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Abbie Reporter-December 10th, 2010

Today was a cold and cloudy winter day, yet it was plenty exciting for us MooLines. During the day we had a morning meeting, round 3 and day 1 of 30 time, math, and we watched a video about the Separatists and their journey to America on the Mayflower. I must tell you of what astonishing activities we did today!!! The first thing on our agenda this day was gathering together for a morning meeting. My class did shout outs to each other. Daphne, Bella, Vincent, and Arnold gave shout outs this morning. We also got our first football letter reply from the Detroit Lions. In class we are learning about our football teams you may have heard about in previous reports, and everyone wrote a business letter to their teams. Lexa was the one to receive the first letter from the team. After Lexa opened her letter, shared what the Detroit Lions letter said, and showed us her souvenirs Mrs. Moline gave us all 4 pieces of candy corn. Yay for candy corn and our wonderful teacher Mrs. Moline!!! What an excellent morning meeting. Next we did day 1 of round 3 in 30 time. My group started podcasts this week. The first part of the task was to listen to previous podcasts. We (the purple group) listened to 3 of them and then started planning on what we would talk about and who would talk them. 30 time is all about doing different activities and practicing subjects individually or in a group for 30 minutes. It can be very enjoyable. Later we did math with football. In the beginning of math today we corrected Ace math homework problems 22-25. We have recently been working on area and perimeter of triangles and have gotten pretty good at finding them. Then we made mathematical questions based on football standings, we had to include mean, median, and range. After that we made predictions for the upcoming football games based on the standings. Math is very interesting and complicated but it is quite entertaining and useful. At the end of the day we began to learn about the Mayflower adventure more deeply than in previous years when we were celebrating Thanksgiving. Today we were actually learning for social studies purpose. We MooLines began to watch a video about the Separatists and their journey to freedom. We took notes on it and will be watching the rest on Monday. The video explained that Separatists were people who had a religion different than King James 1 who liked passive obedience and his religion only. We also found out a little about William Bradford who liked theology (study of God). I think that social studies can be an incredibly amazing and exciting subject. What a marvelous Friday it was!!! Do have a flabbergasting day!!!