ALL DAY READING EVENT!
Calling all lovers of Reading! Time to celebrate our first All Day Reading Day this Monday, November 19. We are doing this in conjunction with Illinois’ Family Reading Night. Family Reading Night is a statewide event when families are encouraged to spend quality time reading together. We thought we would start the ball rolling with an all day reading event at school, and then we will hand off the baton to the parents who can continue the reading well into the evening. There will be no homework (for most), because the students will be reading in every class. We are encouraging the students to bring bean bags, big comfy pillows and appropriate pajama pants (they still need to wear their logo shirts). Happy reading!
Mr.K I am not going to be at school on monday in the morning because im getting my braces taken off. I will probablly be at school after lunch.
Mr.k will we have to turn our reading logs in or can we use our minutes that day and turn it in on tuesday.
Mr.K, its NEVER to early to start celebrating christmas!
Dear Kelly,
You are absolutely right, but my question for you is what kind of celebrating are we doing?
Mr. K
Perhaps we know more about the world than we used to, and insofar as knowledge is prerequisite to understanding, that is all to the good. But knowledge is not as much a prerequisite to understanding as is commonly supposed. We do not have to know everything about something in order to understand it; too many facts are often as much of an obstacle to understanding as too few. There is a sense in which we moderns and (post moderns) are inundated with facts to the detriment of understanding.
One of the reasons for this situation is that the very media we have mentioned are so designed as to make thinking seem unnecessary (though this is only an appearance). The packaging of intellectual positions and views is one of the most active enterprises of some of the best minds of our day. The viewer of television and U-tube, the listener to radio – pod casts – and streaming video casts, the reader of magazines, is presented with a whole complex of elements – all the way from ingenious rhetoric to carefully selected data and statistics – to make it easy for him to “make up his own mind” with the minimum of difficulty and effort. But the packaging is often done so effectively that the viewer, listener, or reader does not make up his own mind at all. Instead, he inserts a packaged opinion into his mind, somewhat like inserting a cassette into a cassette player. He then pushes a button and “plays back” the opinion whenever it seems appropriate to do so. He has performed acceptably without having had to think.
Does it mean sometimes you do not thin of what you are doing?
we should have another reading day.