Day 7

[contributed by Elena, with some added quotations by Prof MAP]

Today was yet another great day at the magic school. We made a lot of decisions and got a good look at all the great ideas everyone came up with in the past week or so.

This morning we started our day in the computer room. We all listened to Josh's gospel CD that contained the ever famous "Joshua fought the battle of Jericho" song.

After we left the computer lab, we returned to the home room to have another acting class. During this particular class, we were broken up into two groups, the listeners/actors, and the story tellers. The story tellers had to tell the actors a story about something they did this summer, while the listeners observed their body action and the way they talked, then went to the front of the room and tried to tell the story the exact way it was told to them.

Then we worked on character development where each person thought of a character and then got in front of the class and acted as if they were that character and introduced themselves. Everyone enjoyed Crissy's "random bursts of energy", Gabe's story about "burning monkeys", Josh's deep dark voice, Tom's crazy crossed-eyed face, Christina's love of the moonlight, Andrew's silly falling and tripping, Jasmine's shiny gold dress, Pete's outrageous costume, Ben's hearing disorder, and Mike's "shadowy" personality (editor’s note: Elena left herself out here – is this fair?).

After that we made a decision about the sorting ceremony. We decided to use the invisible ink to reveal a symbol, and that will tell the child what house he or she is in.

We then went over to Tolentine, split up into groups and discussed how we were going to incorporate what we learned into the classes. Then we all went to a presentation room and presented the class with what our group thought up. Everyone had great ideas!

Finally it was time for lunch! Tacos again and chicken marsala (: mmm mmm good. We talked about different ways to go about eh sorting ceremony. It was entertaining to watch Gabe pile a huge mound of food onto his plate, and then realizing he only had four minutes to eat it all!

After lunch we took a trip to the library and went into a room where the students aren't allowed to go. It was a giant room with all kinds of old books and journals. Some people took an extremely old elevator down to the lower level, but some of us, like myself decided to take the good old stairs instead of trusting the rickety elevator.

When we got back from the library some of us went to the chem. lab and others decided to visit the physics room to test out all our ideas. In the chem lab everyone was having a good time making goo, popping bubbles filled with steam, changing the color of a penny, and looking at the colors of the universal indicator, it was great!
And then we came to the end of the day, now we are all in the computer lab reflecting on the events of today!

Some people did not like the way we voted for the ideas to include in our magic lessons. Here are some comments from the message board:

“I'm don't like the voting system. i think we should first decide what the classes will be, then fit the ideas to the classes.”

“FIGHT THE POWER!!!!”

The “POWER” are taking these comments into consideration. On the other hand, some felt that:

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… so, go figure! A few more comments from today:

“Today i had soo much fun thinking of ideas for our lessons. I believe that everyone did a great job and put in input!!”

“…we went to the library and saw some books that dated back to 800 AD!!!!!!!”

“Today we made lots of decisions about what will be in the magic school. It looks like everything is going to come out pretty well...”

“Today was fun and everyone is hard at work. I think this will go great. Every body will have a great old time with this. I hope I get the Magic Muggle class because I think that I will do a great job.”

”Today was great. We had theatre. chem, physics, and we have been brainstorming a lot today. It's a pretty good time. I hope I can come back next year.”