Seeing Through the Eyes of Jesus.

Today we began with another Bible story about a blind man. We talked about earthly sight... and setting our sight for the eternal landscape. I shared the story of my Grandmother who was disabled because of her lack of sight. But she waited daily for the sun to shine "just right" in the window, so she could read her large-print Bible. I read Father Frank's thoughts about wearing "masks" and tomorrow (after Halloween) the masks will be off. Let us pray to see our world through the eyes of Jesus.

8th grade students were given a scary story starter last week. Today each student read his/her entertaining story. We had a large variety of endings... humorous, strange twists, happy ending, creepy endings. All students were good readers. When I looked over the typed endings, there were quite a few errors. Connor had taken advantage of my offer to read a "rough draft" and his final paper was a solid A. I am trying to get students to understand the value of doing a rough draft and asking someone to look it over. There is no shame to getting support when aiming for high-quality writing.

In Geography 7, we talked about purchasing stocks. This information flowed from students' questions from yesterday. We then talked about how income, jobs, home prices, and education affect how people live... and often where they live. I gave students "play" paychecks to support the recent news that college grads on the average earn $23,000 more each year compared to a non-college grad.

6th grade students will wrap up early farmer unit and then we are off to early Mesopotamia.

Happy Halloween... and good luck to our basketball athletes tonight in their game against Northwestern. May you have safe travel and have the joy of doing your best.