Browsing Archive: October, 2016
Posted by Jamie Kovacs on Friday, October 28, 2016,
You need:
1. A costume
2. A flashlight
3. A blanket to make a fort
4. A snack to share or mix in to the witches brew
5. Your inner poet as we are going to write poems to describe the monsters we make
Have a great weekend and come to school ready to celebrate Halloween on Monday. Boo Boo Boo
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Posted by Jamie Kovacs on Tuesday, October 25, 2016,
It's MONDAY!! Oh my. Here's what you need to know:
1. We are walking to Cody's to see his Halloween display and you NEED to bring your permission slip or you can't go.
2. You can bring a costume for our Halloween Parade which is Monday at 2:00.
3. You can donate pretzels or fishy crackers or Cheetos or cereal to add to a witches brew of salty things we are going to eat during the movie.
4. You need to bring a flashlight on Monday for reading in the dark.
5. We will be reading c...
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Posted by Jamie Kovacs on Friday, October 21, 2016,
Istanbul is a HUGE city! Did you discover that when you were researching Turkey?
Here are a couple fun things I learned about Istanbul: the city is 3000 years old. Can you even believe that? Also, the city is on 2 different continents. What? How is that even possible? Are there any other cities that span 2 continents? Any other countries that are on two continents?
I am still loving cikolate bread every morning and spending time playing with, reading to, watching movies with, and walk...
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Posted by Jamie Kovacs on Tuesday, October 18, 2016,
Since only a few people noticed the toilet paper comment yesterday (way to go Bjorn and Precious) I will still give those tickets for one more day. Go ahead and research about the toilet paper problem as suggested in yesterday's blog and you can still have the tickets I offered for that yesterday.
Today's new ticket question has to do with fun fact #2 about Turkey: feral dogs and cats are EVERYWHERE!! Yikes. The dogs are just laying around sleeping and have big tags on their ears. The cat...
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Posted by Jamie Kovacs on Monday, October 17, 2016,
As I am writing this it is 11:07 pm in Turkey and 3:07 where you are. I expect you are researching Turkey right now. Email me your questions and I'll do my best to answer them.
It has been so good to see our grandkids Jack and Lydia and our son John and his wife Pam but the trip has not been without it's interesting highs and lows.
The first leg of our trip was on a tiny tiny plane that only had 13 rows and we were in row 12!! Weird. Only 2 seats per side so we got to sit by eachother only....
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Posted by Jamie Kovacs on Thursday, October 13, 2016,
Why am I going to Turkey?
Where in the world IS Turkey?
What is the climate in Turkey?
What kind of food is there in Turkey?
How big is Istanbul, Turkey?
So many questions, so little time.
As you know, I am going to be gone next week and YOU will get a chance to learn all about Turkey in your Exploration time. You can also email me questions about what I am doing and what I am finding in Turkey.
You can also put some question on the blog. What are you currently wondering about Istanbul?
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Posted by Jamie Kovacs on Thursday, October 6, 2016,
Wow, our heads were spinning as we tried and tried to classify leaves based on the leaves we collected on our school yard. We found some really pretty leaves. We found some interesting leaves. We had some great discussions about the characteristics of the leaves and what that means to what kind of tree it is. Thanks for all your hard work guys. It was a hard assignment. We will work on it tomorrow after ART with KYLE and try to wrap it up.
The 5th graders are having a fabulous time. I a...
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Posted by Jamie Kovacs on Wednesday, October 5, 2016,
I wonder what that is all about? Ha Ha What is a wonder walk and how does one go about accomplishing a wonder walk? Blog a comment that answers that question and you can have 4 tickets tomorrow.
We are going to gather some leaves, do some research, classify them, label them, and put together a collection of your findings.
Tomorrow is outdoor classroom day in the UK. We will honor that by going outside to gather leaves. Good times.
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Posted by Jamie Kovacs on Tuesday, October 4, 2016,
Tomorrow morning the 5th graders are off to camp. I can't wait to hear all about their trip. I guess I will have to wait, however, all the way to Monday. :( We are really going to miss the excitement they add to our classroom.
Please know that the fall is upon us. It will be cooler outside and the air will be crisp and fresh. The kids at Deep Portage will spend lots of time outside and so will we. Have a sweatshirt or jacket with you as both groups will be outside a lot.
Blog a comment a...
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Posted by Jamie Kovacs on Monday, October 3, 2016,
Can you even believe how nice it has been outside? I LOVE this weather. I went on a couple long bike rides this weekend because it was just so wonderful. Blog a comment saying something you did outside this weekend and you can have 2 tickets.
Tomorrow we explore some questions in science and apply the scientific method. Some where else on this site there are tickets to be had regarding the scientific process. Will you find them? It's a LOT of tickets. Remember all the yummy treats tha...
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I am married to John Kovacs and have 5 sons, John age 35, Jim age 33, Joe age 29, Jake age 27, Vlad age 25. I also have 5 grandchildren, Jack and Lydia and Josiah, who are the kids of my oldest son and his wife, and Kennedy and Chloe who are the daughters of my second son and his wife. My husband and I live in WBL in the house where we raised all those boys.
____________My son John is married and lives in Turkey with his wife Pamela and sons Jack and Josiah and daughter Lydia. Hey, that makes me a grandmother--yikes! John is a teacher too. A couple years ago he taught at White Bear Lake and then for a couple years he's been teaching social studies to middle school kids at Hope Academy in Minneapolis. He also has taken classes at a seminary. He wrote a book called "The Historia" which you can buy on Amazon.com. He was a hockey player and played college hockey at Bethel. His wife is a lawyer worked at a big law firm in Minneapolis. Cool! Hey, guess what. I am a lawyer too!! This will be my 14th year teaching as I practiced law for over 15 years. Teaching is way more fun!! Now they are living in Turkey and simply trying to learn the language and make connections. This year my son has started free lance writing for many different publications.
__________My son Jim lives in Blaine with his wife Courtney and daughter Kennedy. They both graduated from Winona State where they were star pitchers on their baseball and softball teams. Jim graduated from St. Thomas School of Law. He clerked for a judge and now he works for a law firm in Golden Valley. His wife graduated from Des Moines University Medical School where she studied to be a physical therapist. She works for Twin Cities Orthopedics. You can check out pictures of their wedding on the summer vacation tab. Their daughters are very funny and cute and I often show the class pictures of them.
__________My son Joe graduated from Moorhead State and now got an MBA at George Washington University. He, like his brothers was a good athlete and loved sports. He also is a great singer and performer and was Danny Zuko in Grease, Gaston in Beauty and the Beast, and Curly in Oklahoma--all in WBL high school. He has a teaching license and did some long term subbing in WBL most recently at Hugo Elementary School. Next he worked at Infinite Campus training teachers on software that his employer makes. He got to travel all over the United States. He is married to Emily, and there are pictures of them you can check out on the vacation tab as well. Emily is a pharmacist for CVS in Targets. They moved to Washington DC so he could attend George Washington University and get an MBA. This last summer he did an internship with the Washington Nationals baseball team for his MBA program. Now he works for IBM!
__________My son Jake graduated from University of Minnesota with a degree in Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science. He is a superstar in math. He was a TA for a professor in the computer science department. He really likes to golf and was on the White Bear Lake golf team. He worked at Gem Lake so if you ever golf there, you may have seen Jake. Do you like golf? As soon as he graduated he started working full time at a company that writes online computer games. He spends his day writing code to create games. He loves that kind of writing, do you? He taught many of my students to write code in Scratch. He got married in Jan. 2020 to a darling girl named Molly who works at his same company. She is a game tester and plays the games the guys like Jake write.
_________Vlad officially became our son in June of 2010 although we have loved him since we met him a couple years before that. We traveled to his homeland, Latvia, 3 times to make him ours. He has been living with us since March of 2010. He graduated from WBL High School too. He traveled to China with the high school a couple years ago and wants to go back. Can you believe that you can travel with your classmates and friends when you are in high school? He graduated from the University of Wisconsin River Falls. He spent a semester in Seoul, S. Korea in a study abroad program through River Falls. He also a semester in China in 2019.
_________My husband John works for Collins Electrical Company as a project manager but he is amazing with computers. He set up this web site for me!! Thanks John. He is the IT guy for his parents, and our whole family!!
My husband and I have a cute teddy bear puppy who is 3 years old. He is very spoiled.
