Week 8 : A toast to Halloween and the finest of swine

Class was jam packed with all sorts of goodness.

First off, our class debrief, led by Ethan D., was excellent.  I LOVED hearing all the kudos you gave each other.  You all make a wonderful team.  The Halloween party turned out so well due to quick thinking and fabulous team work!  Now it's time to take what you learned from that experience and apply it to our Christmas party!!  Woohoo!!  And one last thing about the party I failed to mention....I loved that Ethan Day covered the bowling pins with fabric to make them look like ghosts!  ADORABLE! 

Thank you for all your hard work.  

Next up, we played a NOT well-known game of headbands to usher in our parliamentary procedure prep.  I hope those new vocab words will become commonplace terms to you in the weeks to come.

And finally, we channeled the members of the Lucky Clovers 4-H club and learned how a meeting using parliamentary procedure should look.

NEXT WEEK, we will run our own meeting using parliamentary procedure.  Paige will be our president and she will have a gavel, so don't cross her!!!

HOMEWORK:

1) Prepare for  your role in the parliamentary procedure simulation next week!  Ideally you will write a script for yourself based off the Lucky Clovers script.  You all play an important part in our simulation and Mrs. Schmieder will reward you with something delicious for being prepared and AMAZING.  Please don't be crazy!! (on purpose)

2) You ALL will present a proposal for the Christmas party.  You don't have to bring an idea for decor, refreshments, communications, AND activities.  You can just bring one brilliant idea.  Example:  For the party activity, all the students should massage the mentors' feet while singing Christmas carols.

DON'T FORGET YOU ARE ALL ON THE CHRISTMAS PARTY COMMITTEE....YOU MUST PROPOSE SOMETHING!!

3)  Track those volunteer hours.  If you put in 100% effort to the Halloween party, feel free to write 2 hours of volunteer work.

4) Spencer, you have our Leader in the News.

Here is the schedule for the remaining Leader in the News presentations:

November 9 - Spencer

November 16 - Ethan Day

November 23 - Thanksgiving (but Gabe wanted to sign up for this day, so he can do one at home.)

November 30 - Taylor

December 7 - Ethan Hellyer

December 14 - Paige 

January 11 - Noah

If you have questions regarding your part for the simulation, PLEASE email me!!  We want this to go as smoothly as possible.  It will definitely be okay to mess up because we are all learning.  But PLEASE do your prep work!

Thank you!!!  Message adjourned!