You should go Above and Beyond!

Christmas Song… Love BNL

Merry Christmas!

Somehow very engaging!

Time – that’s what it takes!

Keep this in mind as you do your work as a student. Turn off the cell, shut down facebook and give yourself time to think about how to add creativity to your work!! I’ll remember, too!

Vow of Silence and East Africa Drought

The FSJSS Free the Children club is participating in the Vow of Silence. Watch these videos to get an idea of what this is about.

Watch for Free the Children club members selling Rafiki Bracelets for drought relief for East Africa:

Next campaign – Local Spotlight on Aboriginal Education

Might as well!

We can engage in a variety of activities during our time here together on Earth. We can make the world better. We can make it worse. We can create. We can destroy. We can spend time worrying about things that don’t matter. We can spend time making our lives better. We can get lost in booze, drugs, interpersonal drama. We can choose a life of creativity and peace. Life can happen to us, or we can make a life as we would like it to be.

It amazes me what some creative people spend their time doing. We might as well all be creators of some sort, and help people smile, or think, or grow, or just have fun.  Imagine what a wonderful world…..

Five Grammatical Errors that Make You Look Dumb

Follow this link to read the blog post!

100 Years of East London Style in 100 seconds!

Some cool history. Welcome back to school!! Click on Read more to see the video!

Cute kitten video, but it’s educational

Also, a huge connection for me:

Thinking a lot about our role as adults in the lives of our students and children. Just remember, we are looking after you because you still need us (and we need you), just like this Mama and her kitten! Here’s the link to the National Geographic Website.

From the article:
How old would you guess this kitten is, or how far along in its development?

“It looks pretty young, I’d say two to three weeks, though that’s just a guess. There are three main periods of growing up in a kitten. In the first two weeks, they’re basically just like little milk-sucking maggots; they can’t even open their eyes. In weeks two to seven, their eyes and ears open and they learn to socialize. And after that they’re called juveniles, becoming more independent. So we’re looking at a kitten that I think is in that second phase. The mother still needs to take great care of it because fear, the perception of danger, takes a while to develop. Humans and animals are born literally fearless, and need the parent to watch out for them or they might crawl right off the side of a bed, for example. So a kitten this young can’t stray far from its mother safely, and she keeps it close; draws it in often.” (Emphasis is mine.)