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Food For Thought

Filed Under (Holidays) by Mrs. Braidwood on 31-10-2009 and tagged animoto, class, community, food for thought, fun, Halloween

This is a common North American expression that transfers the idea of digesting food in the stomach to mulling things over in the brain. It’s when something stimulates us to think and provides us with intellectual nourishment. Every Friday shortly before the class is dismissed for recess, Division 2 enjoys their snack together while I share some “food for thought”. Most times it’s a video. These range from inspirational to thought provoking to educational to just plain fun.

This past Friday, was the day before Halloween and it’s been an exciting week leading up to this event. Although we didn’t have a costume day at school, details were shared about the creatures that our class would soon turn into a little more than 24 hours later. Many of them involved zombie combinations of some sort. So, inspired by the Halloween spirit and my class’ fascination with Michael Jackson’s Thriller, we sat down to watch the full length video, which incidentally was first aired in 1982 when I was only 11 years old and in Grade 6 – probably enough “food for thought” for the day.

Once the video began, a funny thing happened in my class. I wasn’t able to catch everyone with the camera – I had to find it first! – but the excitement of Halloween soon took over.

Yep … Division 2 has no fun at all.

Image: Halloween Party Details by livinglocurto

11 Responses to “Food For Thought”

David Says:
November 2nd, 2009 at 8:26 am
Good post, the excitment of halloween has that effect on kids. I know at my school everyone was talking about it friday. The food for thought idea is a great idea, I would be interested in giving it a try.

Solid Post, David

Check out my blog at http://davidg10oda.edublogs.org

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Mrs. Braidwood Reply:
November 2nd, 2009 at 8:26 pm
Thanks, David. I’m really enjoying the scheduled Friday opportunity to share something with the students. We don’t often take time out to sit and have snack together once they hit the higher grades. It’s a nice change and fitting for our “food for thought” moments. Maybe you’ll get a chance to try it with your class. Let me know if you do.

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layne Says:
November 2nd, 2009 at 10:24 am
Your so right we have no fun at all! XD

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Ryan Says:
November 2nd, 2009 at 10:26 am
Hello class. It’s so funny with me dancing with the class. I love to dance and I usually don’t tell anyone. We should go in a dance class, shouldn’t we?

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hannan Says:
November 2nd, 2009 at 10:40 am
Hello everyone! That day was so much fun! Thriller is such a good song, I love to dance to it! This was probably the strangest thing I have done in school and I loved it. This is my favourite class and I can tell that this year is going to be so much fun… I wonder what we are going to do around Christmas! O_o

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Shania Says:
November 2nd, 2009 at 10:43 am
Hi everyone! I love Thriller, and I love dancing to it too. Looks like our class is pretty good at doing the Thriller. It was deffenetly a fun part of the day. I wonder how long the official Thriller music video is.

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Easton Says:
November 2nd, 2009 at 4:50 pm
Hi Ripple Effect! That video was freaky in a good way! I love the thriller music, our class has done a very similar video as well, you should see! http://huzzah.edublogs.org/
Scary zombies! Are you sure that’s not fun?

Easton

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Shania Reply:
November 2nd, 2009 at 8:05 pm
Hi Easton. The video was freaky, but your right, it’s freaky in a good way. I will check out your similar video for sure and I guess scary zombies is fun. Hope you had a happy Halloween!

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travis Says:
November 2nd, 2009 at 8:04 pm
Ha ha ha! that looked like it was fun.

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Mrs. Braidwood Reply:
November 2nd, 2009 at 8:20 pm
Yes, we missed you that day Travis! Next time, hopefully we’ll get you up dancing as well.

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keian3 Says:
November 17th, 2009 at 8:45 am
I liked the video my names keian i’m from america I,m in 7th grade

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