Nicole-Daily+Report-November10

__November 10,2010 Reporter: Nicole__ Today was a fantastic day! It wasn’t like a normal day because we had our Band/Orchestra, and an Assembly (was the most fun in my opinion).Also, it was Daphne’s half birthday! Happy half birthday, Daphne! The weather today was pretty typical for a fall day, the sun was out, but it was cloudy and a bit cold. Of course, in the morning Joe, Bella, and Christopher did the daily doings. Here is something from the daily doings board (did you know fact): In Alaska, it was illegal to look at a moose from a flying vehicle…weird right? Well, time to move on. First of all, I’m not in Orchestra so, sorry but I don’t know what they did. I’m in Band and I play the clarinet (Go clarinets!). In Band, we put our instruments together and practiced on them (Like always). After we were done, Mr. Allison told us to play Hot Cross Buns, Au Claire de la Lune, Jingle Bells, and Better than the rest. We played those songs many times, and Mr. Allison taught us Italian words for the speed of songs, these are the words and definitions: //Vivace/Presto: really fast, Allegro: fast, Moderato: normal speed, Andante: walking pace, Adegio: slow, and Lento: really slow .//Then//,// Mr. Allison had a surprise, long tone contests! Long tone is when everyone who plays the same instruments stands up. Then, Mr. Allison does group by group and tells them to play a note we learned at the same time. When you run out of breath, you sit down. The person who stays the longest gets a candy. The winners were: David (trumpets), Hannah (flutes), Nicky (clarinets), and Daniel/Joe (trombones). Congratulations to them! By the way, Band/Orchestra was from 9:05 to 9:50. After us musicians settled down in class, we had math at 10:00. Ms. Moline gave us a mind grinding math test, football math, and football predictions for the coming games. Ms. Moline told us we had to do it in the order I just showed you for some reason. It was not a problem for anyone though. Today, we did predictions differently. Instead of using data and just predicting, we used the data and used certain pieces of data as points and the team with the most points is probably the predicted winner. When we were done with math we did social studies while we waited for others to finish. In social studies we continued from yesterday which was find 6 main ideas and some questions. That was done from about 12:00 to 12:25 (Lunch). After lunch, we went to an assembly at 1:30. The cool thing was the assembly was specially for Veterans day! (Hooray for veterans!) Our school was lucky and we got 7 veterans to come! During the assembly, the Terrace Park Choir sang the Star Spangled Banner, Mrs. Erickson and Mrs. Haasl read some poems students wrote about veterans, Mrs. Elder and Mr. Hagen presented a plaque to a veteran, Mr. Hagen interviewed 2 veterans, we watched a video Mr. Goodwin filmed, and listened to Jonathan Pugh play “Battle Hym of the Republic” and “Taps”. The assembly ended at about 2:20. After the assembly, Mrs. Graham brought us to music. By the time we got there, we only had a few minutes left of music, so we played drums in groups. Also, we had to reschedule our Jam session to Tuesday,11/16. In my opinion, the assembly was the most fun because there were lots of exciting things in it. Thanks for reading this!!