G5 Life

Happy New Year G5!

Another year has gone by and  I look forward to 2013! I wish all your families a healthy, wonderful, and prosperous New Year!  What are your plans for the New Year?

"Cheers to a New Year and another chance for us to get it right." ~Oprah

One of my faves...

Can you guess the dish... Its one of my favorites during the holiday. Yum yum!

G5 T.V. "Holiday Edition"

Oh... I finally got to this.  I've been sick since the 22nd and I'm finally starting to feel almost 100%.    Anyways, I hope all of you are enjoying your break and are healthy!  TTFN...

 

G5 Sends Messages of Compassion

 

Great job G5!!  This is the news story from KOMO 4 News.

From Ms. Stover

Amidst the heartache and grieving these past few days, I think that there are many lessons to come out of this horrific tragedy.  While all of us process and grieve in our own ways, I think we all feel like in some small way we want to help. 

This afternoon, I was contacted by a dear friend of mine who is a high school Social Studies teacher in Bethel, Connecticut.  My friend Katie and I traveled to Turkey this past summer together and she is an absolute gem.  Just eight miles down the road, her town Bethel, is grieving immensely.  When word of this unfortunate event hit last Friday, my immediate reaction was to try to contact her.  I received a text message back quickly, assuring me they were fine, but that they had been in lockdown for most of the day.

In an effort to help their neighboring community of Newtown, the teachers at Katie’s school in Bethel are organizing an effort to make paper cranes for the grieving families in Connecticut.  Originally their idea was to make 1,000 cranes to put at the memorial, but then realized it would be much more special to give each of the grieving families a chain of 1,000 cranes.  This will total to a need of 26,000 cranes. 

Guess what we’re starting tomorrow, class?  Yes, you guessed it–paper crane making to help ease the pain of those who are so hurt and whose lives are shattered because of the loss of a loved one.  We are going to help.  We are going to contribute to the 26,000 needed paper cranes, we may not create all 26,000, but we’re going to try.  Here’s the tricky part…we only have until Friday at 2:25pm, so that I can ship them off to Katie in Connecticut on Friday afternoon.  Are you ready for the challenge?  I know you can do it!  I will have supplies tomorrow and for those who know how to make the cranes, I will rely upon you to help others.  This is a time of compassion and learning how we can all work together to change the world.

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Mr. W, Naiyyra, Kelsey, Alayna, and others in the parking lot took a moment of silence for 12 seconds at exactly 12:12pm 12 seconds, on 12-12-12. Never again in our life time.

G5 T.V. "Beechers"

The G5 learned how to be food detectives by learning how to read food labels.  They also discussed how to make good food choices and made a vegitarian chilli using all whole food ingredients.  

 

G5 T.V. "Old Yeller"

 

Student Book Reviews

G5 T.V. Weekly Brief