Feel Good About Yourself

Could you use a good pick-me-up day?  You need to take a multiple intelligence test.  Now listen a bit before you click away from me.  There are eight categories for multiple intelligences.  They let you know what your strong points are.  I took a multiple intelligent test the other day and I felt better about myself when I finished.  It was almost like someone had been spying on me and described how I felt.  Finally someone had seen the good side of me that I have kept hidden so wellJ  The test will lists your three strongest categories.  Believe it or not it said I had good body movement.  No one has ever said that before.  It meant that I like to move, dance, wiggle, walk and swim.  I love to do all of those.  I had rather do any of them than watch TV.  Even in the classroom I am always moving about.  I very seldom have a day that I sit at my desk.   Next it said I loved nature.  I do.  It said I might be the one to name the birds, trees and rocks.  Yes, I am that nerdy person and I love it.  It helps me out when I teach biology and we are talking about identifying trees, birds and rocks.  Lastly it said I had a good sense of self.  I spend time by myself and think things over.  I try to show the students at work that it is okay to be yourself by telling them about my weakness  and how my weaknesses have made be stronger in other ways. 

     Link onto this web site and take a multiple intelligence test for yourself.  There is also a place on this web site that explains the eight multiple intelligences.  Go ahead… feel good about yourself J

take multiple intelligence test:)

Phenominal

watch this video

I found the video truly phenomenal.  It is footage of the tsunami in Japan.  It makes you realize how strong nature can be.  We sometimes think we are all that and a bag of chips.  The video makes us realize how vulnerable we can be.  We have seen two major tsunamis in the last six years.   The death toll in Japan is estimated to be over 20,000 and the death toll for the tsunami in the Indian Ocean in 2004 was over 200,000.  We had just finished our study on earthquakes and tsunamis in Earth Science when the Japan tsunami occurred.  The cars and boats on the video move like toys in a bathtub.  I am sure it was surreal to those watching as they thought about their families and how close they came to death themselves.  Life is full of curves.  We have tsunamis in our lives that we do not know are coming.  Comment if you will on the following question:

1.       What causes a tsunami?

2.        What type of tsunamis can come about in one’s life unexpectedly?

3.       What can we do for others who are experimenting one of life’s unexpected tsunamis?

frustrated

What a day!!  I am trying to get this blog set up and it is a challenge.  This is a test to see what it looks like when I "blog".