Peek In Our Week - Mr. John's Class - Week Of September 23, 2019

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Living and Non-Living- This week we talked about living and non-living things. Your children now know what makes a living thing. All living things reproduce, grow, eat or take in nutrients, breathe or exchange gases, and need water. We are all in agreement that plants, animals, trees, grass, are living things! My shoe is not a living thing nor am I at 4:30 am . My youngest son’s shoes may or may not be living. I do not get close enough to tell due to the smell and I may have seen them move on their own…. Boys that are 13 1/2 years old, SMH.

Cultural Subjects:
Your children can now count to ten in 9 languages (English, Latin, Sign Language, Spanish, German, French, Greek, Japanese, Arabic with the Lebanese dialect)

Radio Radio:
The past six months my radio in my car has been acting up and was on it’s last leg. It started with a big pop sound and the volume would cut out. The only way to get it back to normal was to turn off the radio and turn off the car. This was very tricky while on the highway. I’d put the car in neutral, turn off the car for ten seconds, then turn the car back on, and gently put it back in gear (not sure what that was doing to my transmission). Then it happened… my “AUX” button stopped working leaving me with commercial radio. I was ready to pull my hair out. Even pounding on the radio did not work.

I finally bit the proverbial bullet and purchased a new radio with everything needed to install it. As I side note everything needed to install the radio cost more than the radio itself. One of the parents offered to install it. I was greeted by a very active Rotty and and had a good nap in the backyard. Two hours later I had a new radio. I plugged in my AUX cord and used my Spotify account (again). Now the journey begins. I was able to set the time but the rest is fuzzy. Programming, yes I used the word programming the rest of the features, yikes. I could change the color of my display. I had a nice red “scarlet” but my youngest changes it to pink, he said purple, we agreed on magenta. My son pokes around and “programs” the colors to change on their own and the colors blink with the beat of the music. If I wasn’t susceptible to seizures before I am now. Also, I couldn’t take my eyes of the darn thing and ran a red light. I am begrudgingly waiting for that ticket to come in the mail. I have no idea what the USB port is for. I got the blue tooth to work with playing music. I dare not make a call on blue tooth, yet…. below is my new