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Family Fun Night

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Family Fun Night This post is about a month overdue as Family Fun Night was February 20th. However, seeing as it is one of my favorite school events, it’s worth telling you about – even if it’s belated. 🙂

Family Fun Night is an annual event at VCS. Different families sign-up to host rooms that represent their country or continent. Each room has different activities meant to teach the visitors a little something about that country. This year we had Czech Republic, South America, Africa, Switzerland, and France. I was adopted by my friend Petra and her mother to be part of the Swiss contingent. (That’s why I have braids like Heidi!)

During the first half of the evening, families visit the various rooms and complete activities for a stamp in their passports. If they get all the stamps, they get a free book from the booksale. During the second half of the evening, different families perform with a variety of talents. This year we had poetry, singing, dancing, and a great skit about the saving grace of Jesus.

I love this night not only because of the cultural richness, but because it is one of the opportunities we have to spend extra time with the parents of our students. There are lots of pictures of this event here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gidgetz/sets

Here’s a video of the Africa club singing “Soon and Very Soon.” Enjoy!

The End of the Season

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Middle School Basketball Basketball season is over. We had such a good time coaching this year. Both the boys’ and the girls’ teams grew so much during the season. My favorite example of this is the sweet girl pictured to the right who was scared to death to even be on the court at the beginning of the season. During our last game, she was on the bench next to me and she looked at Whitney (our head coach) and said, “Miss G. sub me in! I will box-out all those ladies!” It was fantastic.

VCS News Network Episode 4

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I’ve already shared Episodes 1, 2 and 3 with you. There are two more that have not yet been released because they exceeded the 10 minute Youtube threshold. We’re now set up on blip.tv at http://vcsvids.blip.tv/. You can go there to watch all of our past videos and check back for videos soon to come.

If you’d like to sign up for the rss feed, the url is here: http://vcsvids.blip.tv/rss

Without further ado: VCSNN episode 4!

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Videography: VCS Punishment Corps

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The current project my videography class is working on is:

  • Find a 30-60 second commercial on Youtube.
  • Use this video as a template for your own commercial.

The first one is based on the Reebok commercial: Terry Tate, Office Linebacker.

Below is the original followed by remake. Enjoy!

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRkiouh5NEI

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DNKIsgH4c0

Yay for Teamwork!

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Christmas

This is Liz. Liz is the fifth grade teacher at VCS. She is wise, kind, talented, and one of the most spectacular teachers I’ve ever known. This year I’m appreciating her on a whole new level. We just finished a big cooperative project with her fifth graders. Each fifth grade student wrote a non-fiction book, but we published them using Power Point. That’s right – a completely digital project. I had a great time working with Liz on this project and I am so proud of the work the students did. I especially appreciate that Liz has been so willing to work with me on making technology something that is truly integrated with her curriculum. This is what being the computer teacher is all about!

This picture is from Liz’s birthday. I bought her a Lebkuchen (gingerbread) Herz that says, “Du bist echt cool!” (You are really cool!) It’s true. She is really cool. 🙂