It’s December 16. 
Today is “National Chocolate Covered Anything Day.” What food item would you like to cover in chocolate?

 

Trivial Fact of the Day:  Armadillos, opossums and sloths spend 80% of their lives sleeping.

Interesting Quote of the Day:  “All that we are is a result of what we have thought.”  --Gautama Buddha (Spiritual leader on whose teachings Buddhism was founded)

Vocabulary Word of the Day:  fortitude (noun) – use this noun as a synonym for strength, especially strength shown during a time or pain or hardship.  Who do you know who has shown great fortitude?

Reading Day!! 

Be sure to add up your pages you read over the weekend. 

Block 1 - Vocabulary, We Are All One, Plot diagram

Blocks 2, 3, & 4 - Sherlock Holmes