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Lexa October 19, 2010

Today, October 19, 2010, a sunny slightly overcast day we were mightily busy in class. First of all we had a desk change. It was a random draw meaning that there was a bucket and there were also colored cards in the bucket, one for each of us: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple. Mrs. Moline came around with the red bucket and we stuck our hands in there and drew out a colored card. Most of us were lucky and got in the same table group with our friends. Some of us not so much, for example Lily, the poor girl, got seated at the same table (yellow) WITH A BUNCH OF BOYS! For Jacob it was just the opposite, he got seated at the red table with a bunch of girls (including me)! I am happy with my new table group (Nicole, Lydia and Jacob) and I think we can work well together. At our new desks as a group we did a math game that involved a super cool dice with nine sides that was clear and big and inside that dice there was another super cool dice that also had nine sides. Here is how the game goes: as a group we had to decide if we were going to use the inside dice or the outside dice. Each person got to start with one hundred points. Then we took turns rolling the dice and we (in my group) subtracted the number on the outside of the dice from our hundred points. The object of the game is to have the least amount of points but not below zero in six or seven turns. Let’s say I rolled an eight on my first turn. I would have to make a choice; one hundred minus eighty or one hundred minus eight. I would choose one hundred minus eighty because in the long shot you could be closer to zero and then you would only subtract one’s numbers instead of ten’s numbers. If you went below zero you got out. Next we got to start our timeline posters. We got a piece of little white paper and started our timeline events. On the piece of paper that we had glued into our log the day before had stars next to the information that Mrs. Moline wanted on our posters, including birth, death, name, known for, an illustration and more. I think that my poster looks super awesome so far. My poster is about Noah Webster the man who compiled the Webster dictionary. He also came out with one of his own dictionaries that had over twenty thousand words and forty thousand definitions never before seen in a dictionary! What a smart man!! I’ve finished with the pencil part and the fine lining over that. I wrote some of the really important facts in thin colored marker. I also have colored the illustration. I hope I can find out many other interesting facts about different people because of all the great work I know you guys have done! After that the class did something really exciting! Yellow and Blue were tied for second place in the group points (with twenty points each) so we had to do a tie breaker. We all got back in our old groups to do the tie breaker (long time no see!). My group, the orange group won by a long shot over everybody so we (Molly, Vincent, Lexa and Simon) each got a pumpkin turn. Go orange!! But in the end Blue won the tie breaker so Red was in first Blue was in second and Yellow was in third (orange was in fourth thanks to Simon!!). Congratulations to everybody! You all did a terrific job! Then we had music. CHOICE DAY PEOPLE! As usual there were the options foosball, limbo, bop-it and helping. I went to foosball like most people, because I again felt like controlling little people on a stick! Sadly my team (Marissa and I ) rarely won the short game of game of three points because I did not do so well at the back rows L. The most victorious team playing foosball was either Crystal and Nicole or Simon and Vincent. Congrats to them! That was today, October 19, 2010. Weren’t we super duper busy? I can’t take it all in!! Let me r view. First we changed desks. Next we played a math game with our new table groups. Then we got to start our timeline posters. After that we did a tie breaker for groups Yellow and Blue. Finally, we had music. What an awesome day we had today!