Future Bloggers

The students in my middle school Language Arts class have been working on their blogs. Be on the lookout for blogs on gaming, music and small woodland creatures.

Valentine's Day Cupcakes

Our Culinary Class had a fun time making colorful, creative cupcakes for Valentine's Day. We made the Fluffy White Frosting recipe that can be found on our website. This frosting has a high sheen to it and is great for decorating. Some kids felt cheated that the frosting didn't have butter in it, but for the dairy intolerant people in the group, we loved it!

Sausage Bread that Rocks!

This week we made sausage bread from an old Italian family recipe of Mrs. Cecil's. It came out fabulous and the kids loved it! We also focused this week on happiness and what makes us happy and thankful. We all came up with gratitude lists that we can refer to when we get a little down or negative. Some of the students chose to swim this week at the Sports and Fitness Center and others played basketball. We are all working diligently on our community service project of making wands and septres for the Ronald McDonald House in Burlington. We  hope that we may be able to offer the sick children a moment of magic and maybe a smile.

In Language Arts students are working on personal narratives. Some are focusing on life stories and have even expressed interest in getting them published. Way to go! Science will continue next week with some experiments on magnetism and electricity. Students are also learning about the U.S. government and how it all works. Monday will be cupcake day in honor of St. Valentine.  

Week #14 in Review

Review of Yummy, Ummy Foods

This week we made two really yummy desserts. On Tuesday we made a Delicious Mocha Dessert that Jason picked out, It had coffee flavored pudding topped with brownies and heath bar crunchys and a bunch of whipped cream. On Thursday Austin Made some really yummy Peppermint bark. One of our student invited a guess to come and visit. we watched two movies and played pictionary. it was lots of fun.

Review of Yummy, Ummy Food

Week 11 in Review...

Last week was so long ago. All I can remember is watching Alice in Wonderland on Friday. Alice Wonderland is a movie about a girl named Alice who falls asleep and she dreams about a bunny running around saying I'm late, I'm late, I'm late. She follows the bunny/rabbit down the bunny hole. As she falls down the bunny hole, she passes through a log, and as she gets to the bottom, she catches her feet on a pole and hangs upside down. In front of her she sees the white rabbit running away. He goes through a door, many doors, getting smaller & smaller & smaller. The last door brings her into a huge room, and she hears a door slam in front of her and she tries to open the door and the door goes ouchhhhhhhhhhhhh. The door knob was his nose! Alice changes sizes many times. Until she shrinks small enough to fit through the key hole.

Sarah's favorite part of the movie was when Alice meets the Chesire Cat. I like this part because the cat messes with Alice's mind...by playing mind games.

Austin's favorite part of the movie was when tweetle dee & tweetle dumb when they were telling Alice the story.

Jason's favorite part of the movie was when the mad Hatter freaks out about the tea party.

We can't wait to watch another movie!

Another highlight of last week was was Austin cooked the yummy yummy baked potato skins. They were potatoes that we baked, then halved. Austin scooped the potato out of the skin, filled the skin with cheese & bacon. Sour cream was available for those who wanted it.