Beautiful Creatures, Cross-country, and Paper Clips

This week, the caterpillars in the elementary classes caterpillars made their cocoons or chrysalis. The caterpillars will be in their cocoons for about another week and then the elementary students will have butterflies hanging out in the classroom.

The cocoons

The mesh container
There are some interesting books this year such as Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Another student and I having been going through our Battle Book list pretty quickly. Margaret Stohl. Another book is Little Brother by Scott Westerfeld. We will soon be spending time studying what authors wrote what books. In the competition, getting the book right gets five points and getting the right author gives you another three points. All together we can earn eight points.
Cross-country is approaching very quickly. We leave for the meet on the 14^th and come back the 17^th.  We have been running everyday, so I think we will do well. Many other schools from our district are going to compete, too. I will make sure to take lots of picture because I know everybody loves pictures! Our school counselor, Kasie Pletcher, is coaching us this year and she will be going with us to the meet.

We watched a movie yesterday called Paper Clips, which was about how this one school studied the Holocaust and they wanted to see what 6 million of something looked like. They decided to collect paper clips. The paper clips represented the 6 million Jews that the Nazis killed. Another significant reason they used paper clips was that the Norwegians used to wear paper clips on their lapels during World War II to silently protest against the Nazis. The movie took place in a small town, called Whitwell. It was a very good movie, in my opinion. 

We all have been working hard in school and been making this year very fun.