Earth...I Like the Way You Move!

Students today were challenged to redefine how they view our planet earth.  It is actually a tiny object in a vast universe.   We learned that earth is perfectly placed 93 million miles from the sun.  This distance creates the ideal conditions for life here on our planet.  Students were given the analogy of sitting around a campfire, too close and its too hot, too far away and it is too cold. The same goes for our planet's relationship to the sun! I challenged the students to think of our earth as a body in motion. It moves in two ways. It revolves around the sun and rotates on it's axis! Each student was challenged to think about how the way earth moves impacts their life by giving us days and nights as well as impacts the seasons of the year.  Earth...we like the way you move!

Patriotism Essay

Our students just recently completed an exercise of the writing process that asked them to discover what patriotism really meant to them. Students were challenged to figure out they can best show patriotism in their community and to reflect on great patriots of the past.  This essay will be submitted to the VFW's national Patriot's Pen Essay competition and a local winner will be read at our Veterans Day assembly in November.