thanksgiving.

great thanksgiving lunch guys! 

thank you rachel for organizing.

i loved hearing what everyone was thankful for.

i'm thankful for you!

November birthdays!

Last week we celebrated Caroline, Lily, and Maeve's November birthdays. Kayla was the hostess with the mostess. She brought in a cake and got everyone playing a game that involved guessing facts about each birthday girl.

Thanks Kayla.

Thank You

Thank you Maeve for throwing me and Mariela a birthday celebration in advisory!! It was a lot of fun, I loved the pin the tail on the donkey and the pinyatta. Sorry from breaking the broom Ms. Robberts. I love that are advisory has these parties for everyone it is a lot of fun. I cant wait for the next one!

thank u maeve!!!

ok i just want to thank Maeve for planning the last advisory and taking the time to celebrate mine and Laura's birthday. thank so much we had lots of fun,and i hope we can continue to do things like that in advisory. and again thank u Maeve you're the best!!!

ps. loved the piñata next time lets get one that we can actually break lolz :)

happy birthday mariela and laura.

yesterday maeve hosted a birthday party for mariela and laura.

The Orientation Trip

As you probably already know, part of the junior class trip involves hiking Mt. Monadnock. I've been on this trip before and felt strongly that we should climb it TOGETHER as an advisory group. I thought there was a lot we could learn from the challenge of staying together and working as a small community within the larger class. The girls were skeptical.

I organized some t-shirt making because I thought if we wore something special it might add the community feeling.

 

Thanks to Laura, Caroline, and Rachel for helping to make them.

Unfortunately, we had to leave Maeve at the bottom of the mountain with her bad knees. Mariah brought walkie-talkies so we could talk to her as we hiked.

At the beginning it seemed so easy...

Mariah checked in with Maeve on a regular basis.

Then the hike got tougher and it was harder for us to stay together.

Eventually we realized that if we set small goals where we could see what we were hiking towards the whole thing got a little easier. The faster people would go ahead and then wait for the rest to catch up. This was hard at first but got easier as we got used to it.
 
Eventually we achieved our goal of getting to the top as a group.

The view was spectacular.

Congratulations Caroline!

As Mr. Williams said today grades never tell the whole story...but today we congratulate Caroline on making high honor roll for last term!