Skating Trip Fun!!

What a great trip we had today!!!  It was awesome to see advanced skaters helping beginner skaters.  It was equally nice to see beginner skaters who were holding onto the boards for dear life when they first began the day, to actually skating around toward the end.  The kids had a blast, we had a blast and we had countless great feedback from people at the rink!!  Here are some pics from the day!

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Fun-O-Ween

You may have heard, our 6th graders took the lead in making Halloween extra special  for the kindergarten and 1/2 grade students.  Students developed stations to lead their little buddies to.  Stations were a game of graveyard, musical chairs, pin the wart on the witch, stick your hand in the creepy mixture, pumpkin bowling and several others.  The younger students had a blast and the 6th graders did too!!  Great community building activity and these 6th graders ROCKED!!!!  Here are some pics!

Helping In The Kindergarten: Pumpkin Carving

We helped the kindergarten carve pumpkins today.  The little kids made the faces on the pumpkins and we carved them out for them.  Here are some pictures below:   (By the way, our kids were AWESOME with the little kids!!!)

Author's Visit the Eclipse Team

We were lucky enough to have Hinesburg author, Chris Tebbetts and Chalotte author, Joe Nusbaum visit our team today.  Both authors are promoting new books.  As a team, we just finished Tebbetts book that he cowrote with James Patterson, Middle School, The Worst Years of My Life.  Chris came into HCS a few years ago to do research for the book.  The students asked some great questions.  Both authors will be at the Brown Dog Book Store in town on Saturday at 3:00 to answer more questions and sign books. 

A Few More Videos

Learning More About China

Tao came in again today to teach us some basic Chinese language.  Students practiced basic phrases and how to count 1 -10.  Below are some videos of the students speaking.

Chinese High School Schedule

Our guest teacher, Tao shared with us her high school schedule.
Students begin their day at 7:00am.  They have 40 minute classes with 10 minutes between classes.  Students have a lunch break from 12:10-2:10.  From 7:00-7:30pm they have a dinner break and then back to class until 9:00pm when they go home.  WOW, you should have seen the students when she spoke of this schedule!!  Below are some pictures: