March 26, 2007

5th Day With Explorer Elementary:
Today, we painted shoes for an organization called shoes of hope. Those shoes are going to be sent out to the children suffering in Uganda.

Art With Ms. Tish:
Ms. Tish showed the class a video, then we had to make a collage that is a response to what we saw in the video. The meaning of this video was that we have the power to make a difference in the world. After that, we wrote a poem about our collage. I liked when we got to make the collages out of images from magazines. The most challenging part was writing the poem. If I were the teacher, I would have shown a different video. This is because it was difficult to figure out what the meaning of the video was.

Uganda Discussion:
Mrs. Borden handed out to everybody a piece of paper that explained the war that is going on in Uganda. We had to write five or more statements that started with; I feel.
These were my statements:
1. I feel thankful for everything that I have.
2. I feel I feel sad for the people (adults and children) that are being tortured in such an inhumane way.
3. I feel guilty that i am not doing anything to help what is going on there.
4. I feel disappointed with the people that are doing those horrible things to the Ugandans.
5. I feel that what is going on in Uganda is unjustice.
6. I feel ashamed that i am always asking for more and more of things that I don't need but i want, when people in Uganda barely even have the basic needs of living.

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Today, we also finished scetching out our designs onto our murals. Both the fairy tale themed mural, and the Harry Potter mural.