It’s nice to read all of your comments.  I’m sorry I haven’t checked out all of your blogs yet.  I will try to comment as much as I can!  Time is hard to find these days.  I’m sure you’d agree!

I’m glad that you are enjoying middle school!  Using calculators in math, having your own blogs, lockers…what fun!  I’ve heard nothing but positive comments from your teachers about you!  Way to go!

Thanks Tim and Matt for offering to come in near the end of the year as guest speakers.  I welcome any of you to come in! We’ll talk more about this closer to May.

I’m off to Bhutan for Monday.  I’m currently taking a break from packing.  Ugh. It’s a chore.  And I”ll probably forget something, too!  I guess that’s what lists are for. Where are you off to?

Have a great rest of your October.  Make sure one of your teachers turns off the lights closer to Halloween and tells ghost stories as well as reads a few ‘Scary Poems for Rotten Kids’.  That’s the best way to spend a Friday afternoon.

Love, Miss B.

Thanks for continuing to visit here.  Do you have a different blog … maybe of your own?

Have your fears from Gr.5 come true now that you’re in Gr.6?  What is your new math program like compared to last year’s Investigations we started on the last term?

I’m hoping a few of you would like to be ‘guest speakers’ towards the end of this year for my Gr.5s this year..you know–to answer questions they have.  What do you think?

Have a great week.  October break is just around the corner!

Miss B.

It’s nice to see you continuing to post on our ‘old’ blog.  As far as visiting the ES library, I think it’s ok if you pop in from time to time, but maybe not make a habit of it, seeing that you’ve got your own great library!

I wanted to invite you to view our new blog for this year’s group of students.  All students in the class have their own blog site.  If you want to check out what students are doing in class and their thoughts on various things, check out our class blog at:     http://inside.isb.ac.th/rm227 You can also be linked with all Gr.5 blogs at the top of the page.

Thanks for visiting!

Miss B.

It has been so nice to be visited by some of you! Keep comin’! I’d love to see each of you at some point.

This blog will still exist and I will write on it from time to time, and I hope you will too.

Have a terrific day!

Love,

Miss B.

Woah…I can’t believe you’re Gr.6 now! My oh my. I bet you’re all very excited, perhaps with a bit of nervousness mixed in. I am still in Canada for 1 more week and then I will fly back to Bangkok with mixed emotions. It’s always hard to say goodbye to loved ones. It doesn’t seem to be getting any easier.

The weather in Canada (Ontario) has been quite cool this year, which is unusual for July. Normally it’s in the high 20’s to low 30’s. We seem to be hovering around 20-25 degrees Celcius the whole month!! I’m wearing my hoodies and jeans more often than I care to!

I hope all of you are doing well and enjoying your July. I hope to see you in the next little while . Don’t forget to pop by sometime!

Take care…oh…and by the way–I bought the entire series of And Then It Happened for the elementary library just for your info.

xoMiss B.

They can also be found on itunes under the title “Students Teaching Students”. How cool is that!

Enjoy,
Miss R. Bulsza

The book “Walk Two Moons” it is mainly about a girl named Sal who’s mom disappeared. Also, a girl named Phoebe’s mom disappeared. Phoebe’s mom comes back to Phoebe though but Sal’s mom does not. One night when Gram was in the hospital from a snake bite, Gramps sent Sal off in a car to drive around and do stuff while he stayed at the hospital with his wife. At around midnight, Sal was at a cliff driving around it until the cops caught her. She was listening to a story about a bus wreck that had gone over the cliff. Then the cops told her that her mom had been in that bus accident and had not lived. There was only one surviver and that was someone she knew. Then they told her that the surviver had been holding her mom’s hand and had been the last one with her.

Some of my thinking on this book is One of the ideas I thought of is when Sal keeps thinking of her mother and imagining she will come back. My thinking on that is that Sal must not be giving up on her mom.I think she is still hoping her mother will come back some day and Sal will finally become happy.

Another one of my thinking is that when Gram got bitten by the snake and she was hurt really badly and had to go to the doctor, that must make Sal really sad because her mother is gone and missing and now her Grandmother has just been bitten by a snake and has found out she has to go to the hospital to try to live. That must be the worst part in Sal’s life because as far as she knows 2 of her closer family members a re about to die.

One more of my thinkings was when Phoebe kept receiving messeges at her doorstep by a stranger and the messeges include random things like Never judge a man ntil you’ve walked two moons in his moccasins. I would be a little bit freaked out because if someone is leaving mysterious messeges at your door and you don’t know who is leaving them, that would be kind of scary.

I think the social issue of this book is loss, and death. I think these are the only ones because Sal’s mom was a HUGE loss to Sal and for most of the time she was a death because of the bus crash she was in. Also, Phoebe’s mom was a loss to Phoebe and a little to Sal because she wasn’t with Phoebe anymore and so Phoebe always had something missing to her. That part would be her mom. However Phoebe had her mother come back. So those are the social issues in the book that stuck out to me.

I think Walk Two Moons was an interesting book to read.

Hatchet is a story about a boy named Brian who survied a plane crash. He  ends up all alone in a island in need of food, water, and shelter. All he has for protection is a hatchet. Brian has to be brave to survive by himself. I liked how the author narrated the plane crash. It created a movie in my mind, it was like i was there when it happened. Also, I liked how the author described how Brian faced hard problems, for example when he tells the times Brian was starving. I think the ending could have been better. It  was expected that he will  get rescued at the end of the book.  I think the social issue in the book is survival and loneliness. The story makes me think it is  hard to live alone with no one to look after you, especially if you are a child. I recommend this book to everyone because I enjoyed reading it.

While No One Was Watching is a story of 3 kids who have to be taken care of by their aunt while their dad goes away for the summer. But when their aunt disappered one night the 3 kids have to take care of each other. They are alone; they need money and food. This was a  story filled with suspense. One of the things I liked is that each chapter was from a different character’s point of view but they told the same story. I also liked how the author describes how worried and scared the kids were. I think the social issue in this book is loneliness and survival. People should read this book because it shows that this can happen in the world. Sometimes it does not matter how old you are you can still feel lonely. Also when you are lonely and have to survive you may end up doing things that you would never do and are dangerous. For example stealing.I enjoyed reading this book.