Funny Bloopers & Possible Project

Have fun figuring out why these bloopers are funny.......

I have an idea. What if we start collecting our own mistakes and start recording them? If we have enough by the end of the year we can write a mini-book and self-publish it.

We'll need people with varying talents:
- those who are organized enough to collect and record unintentional mistakes,

- some imaginative people to see in their minds what pictures would be funny,

- those with artistic intelligence to draw these pictures and a great cover,

- computer-savvy people who know how or want to learn how to use programs like Paint Shop,

- some willing to learn how to publish a book....etc.

- more computer-savvy Captain Jack Sparrow's to upload documents and images (now do you understand why Captain Jack used "savvy" in the Pirates movies?)

- those with interpersonal intelligence to get everyone working together effectively (which makes you VERY valuable or "marketable" in life after school!)

Oh, and others good enough at spelling to actually realize errors have been made,
and/or a good enough command of our language to see that how words/sentences have been used have taken on an unintentional hilarity.

DREAM BIG! ~ Serena and Summer from last year's class did most of the illustrations for my book, Ten Little Numbers Jumping on the Bed (click on the title to see the book - it's free to download).

These are students who roamed the same room as you are now who are now forever part of a published book. What talents do you have or could have that you can offer to this project?

DO BIG! ~ This is an extra project, meaning you have to be competent enough in the 5th grade benchmarks to free yourself to work on this. Or even better.........be intelligent enough to figure out how to incorporate the benchmarks into the working on this book (intra personal intelligence). Wouldn't that be fun?


What if you could?

Christian Bulletin Bloopers

· Ushers will eat latecomers.

· She sang "I Will Not Pass This Way Again," giving much pleasure to the congregation.

· The patient is having trouble sleeping and requests tapes of Pastor Jack's sermons.

· Smile at someone who is hard to love. Say "hell " to someone who doesn't care much about you.

· A letter to the men’s fellowship reads: "All members are requested to bring their wives and one other covered dish to the annual banquet."

And my personal favorite.......

· Sermon this morning: Jesus Walks on the Water. Sermon tonight: Searching for Jesus.

~ Learning and Laughter should occur at the same time as often as possible ~

Becoming Independent Learners

I know it was only a day, but being back with you guys feels great. I really enjoy teaching you. I like that you can't help giving me a hug first thing, Kenny, even before I can finish saying good morning to Sofia.

My trip to Illinois was one of tremendous learning and growth for me. So to come back and discover all the learning you have done in my absence lets me know you are truly becoming independent learners.

A few shining examples of students DOING MORE than just what I had the sub ask you to do in class yesterday: (from the MATH QUIZ on Friday)




Summer - you created a terrific PowerPoint on the questions you missed. You recognize you are a visual learner and create more elaborate presentations than I do.


I have much to learn from you, Graphics Master, and need to figure out how to get these on the blog.

Mahrukh - you used the internet to find websites that showed you different ways to learn how to do the problems you didn't understand.

You are our webmaster, correctly using the web to surf for learning resources.

You are now.............Spider Girl!


Ryan & Briana - you both used the FCAT Explorer to find similar questions to the ones you missed. This is excellent! I see you as Great Thinkers.



Serena - you used a word document to quiz yourself on the ones you missed. This is exactly what I do to help me learn what I don't know. I had great success becoming fluent in Spanish this way, and now am applying it to Italian. We both go with what works for us.

*Remarkably, you got an "A" on the quiz but still chose to learn the little that you didn't know. You are truly unstoppable by making these kinds of "growth" choices. I can't tell you how excited I am to watch your future unfold for you, because YOU are conciously choosing what you want and taking action to make it happen.



Belle - although you got a poor grade on the quiz I wanted to take the time to discuss your real ability to "do" math. Many times being able to "do" math is confused with being able to memorize algorithms, or ways to answer problems correctly without really understanding the problem at all.



This is dangerous "learning" since in the real world you won't be given a set of ways to memorize to solve the problems you'll encounter. Those that thrive are those that can solve problems that others can't. To do this you have to UNDERSTAND the problem fully.





YOU CAN DO THIS! You were the first one to solve a college level math problem, meaning your brain operates very well at higher levels. This also means you CAN learn the simpler 5th grade problems, and I expect you to!!!!!!


I was proud to see how hard all of you worked today. MALCOLM you were definitely MIGHTY in your determination to solve the problems that challenged you. We worked hard together and fused our minds in coming up with the right answers!

Remember to try to think in terms of place value versus "columns" and you'll understand the problems better.



The classroom really became a learning playground today. It was so enjoyable. I'm going to miss you all next year (sniff, sniff, no.....I'm not crying......someone must be cutting up onions... =:-)

Click here to see all the pictures from today.