5 More Days Until Thanksgiving Break!!! YOU CAN DO IT!

Hello, My Peeps!! I hope you weekend was less exciting than mine.  I was planning on Saturday being an day to relax, get organized, and catch up on my Stitch Fix.  I was going along fine and then my sister called in a panic.  She had gone to my mom's house to clean out her deep freeze because we sold it.  If I haven't told y'all, my mom is staying in Hawaii with my other sister and will continue to live with my sister and her husband.  It's been pretty emotional for me as I haven't been more than 30 minutes away from my mother at any given time.  We will be working at her house off and on going through things.  Please say prayers.  My mom keeps EVERYTHING!!!  So, my sister calls in a panic because there is a huge grass fire that is quickly approaching my mom's house/land.  My brother lives next door to my mother too.  I jumped in my car and flew to Greenville.  They were already trying to get some of my mom's things in case the fire moved.  The wind was brutal and carrying embers.  Hay bales were on fire all around.  It was quite scary to witness.  Thankfully, there were a lot of volunteer firemen on the scene and they were working fast to get the blaze put out.  It stopped burning about 100 yards from my mom's fence line.  When my sister and brother first saw that the fire was swiftly moving toward our land, my sister asked my mother what she had to have out of the house, my mother asked if she could get the piano.  I'm just going to leave that right there. 

On Sunday I went to the JFK museum, which I had never been to.  I don't know how that happened either.  There was a movie of his speech that was used in Hidden Figures as well.

"We choose to go to the moon," the president said. "We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too."

In the movie Kevin Costner is speaking to Congress and says: 
"Whoever gets there first makes the rules.  That's been true for every civilization."  We have to touch the stars if only to ensure our own survival.

We aren't at STEM because it's easy.  We are here because it's hard and we were all ready for a change/challenge.  We are making the rules for our school to reach for the stars.  We are the trailblazers in a new possible era of GISD - school of choice.  We are here first.  I know it's been a whirlwind but we are better in many ways for it.  We have surely not arrived but we are finding our way.  Keep experiencing "firsts" both inside and outside of our walls no matter how great or small.  What we do every day matters but most of all YOU MATTER!!  Choose joy this week.  We all have many things to be thankful for.  Make your list of 10 things you are grateful for and keep it close.  When you feel tired and restless or getting in a bad mood, take it out and read it.  It is proven that you can't be negative and grateful at the same time.  Feel free to share your list as a response or just let me know you read this post so I know you are keeping plugged in each week.  Please respond before you leave for break on Friday!

******************WEEK AT A GLANCE**********************
Monday & Tuesday Regular Schedule
Wednesday - K- 2 - 4 Thanksgiving Feast (1-3-5- "Fun Lunch" in room)
Thursday - 1 -3 -5 Thanksgiving Feast (K-2-4 "Fun Lunch in room)
Friday - 5th Grade Fossil Dig, Dr. Liggins Visit from 8:30-10:30, Lunch provided by Admin