Chapter Summary

I am reading a book titled, Report to the Principles Office. The author who wrote this book is Jerry Spinelli. One of the main characters of this book is Eddie. Eddie is a 6th grader who is going to his first day of Middle School. He is scared about going to the new school and does not know what to will happen. One of his friends from elementary school warned him to stay away from 8th graders, so he is worried about that too. Another main character is the principle of the Middle school. His name is Mr. Brimlow. He is new to this middle school too and is worried that the kids will not like him. Mr. Brimlow’s plan is to learn the name of every kid in the school.

In the chapter that I read, Eddie can not find the classroom that he is supposed to be in on the first day of school. He asked a boy for help who just happens to be a bully (an eighth grader). Eddie asks the boy where a certain classroom was and the boy leads him to a boiler room with pipes instead of the science room. Eddie is really scared now, but finds his way out of the boiler room. The principle finds him wandering around the hall and takes him to the principle’s office. Mr. Brimlow surprises Eddie by knowing his name and being nice to him. Mr. Brimlow invites Eddie to come back to the office later for lunch and shows him to the right classroom.

I learned that it is a good idea to know where I am supposed to be. Eddie should have gone to the orientation or something so he would know his way around the building. Based on what has happened so far, I think Eddie will be afraid to ask anyone else for help and will keep getting lost at school. He will probably get teased again by the eighth grade boy in the hall until he learns his schedule. Hopefully he will find a friend that will help him.

Jeffrey

Jordan's Poem " My Doll"

I like to play with Bratz dolls,

I like to comb their hair.

I dress them in their fancy clothes

And sit them in their chair.

The Gift of Giving

Giving means you care about people and you don’t care if they did anything for you first. You should love them and that is what it is all about. We should give to people that need help and not do mean things. When you are feeding people that means you are doing what God wants you to do.

This Christmas my family worked at the food bank at our church. When I was filling the orders and giving food to people in the food bank, I felt really proud. When I was giving food to the children it made me feel like I was doing the right thing and they were very happy with what they got. I mostly feel happy because they would have food during Christmas.

This Christmas we ‘adopted’ a family. This means that we picked a family and sent their four children gifts and we sent the parents gifts too. We tried to be friends with them and love the family and did not want to leave them. It was a nice and I hope they had a good Christmas. They were so nice that after Christmas they sent us some Christmas cookies and we really enjoyed them. That is what the gift of giving means to me.

by: Jordan Rose

The gift of giving means to have a spirit of giving to other people. I had the gift of giving to the poor. I am helping my community and my neighborhood. I can give my spirit to the Lord and he guides me to help others as my mom says I should do everything with “Joy”; Jesus, Others, Yourself.

Last December I went to the church behind me and helped feed 14 families. It was fun for me to help other families. What we did was to put food orders together for a program called Food Movers. They faxed orders to the church and then we filled boxes for the families. We had families that had single adults to families with infants and up to seven kids. The adults came in, showed I.D. and then filled out a sheet letting us know that they came. Then we gave them their food.

I also had a chance to bless a family with Christmas presents and blessed them so deeply that the family almost cried. In my mind I was thinking “I’m glad we did this for them”. I love blessing other kids and families in need. I think it’s a calling for me. I am glad I gave gifts to the family … it touched me a lot.

by Jeffrey

Happy New Year

Happy New Year to friends and family. I am, as always, amazed at how time flies. And what a great way to start the year out with digging ourselves out of several inches of snow.

How did you celebrate the new year?

Christmas

We had another Great Christmas!!! We are so truly blessed. The children started their Christmas break with volunteering at the local food bank. They had so much fun that we have decided to do it monthly. We also 'adopted' a local family for which we provided gifts for their 4 children. That was a blessing as well. Christmas morning was very nice. We sang "Happy Birthday" to Jesus and then passed out loads and loads of gifts. The children were happy. We had most of our family here (Poppy did not make it this year), good food and good laughs. We hope you all had a excellent day and wish you the best for the new year.

Stepping Into A New Phase

Well...we've gone and done it! We are going to try to host our own blog. The purpose is to share information with our friends and family, but most of all to give our students more experience in writing, publishing and improving their communication skills. As this is our first time "doing" a blog, the organization may be lacking... but we are quick studies. LOL!

Enjoy and give us lots of feedback.

The Rotties