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How could I ever forget Coco bobbin g her head side to side when someone complimented her, or forget Mikey dancing around with a sleeping bag wrapped around his head, or the way Emma would just start screaming and running in place whenever things got exciting in gym class? How could I forget Cynthia’s constant need to latch onto to my arm or leg when I walked in the room, or how Chloe would sometimes jus t walk up to me while I was teaching, tug my arm, and start tel ling me a story she thought I would like? I’ll never forget Dor a Lian’s robot voice whenever she was giving a silly answer to a silly question, nor will I forget Leo’s hilarious cri es of “Oh my God!” when he thought the class was getting a lit tle too loud. I’ll always remember Edwina’s ever-present des ire to be flflipped and spun, so long as it didn’t resemble dan cing in any way (I’ve never met a girl who hates dancing more). I’ll always remember Dora Chen’s goofy attempts at hugs, where she would simply run into me, arms open and eyes closed . I’ll never forget Justin laughing uproariously, for days on end, at something as silly as me writing the word “G-ma” in place of “Grandma” on the whiteboard. And how could I forget June’s attempt to trick me every day by saying she didn’t hav e a pencil when she so obviously did. You see Elephants, I could go on and on about how all of you are so bright, so hardworking, and so kind- and it would all be true. But equally important to all those things are the special little details that make you who you are. On top of being excellent readers and mathem aticians, on top of being incredible actors and athletes, you were also my goofballs. As you move forward in school, thi ngs are going to get more serious and difficult. It’s a sim ple fact of life. And so my advice to you is this: don’t forget to be your silly selves. You’ve all proven to me that you ’ve got what counts when it comes to academics, so never be afr aid to let loose and have a little fun. Thank you so much Ele phants, not just for being so well behaved, so enthusiastic, and so smart- but also for just being you. I’ll miss you all so much. Sincerely,
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Salvador Dali’s Melting Clocks While we can never be completely certain of Dali’s personal interpretation of his work, we can guess that the melting clocks in Persistence of Memory and the surreal nature of his art represent the malleability of time and the creative ways we can examine reality. In this way, children are like Dali - creatively interpreting their own version of reality in their own time.
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2012October 14 - Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner becomes the first person to break the sound barrier without any machine assistance during a record space dive out of the Red Bull Stratos helium-filled balloon from 24 miles (39 kilometers) over Roswell, New Mexico in the United States.
October 24-30 Hurricane Sandy kills at least 209 people in the Caribbean, Bahamas, United States and Canada. Considerable storm surge damage causes major disruption to the eastern seaboard of the United States.
January 11 – The French military begins a five-month intervention into the Northern Mali conflict, targeting the militant Islamist Ansar Dine group.
February 15 - A meteor explodes over the Russian city of Chelyabinsk, injuring 1,491 people and damaging over 4,300 buildings. It is the most powerful meteor to strike Earth’s atmosphere in over a century. The incident, along with a coincidental flyby of a larger asteroid, prompts international concern regarding the vulnerability of the planet to meteor strikes.
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February 28 - Benedict XVI resigns as pope, the first to do so since Gregory XII in 1415, and the first to do so voluntarily since Celestine V in 1294. Later, Jorge Mario Bergoglio is elected the 266th pope, taking the name Francis. He is the first Jesuit pope, the first pope from the Americas, and the first pope from the Southern Hemisphere.
April 8 Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher died at 87 years of age. She was the longest serving British PM and the only woman to have held the post. She was a controversial figure, both in Britain and abroad, and is remembered as “the Iron Lady.”
March 5 - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez passed away after 14 years in office. He was loved by many Venezuelan citizens and other Latin Americans, but is remembered as a firebrand in the larger international community.
April 15 -Two bombs explode at the Boston Marathon in Boston, Massachusetts, in the United States, killing 3 and injuring 264 others. May 9 - The 2013 Guang Da Xing No. 28 incident was a fatal shooting incident involving the Taiwanese fishing boat Guang Da Xing No. 28 and a Philippine Coast Guard patrol boat. A Taiwanese fisherman, Hung Shihcheng (洪石成), was gunned down by sailors on the Philippine vessel, prompting Taipei to call for apologies, investigations, and to severely condemn the tepid response from Manila.
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