Quilts, rookie reports, and "large"times

Hi, all--
I can't draw worth a lick (Tee will understand that phrase), so I was really worried about making my quilt square for our school's quilts. My sister, a teacher elsewhere in NC, told me about quilt squares that will go through the computer printer. It's sold in the quilting department of craft/fabric stores, and has a peel-off paper backing. I printed wordart, photographs, an outline map, and text on my square.

Last week my 6th graders were working with 3rd and 1st person point of view and needed more practice changing 3rd person to 1st person. I thought of my rookie report on Rohn Buser. Kids got copies of it, were interested in it, I popped it up on the screen via projector to my computer, used the Track Changes tool to edit it as they told me the changes to make Rohn the narrator of his report. (Make the font larger so they can easily see it.) I printed wallet size color photos of the pic I had taken of Rohn and his dad, and each student got one to keep. They noticed Martin's finger, so I had them predict why part of it was missing, asked them what clues and prior knowledge they used to make the prediction, told them the story of the accident, and then we talked about revising predictions.

Tee and everyone--last Friday night I was at our high school football game, our town's main entertainment, and a friend asked me if my college sophomore daughter was having at large time at NC State. Thought of you, Tee! And yes, she is having a large time! Go, Wolfpack!

Martha