Tales of Adventure!

It has been requested (thanks, postman!!!) that I might set up a place for you to share some of the excitement going on at school these days. Many of you have been involved in special trips, events, programs, camps, etc. etc.
So.....what's up everyone??? We'd love to hear your 'tales of adventure'........

All the difference ....

The Road Not Taken
By Robert Frost

Two Roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry that I could not travel both
And be one traveller, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less travelled by,
And that has made all the difference.

Summer reading.....

A great place to review and recommend BOOKS!!

Titles, authors, synopses, ratings, etc. etc.

Long lazy summer days are coming....

Recommended Viewing......

A great place to review and recommend movies!

Give us a brief summary, your personal rating, and make a suggestion about preferred audience. e.g. "for those who love historical fiction / action movies, etc.

I can hardly wait to read these!

Bored????

To the Wed. Gr. 7-8 class......

If you took the initiative to try out your proposal for 'extra challenge' to a teacher at your home school, please share your experiences here. Although I would like to hear both positive and negative 'stories', I will remind you to please exercise diplomacy here - no teachers' names nor any comment that could be interpreted as hurtful should be included. I'll thank you in advance for this professionalism. As always, I look forward to your comments!

Message from Rwanda

On my summer reading list is a new book by Barbara Coloroso entitled "Just because it's not wrong doesn't make it right: from toddlers to teens, teaching kids to think and act ethically". I was flipping through it yesterday and was drawn to a short story right at the beginning of the book. It included a quote by Paul Kagame, President of Rwanda, which stood out to me after having recently seen (and loved!) the movie Hotel Rwanda. The quote struck me also because of the 'nature/nurture' discussion initiated in the blog last week. I wonder what you think of it .....

"People can be made bad, and they can be taught to be good."

- PRESIDENT PAUL KAGAME, WHO AS GENERAL
OF THE RWANDAN PATRIOTIC FRONT (RPF) LED
HIS WELL-DISCIPLINED, RAGTAG ARMY INTO RWANDA
AND DID SOMETHING THE INTERNATIONAL
COMMUNITY HAD FAILED TO DO ONE HUNDRED
DAYS BEFORE - STOPPED THE GENOCIDE