Heads up, SXS is hosting a charity event at the Help is On the Way shelter next Thursday, December 17th at 6:30, located in the West Adams district of Los Angeles. The shelter provides transitional housing and mental health services to a diverse population of homeless, elderly, recent parolees, and others. We’re going to serve dinner, provide dessert, give toiletry gift bags, and facilitate board games with a group of forty-five.
As wonderful as the holiday season proves for the majority of us, it also emphasizes feelings of isolation and hopelessness for those who do not lead stable lives. At SXS, we’re dedicated to cultivating acts of service as a fundamental part of our mission. This means exposing ourselves, and students, to the reality of marginalized populations within our community. Let’s come together!
Please contact our SXS Operations Manager, Jami:
- If you, or just SXS student, would like to join us!
- If you would like to provide a dessert or board game [we will return it].
- If you would like to offer a $$$ donation.
Special shout out to the Leafs for committing to provide some awesome holiday sheet cake!
On the topic of gratitude, taking a moment to acknowledge how full our lives truly are can lead to deeper feelings of connection and fulfillment.
Apparently there is a right way to learn how to read. We must teach phonetic skills for reading. Students should know what ā (long a) sound makes. Maybe it’s a traditional technique, but it is integral students learn how to match corresponding sounds to the letters they read. This also translates for older students who mispronounce tricky vocabulary words when reading silently. Time and again, I find students make careless mistakes on standardize tests because they do not practice reading challenging text out loud, and therefore cannot recognize typical vocabulary words.
Test your middle or high school student: Adversary
ad·ver·sar·y • ˈadvərˌserē/
noun • 1. one's opponent in a contest, conflict, or dispute.
“Reading aloud recaptures the physicality of words. To read with your lungs and diaphragm, with your tongue and lips, is very different than reading with your eyes alone. The language becomes a part of the body, which is why there is always a curious tenderness, almost an erotic quality, in those 18th- and 19th-century literary scenes where a book is being read aloud in mixed company. The words are not mere words. They are the breath and mind, perhaps even the soul, of the person who is reading.” - Verlyn Klinkenborg
Turgor pressure: pushes the plasma membrane against the cell wall of plant, bacteria, and fungi cells as well as those protist cells which have cell walls. Simple, cool science is all around us. #beautiful
Teenage gold : )
Good luck to all our ISEE & ACT students! Brentwood midterm students!! #youcandoit
xoxo,
Ash