Focusing on FOCUS
FOCUS has been an amazing opportunity to me for many years. I've been in the FOCUS program since kindergarten, and I am now in the fifth grade, sitting in my FOCUS class writing this blog. Throughout all of my years in FOCUS, I've been given the chance to do many many things. I am able to share my ideas with all of my classmates, and I can use my imagination and creativity in everything I do. In kindergarten FOCUS, even though I was young, it was a learning experience. My friend and I were the only two people in FOCUS at that time, and during FOCUS, we would do a work sheet and maybe a mind bottler. Every single FOCUS day however, my friend and I would make up a puppet show and preform it for our teacher. I believe that was a great lesson/strategy, because it taught us both to use our imagination and creativity. In first grade FOCUS, my classmates and I did a lot of cool experiments and research projects. In second and third grade FOCUS, I had the same teacher, and we would do logic grids, analogies, and play games. The analogies and logic grids helped us to use our minds and the clues we were given. I now have the same FOCUS teacher in fifth grade as I did in fourth grade. We still do logic and analogies, but they are more complex. We've done balances, triple venn diagrams, and many other fun, new, and exciting activities. FOCUS is a fantastic program for children to be in. It makes us feel as if we are something greater than the world. Today's children are tomorrow's leaders, and FOCUS is something that helps us accomplish that goal. This program takes kids like my classmates and I to new levels of education, where we are callenged, which doesn't just prepare us for our future education, but it prepares us for our future lives.
Reader's Theater in FOCUS
In fourth and fifth grade, the FOCUS program preforms a play based on a book or a play. This is called Reader's Theater. In fifth grade this year, we are preforming A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare. This play is about two people from different backgrounds who fall in love, and go on a crazy adventure so they can get married without the woman's father dissapproving their marriage. The family members, lovers, and fairies in this play are just characters of their own.
In this play, I am the character Titania, which is the fairy queen. Shakespeare's play was somewhat confusing at the beggining, because of all the love talk, because this person named Hermia liked Lysander, but she was supposed to marry Demetrius, so they ran away, but Hermia's sister Helena loved Demetrius. Demetrius chased Hermia and Lysander into the forest, and then Helena chased Demetrius into the forest. Then, these fairies were fighting(one of them is my character) so Oberon sends his assistant, Puck, to sprinkle love potion on people's eyes so they fall in love with the first thing they see. Then Puck put potion on the wrong people's eyes, so Hermia loved Demetrius, Demetrius loved Helena, Helena loved Lysander, and Lysander still loved Hermia. Then the love potion was removed from the people's eyes so they loved the same people in the beggining, except for the fact that Demetrius loved Helena now,and it was just all so confusing! Other than that, I think that the play is very exciting and some what mysterious because you don't know what's going to happen next. The only down side about about this is that the fairy king, Oberon, whom I'm supposed to be married to in the play, is shared by two girls, so I have to pretend that another girl is my huband. Not as easy as it sounds!
Good-bye Rock Springs
Rocksprings has been like a giant family to me. While I'm here, I feel like everyone just has a connection with the others. All of the teachers are best friends, and that reflects on the kids. I've been given many opprotunities for all six years I have been here. I have had many good times here, and I've collected many great memories. All the teachers and staff here are amazing. I cannot believe I am leaving this wonderful school. Now, I am taking one step forward, ready to take on new challenges and seek new opprotunities. Good-bye Rock Springs. I will miss you.
Sincerely,
Jenna
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