 instead of 1990. Given Nigeria's new status, as well as its new crop of millionaires and billionaires, who have become wealthy through oil (Nigeria is the 11th largest oil-producing nation in the world), Nollywood entertainment and other business ventures, one might assume that major luxury good companies would turn their attention towards Nigeria, as well as other emerging markets in Africa, as an important source of opportunity. That, however, is not the case.
Despite rushing to every other inhabited continent in the world, luxury retailers have steadfastly limited their investment in Africa. Louis Vuitton has only four stores on the entire continent, two each in Morocco and South Africa. Gucci has only one store in Morocco and two in South Africa. This stands in stark contrast to other emerging markets, like Latin America, for example, where most of the world's well-known luxury goods companies have established a strong retail presence.
Without doubt, opening stores in Africa presents brands with significant logistical challenges. But the two primary arguments often given against wider expansion into the African market are 1) people who live in Africa are, overall, too poor to purchase luxury goods and 2) wealth in African countries such as Nigeria was acquired under questionable circumstances and brands could suffer a reputation problem if they were viewed as ignoring this. In a column earlier this year for The Financial Times, Vanessa Friedman highlighted both opinions, first quoting "the CEO of an enormously successful international accessory brand that will remain nameless," who says he chose not to move into the Nigerian market because he "didn't feel comfortable with where a lot of the money was coming from." Friedman went on say that the decision by many luxury goods companies not to move into Nigeria and other parts of Africa was "in some ways, a question of image."
What she does not say is that the "image" of Africa that many luxury goods companies appear to harbour is one of poor, struggling nations with poor, struggling people whose only method of obtaining wealth is to lie, cheat and steal. And luxury good companies do not want their carefully crafted brands associated with such a place. Readers may form their own opinion as to whether there is also a touch of racism at work here.
But whatever the reason for this poor image of Africa, it is, at best, simply incorrect. It is true that more than 60 percent of Nigeria's population is thought to live in severe poverty. However, Nigeria also has more billionaires than any other African country. Lagos, the Nigerian capital, is Africa's largest city and is home to a burgeoning wealthy class. With the Chinese market beginning to decelerate and Asian customers becoming more selective in the luxury goods they buy, retailers should be examining all their options for expansion. And, considering the industry's skill in creating the desire for its products in every other continent, it is almost certain they could do the same in Nigeria and other parts of Africa.
The other argument for not moving into the African market — that money in Africa is acquired through illicit means — is simply ridiculous. Luxury good companies have never cared how customers acquired the money used to purchase their products. If they did, they would have to turn away significant numbers of customers from markets such as China and Russia.
Paulina says: Are Luxury Brands Wrong to Ignore Africa? Yes is the simple answer!!! Also, if said brands are worried about where the uber wealthy of Africa get their monies from --maybe they should also be worried about the likes of India, China, Russia, most of South America et al --just saying. Do read the above article in its entirety via: http://www.businessoffashion.com/2014/06/op-ed-luxury-brands-wrong-ignore-africa.html


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Little Bookworm went off to school today with her "motor project." It began a month ago, when she came home with a small motor — a small cylinder with two wires sticking out the bottom and a little spindle coming out of the top. If you press the wires to the two ends of a battery, the spindle spins.
Little Bookworm's project was to glue something to the top of the spindle that would revolve when the wires were connected to the battery, then to place the "finished project" in a theme decorated shoe box. After umpteen hours of working on it — and my contribution of glue gun labor — Little Bookworm marched off to school with a shoe box that had a drawn on the back wall a ferris wheel and a wonderfully maze-like roller coaster. The motor was mounted on a block and, affixed to the top was a disc of paper which had attached to its edges strings, and on the bottom of those strings, little squares of paper representing passenger seats. The final result is very charming.
When it was finished, I asked Little Bookworm, "So, what did you learn about motors?" Her answer: "Nothing." "Well, what did Ms. Teacher tell you about the project when she assigned it?" Answer: "Take it home and make a diorama showing the motor spinning." "Did she explain how a motor works?" "No." Lest this simply be Little Bookworm not paying attention, I asked the same questions of two other classmates in the neighborhood. They, too, saw this as an arts and crafts project, without having any idea about motors.
The motor project was a home project. There's also been a lot of arts and crafts time in school, because of the "Mission project." California 4th graders all study the Missions that the Spanish put in place between San Diego and Sonoma, beginning in the 18th Century.
Here's what I can tell you about missions, based upon just my memories of my 4th grade public school studies 35 years ago: The missions were built by the Spanish, who "owned" California. The Catholic priests came out with the soldiers and traders, with the plan that they would convert the Indians to Christianity. The missions were built along a highway called "El Camino Real," which still exists today. Each mission was built to be no further than one day's horseback ride from the next mission, making them sort of like motels for Spanish travelers. The Indians did a lot of labor building the missions. They worked there, were schooled there and, when they died, were buried there. The missions were built of adobe brick, a combination of mud and straw. They had very thick walls, which helped keep them cool in the summer and warm in the winter. And on and on. I've since developed a more mature understanding of the missions (this kind of knowledge), of course, but it exists almost side by side with my original exposure.
At Little Bookworm's school, they've been "building" missions from milk cartoons, plaster of Paris, kidney beans (for the tile roofs), fake grass and trees, etc. Done with a lot of parent help, they are arts and crafts marvels, and quite lovely to look at. So I asked Little Bookworm, "What did you learn about the missions?" "The priests built them using Indian slave labor." Well, that's a bit PC for the very complex relationship that existed between the priests and the Indians (since the former viewed the Indians as souls to be saved and raised up, not only as primitive laborers, while the Indians viewed the priests as powerful beings who were not felled by smallpox and who were accompanied by men with all powerful guns and horses), but it's still an answer and accurate so far as it goes.
"What did they use to build them?" "Adobe, which is a mixture of manure, straw and mud." (Good answer, and I'm so glad she didn't say milk cartons and plaster of Paris.)
"Who were the priests?" "I don't know." That's still okay, because I don't really expect the school to teach them the nuances of 18th and 19th Century Spanish Catholicism.
"Where did the priests come from?" "Spain." (Yes! She knows a hard core fact.)
"Why were the priests there?" "I don't know."
"Why were the Spanish in California?" "I don't know."
"How come California was Spanish and not American?" "I don't know."
"What purpose did the Missions serve?" "I don't know." (She was thrilled to learn about the motel and "one day's ride" aspect.)
"How did the priests get the Indians to work on the Missions?" "I don't know." (A little explanation here about guns, disease and faith.)
And on and on. Frankly, I wouldn't mind how little she knew if I didn't know that she's spent at least 20 classroom hours on this project. That means that, out of 20 classroom hours, the only hardcore information she's taken away is that priests came from Spain, enslaved Indians, and built Missions out of adobe bricks made from clay, straw and manure. That strikes me as a very poor return on time spent.
I'm harping on this because it ties in to my constant gripe about what I see as the public school system's profound misunderstanding of arts and crafts. Thirty or forty years ago, educationalists figured out the obvious, which is that not all people learn through words, but that some people are better visual or tactile learners. The logical thing to do, and the thing that you see in my beloved Montessori, is to focus on key issues related to any given subject, but to give kids the chance to study and express the information through the medium most natural to them. The schools, instead, simply abandoned the idea of conveying lots of information, or enabling the kids to learn lots of information, dumbed down lots of subjects so that they could be turned into giant arts and crafts projects. The Mission project is a perfect case in point.
To my mind, the best way to have taught the kids about the Missions would have been to get the kids excited about Missions. Tell about the great explorers casting out from Portugal and Spain. Explain about the discovery of the Americas. Tell about the Spanish greed for gold, silver, land and Christian souls. Tell of the brave explorers, the vile killers and the good (and bad) Fathers. Tell about the Indians' first horrifying exposures to guns, horses and disease, three things that left many of the survivors believing that the Spaniards were either inherently superior or had tapped into a better religion. And so on. It doesn't have to be a pretty story, but it's not either the simplistic story of my youth (Spanish brought God) or the simplistic story of my kids' youth (Spanish brought slavery). It's a rich and exciting story of greed, faith, warfare, disease, innocence, etc. It's a most exciting narrative if it's not sucked of its life so as to support a milk carton infrastructure.
By the way, this is the type of story that can be read or told in a couple of mornings at school. Having piqued the kids' interest, then tell them to do research and come back with a project that reflects a certain aspect of this era, or of the Missions specifically, or whatever. Depending on their skills, the children can write an essay, draw cartoon panels, make a diorama, write play, or do any other thing that enables them to take what they've learned and integrate that knowledge into a unified whole. I know kids can do this because I've seen them do it.
As it is, after 20 hours, my daughter learned almost nothing about the Spanish in California or about the Missions — but she learned a whole heck of a lot about milk carton construction techniques.


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—Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
10th Annual National African-American Women's Fitness Month™ (NAAWFM) (Link)
April 1 - 30, 2016
A national event designed to encourage health awareness through physical activity for African-American women. The event will increase awareness of the health risks associated with a sedentary lifestyle and promote the benefits of an active lifestyle.
6th Annual NAAWFM Fitness Fun Walk™ (Link)
April 16, 2016, 9:00 AM
This event is designed to increase awareness of the health risks associated with a sedentary lifestyle and promote the benefits of an active lifestyle. Walking distance: 3k (1.86 miles) at the Prince George's Sports & Learning Complex indoor track. All participants must complete a registration form and sign Release Form to participate in the Fitness Fun Walk. Free and open to the public.
6th AnnualNational Exercise With Your Child Week™ (Link)
August 7 - August 13, 2016
This week encourages parents and guardians to exercise with their children as part of a healthier lifestyle. Exercise enables children to improve their overall well being, to maintain a healthier weight and to reduce the risk of hypertension and cardiovascular disease.
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I got a hot tip in my inbox today from one of my favorite hosting companies, WP Engine. For a limited time, when you visit their website and put in the Konami Code (below), you'll save 20% on your purchase. To activate this discount, enter the following code using arrows and letters on their keyboard when viewing their website:
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Couchio's Hosted CouchDB Service: Beta Preview Launched
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Apache CouchDB is a NoSQL (or as Couchio calls it - "post-relational") document-oriented database. The technology is known for its ability to work offline and to sync data into and out of the database after being disconnected for a while. It also comes with many of the other key advantages in a NoSQL solution, including the ability to scale vertically along a wide range of devices.
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Developers could use this service to host CouchDB apps in a traditional, over-the-network database server with an application server, or you can forgo the application server and serve the app straight out of CouchDB. Organizations can set up a backup database that's always accessible, even offline, running on cheap hardware within their enterprise.
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CHICAGO – CPS today launched the website for Chicago: Ready to Learn!, a forum to provide high quality early education options for the City's youngest learners. Starting on March 3rd, parents will be able to apply to CPS' early education programs by going to cps.edu/readytolearn. Children who will be 3 years old by September 1, 2014 and reside in the City of Chicago are eligible to apply. Parents will also be able to enroll in other early learning programs throughout the year.
"I believe the most important thing we can do for our city is set our children on a path for success, which is why we are committed to providing every student in Chicago with a high-quality education – from cradle to career, from pre-kindergarten to college," Mayor Rahm Emanuel said. "Investing in these high quality early education options pays dividends for our communities by ensuring we are giving our children the resources and tools they need to eventually graduate 100 percent college ready and 100 percent college bound."
The Mayor launched Ready to Learn by bringing CPS and the Department of Family and Support Services (DFSS) together to manage resources under one early education system. Through a coordinated application and review process, Ready to Learn has allowed CPS and DFSS to better distribute funds while also ensuring that all programs receiving city funding have the quality staff and resources to prepare students for Kindergarten and beyond.
Ready to Learn is also part of Mayor Emanuel's three-year, $36 million investment in early childhood education that has significantly expanded early learning opportunities citywide. This three year investment will expand access to DFSS and CPS' early learning programs for 5,000 new children who are not currently being served and raise quality of current programs for 6,000 children already enrolled by adding wraparound services such as intensive parent engagement, nursing services, or community partnerships. This investment has also helped increase the quality and quantity of early learning options in communities across the City where they have been limited in the past, which includes a new Early Learning and Wellness Center serving Englewood and the Back of the Yards communities.
"We know that the early years are critical to a child's future success, which is why we have made this commitment to ensuring that all students are prepared for a 21st century education before they walk through our doors," said CPS CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett. "Through our partnership with DFSS, we can ensure that students receive the instruction they will need to prepare them to graduate and be successful in college and career."
Research indicates that high-quality early childhood programs boost academic skills, foster independence, and instill a lifelong love of learning. Further, children who attend high-quality early childhood programs are 29 percent more likely to graduate from high school and earn a 33 percent higher salary on average. In addition to the academic benefits, early childhood programs connect children with wrap-around services like parent engagement and empowerment opportunities, access to social services, and medical and dental providers. The latter is particularly important, as research has shown that children who have regular medical care during their pre-school years begin kindergarten healthy and have better attendance and academic performance throughout the year.
Applications for CPS school-based early childhood programs can be accessed by visiting cps.edu/readytolearn, or can be picked up at a local elementary school or at one of 17 application sites throughout the city. Children who will be 3 years old by September 1, 2014 and reside in the city of Chicago are eligible to apply. All applications must be submitted in person at one of the 17 centralized application sites, or at local elementary schools on designated days. Proof of residency, income and the child's age will be required with all applications. The deadline for submitting an application is April 11, 2014, and notification letters will be sent to parents in early May.
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Saturday, January 7, 2012
Weekend Features and Sister Sunday Link Party
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So nice to meet you just found your beautiful blog and so happy I did. I have enjoyed looking around and I'm now following you, so nice to meet new friends. Sending you special wishes for a wonderful New Year I'm looking forward to keeping in touch in 2012.ReplyDelete
Always Wendy
Amy & Emily, thank you so much for the feature! I'm thrilled ... truly ...ReplyDelete
So glad you're back in the swing of the blog thing ...
Thanks sisters for featuring my table and chairs. Ditto on the 'back in the swing non-holiday' feelings, love me some routine! Best wishes for the shop for 2012.ReplyDelete
Thanks so much for hosting! I hope you have a great week!ReplyDelete
Love the painted floor!! That looks fantastic. Thanks for hosting the party. My kids go back to school tomorrow, looking forward to restoring "order in the house"!ReplyDelete
Thank you for hosting. Glad to see you again. Happy New Year.ReplyDelete


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With our house going on the market and coming off the market with an offer with the first showing, we really needed to move fast if we were going to be able to find a house and hopefully move in before our current house closes.
We think we found the house. Our agent is going to write our offer this morning. We just love it (wood floors, sunny, open, HOA, awesome kitchen). And the list goes on and an.
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So here's my top 5 list of the old and new things in the fashion trend so far that I personally feel everyone should come on board with or try:
1. Minimalist heels
No joke they're not the best type of heels to walk in because it's so steep, and a stiletto too! But trust me, you can pretty much pair them with any type of look and it all goes.
Tip: Pick the stilettos if you want to look taller, pick the fat heels if you want to walk a long distance.
2. Shaped skirts/shorts
The infamous Zara 'skort' has pretty much proved that shaped skirts/shorts can uplift your whole look. It's not messy, it's classy.
Tip: Find the shape that suits your body type and width. You need these skirts/shorts to complement your body shape.
I know that this isn't new but crop tops are at a whole new level right now. Wear it with high-waisted shorts or a beautiful structured skirt and voila!
Tip: Topshop is all about the cropped top idea and loads of their cropped singlets are on sale now! If you have an old t-shirt you don't wear anymore, cut it to the desired length and it automatically becomes a new piece in your wardrobe.
4. Go white
Going all white is definitely something I really love doing right now. It completely cleans your whole look out and better yet, you can play around with the texture and shapes to make it look even more stunning.
Tip: There's off-white and there's white. So make sure when you're doing the whole white look that it's in the same tone.
5. Patterns
This has been going on for a while but I feel that over the past years, the pattern 'trend' changes over time and it keeps evolving too. Use patterned pieces to immediately unite your look and at the same time, adding character to a simple black/white top.
Tip: Patterns can sometimes be overwhelming; start with a simple patterned dress and work your way up to outfit sets.
Hope that you find this useful!
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...twas a busy one. Between crocheting, knitting, packaging, writing and shipping - I was pooped. Pooped and loving every minute.
So thanks for all your patience as I'm working as fast as I can to make and ship your orders off to you - lovely kove is en route to Alabama, Switzerland, Ontario and beyond.
Back blogging this week with lots to share...including a trip to Dace's closet.
Hope you had a great fall weekend,
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