{"id":5756,"date":"2020-05-07T09:20:33","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T16:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/milloyd\/?p=5756"},"modified":"2020-05-07T09:57:41","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T16:57:41","slug":"on-a-bit-of-a-roll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/milloyd\/2020\/05\/07\/on-a-bit-of-a-roll\/","title":{"rendered":"On a bit of a roll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There may be times when it is hard not to notice what we can&#8217;t do or what isn&#8217;t getting done ore going well, but right now I cannot help but notice what is happening that is both interesting and good:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We had a lovely <a href=\"https:\/\/douglas.burnabyschools.ca\/\">virtual assembly<\/a> Friday (featuring some of your hearts for healthcare workers, thank you!)<\/li>\n<li>Strong responses to questions about &#8216;The Difficult Path&#8217; show you may be developing Lingsi&#8217;s superpower<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m seeing a few of your video clips tying in with the endings you wrote to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/player\/play\/1729117763730\/\">the unfinished story we heard last week<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Several of you are having success at Farkle, the dice game I gave you this week<\/li>\n<li>I got to read some of your lines of verse (though one was about pets that bite!)<\/li>\n<li>I got to <em>meet<\/em> someone&#8217;s new cat virtually (but again a pet with a propensity to bite\u203d)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As I alluded in the title to this post, it is starting to feel like we are on a roll. So (after reminding you all to <a href=\"https:\/\/sd41-my.sharepoint.com\/:w:\/g\/personal\/e14818_burnabyschools_ca\/ES3TR0FF3YFCvuRsTgXFDY0Ba6unliSaMevznkTZ44UzPA?e=aucRlQ\">continue working on the tasks laid out for this week<\/a>) I&#8217;ll recommend you plan ahead for Sunday by checking out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poems\/58518\/on-mothers-day-56d23cf7ac33d\">this wonderful poem by Bruce Lansky<\/a>. You should recognise the rhythm. You might try writing your own version to include (perhaps along with a copy of &#8216;On Mother&#8217;s Day&#8217;, crediting Mr Lansky, of course) in a card this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll also recommend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.playonlinedicegames.com\/farkle\">this online version of Farkle<\/a> (There are a few ads, but it&#8217;s not too bad). The game goes quickly, but watching the text description for each turn helps. And like most things in life, the practice (including the turns that don&#8217;t go your way) help you think about and develop your strategy. (Did you know you could have this much fun learning about chance &amp; probability?)<\/p>\n<p>Let me know how your farkle games (or other endeavours) are going in the comments, and I&#8217;ll see you at our next meeting this afternoon in Teams at 1PM.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-5757 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/milloyd\/files\/2020\/05\/farkle.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"282\" height=\"502\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/milloyd\/files\/2020\/05\/farkle.png 282w, https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/milloyd\/files\/2020\/05\/farkle-169x300.png 169w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 282px) 100vw, 282px\" \/><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NB9JWZsAneI\" width=\"565\" height=\"341\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There may be times when it is hard not to notice what we can&#8217;t do or what isn&#8217;t getting done ore going well, but right now I cannot help but notice what is happening that is both interesting and good: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/milloyd\/2020\/05\/07\/on-a-bit-of-a-roll\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[37],"tags":[587,589,588,432,585,590,254],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/milloyd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5756"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/milloyd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/milloyd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/milloyd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/milloyd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5756"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/milloyd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5764,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/milloyd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5756\/revisions\/5764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/milloyd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/milloyd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/milloyd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}