tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6993982683308194802024-03-13T23:27:57.493+09:00The Charming ClassroomStar191168http://www.blogger.com/profile/05766608385460559321noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-699398268330819480.post-57094359273887568052015-01-22T23:48:00.000+09:002015-01-22T23:58:59.960+09:00Island Jungle Theme<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">With the cold winter months just beginning, I decided to turn our classroom into a tropical paradise. My students and I spent our whole first week back from winter vacation decorating. They were like little leaf cutting machines! One huge advantage of teaching older students is that they make very capable helpers! Now that we are done, we can enjoy our island classroom for the rest of the year. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">For the ceiling, I hung a green hula-hoop up in the center. Then I strung alternating shades of green streamers. I used a fishing line hung across to help hold up the streamers in the middle so that they wouldn't hang too low.</span><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Qe2XvEFfNBs/VLkQUwVcxJI/AAAAAAAAA-4/IXuawAQJUmM/s1600/FullSizeRender-33.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Qe2XvEFfNBs/VLkQUwVcxJI/AAAAAAAAA-4/IXuawAQJUmM/s1600/FullSizeRender-33.jpg" height="480" width="640" /></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I also added a few paper flower garlands I bought on Amazon to add some more color. I love decorating the ceiling! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">For the background around my whiteboards, I stapled up some tropical leaf bulletin board paper. I framed it with four inch strips of bamboo printed paper. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">For my festive chair, I stapled a lei to the top of the chair and taped the skirt under the bottom. It stays in place pretty well. I've been using it now for a week and had no problems. I can't even feel that it's there when I sit. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> I replaced the blue paper with green for the bookshelf background. The treasure chest is full this time. The students have to earn five coins in order to open the chest and select a treat. All of the candy is stuff that you can't buy here, so that makes it a special treat!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Leopard print border with fake fabric leaves and some real plants that have survived from last year's Hogwarts herbology display. Also my students requested a tea area. They are really into drinking green and fruit teas. They are allowed to have it as long as they keep the area clean and bring their own supplies like tea and honey to share. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> My students joke that I'm the big tiki head and that they are the little ones. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">My "window," also bordered by the bamboo paper strips. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Bamboo printed paper strikes again! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Our Mayan temple. It's hard to see in the picture but the black part on the sides is lined with red christmas lights that blink. Our temple looks like it belongs in Vegas.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The leaves look really impressive, but were not that hard to make. I made six different leaf stencils and gave my students tons of green and yellow paper. They traced the leaf design onto one page and then layered several sheets of paper when they cut. This way they could make 6-7 leaves each time. Multiply that by six workers and you have lots of leaves in no time! I made a few large basic leaf designs with green bulletin board paper and then they layered their leaves on top.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I recycled the green kelp forest pieces and the blue water pieces from my last class theme for this waterfall. I also bought a long silver strand streamer doorway decoration. To make the waterfall, we used a huge piece of cardboard and cut out a rocky design. Then I layered the blue strips and the silver streamers to make the water. I added some extra blue pieces to the bottom for a pool. I twisted brown bulletin board paper to line the bottom and stapled a few fabric leaves to it. I surrounded the whole thing with the green vines. There is actually a door to a classroom behind the waterfall, but it's not used.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">If you're wondering how I so perfectly spaced the decorations, they were pre-hung on strings and I just had to staple them to the wall. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The blue lanterns and spirals are also recycled from the ocean theme.</span></div>
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Star191168http://www.blogger.com/profile/05766608385460559321noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-699398268330819480.post-58406833059163623582014-09-20T22:02:00.000+09:002014-09-20T22:02:54.091+09:00Ocean Classroom Theme<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">New School Year, New Room Theme!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">While I still love Harry Potter, I also love to decorate and I couldn't wait to start planning out a new theme! While this room isn't as over the top as my previous Hogwarts classroom. I like it even more and I have the Lilly Pulitzer wardrobe of octopus and jellyfish dresses to match. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> I copied this wall from a picture I saw on pinterest. The blue pieces are strips of plastic table cloths. The seaweed is made from stringing fishing line through paper cone cups that I spray painted lime green.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">My students made the "coral" from paper cone cups and from a mixture of tissue paper and dyed coffee filters. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> The kelp forest is also made from plastic tablecloths. I added some silver cupcake liners randomly to look like barnacles. The sunken ship is just cut out from black bulletin board paper. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Students who choose to buy an owl, keep them in our school owlery. Every student has their own mailbox. The Owl Post workers are in charge of sorting the mail from the outgoing box. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The giant pendulum is from the Hogwarts Clock Tower. I also posted the Hogwarts school song, my version of the Sorting Hat song, and a description of traits and information for the three houses. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The hat talked...or at least appeared to. I used a text to speech program online that had a British accent, which sounded very similar to Sorting Hat in the movie. I wrote a custom messages for each of my students and then recorded it with my iphone. During the sorting, I held the phone behind the hat. Then I just clicked on the student's name, and the hat would talk and sort them. I even had the hat sing a special welcome song before the sorting!</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"> </span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ah…you have a clever mind…plenty of courage too I see…and you love a challenge…you are a tough one…let me see…you want to go where? Are you sure? I think I know best… I am a hat after all …and I see it plainly all here in your head… You will do well in Hippogriff!</span></i></div>
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Since this is Hogwarts International School for Muggles, our houses are different. We have three houses at our Hogwarts. The houses are Dragons, Phoenix, and Hippogriffs. Each house has their own personality traits that are most valued. The sorting hat took each student's personality into consideration when sorting them into their houses.</div>
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The pixies came out better than I expected. I found some pixie pictures online and added blue wings to them. When I hung them on the wall, I bent their arms, legs, and wings out a bit. Now when the heat or air conditioner comes on, they flutter about and look like they are moving.</div>
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This is the jobs board. Every student in my class has a job. The jobs change once a month. If the students do their jobs well, they can earn galleons to spend in Diagon Alley. My students love having a way to earn galleons. Everyone's favorite job is Prefect, because Prefects are allowed to take up to 5 points if they see any rule breaking. So far, the prefects have done a wonderful job not abusing their power and this has taught them that being in charge isn't always easy.<br />
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The book covers were all created by members of therpf.com. As are almost all of the props I used around the classroom. I want to thank all of them for helping me to create such a special classroom for my students. As we read the Harry Potter series in class, my students love to find things mentioned in the books hidden around the room.</div>
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During our first week in the new classroom, I turned our science class into potions class. Each day the students were given a recipe to follow and a supply of ingredients. They experimented with density columns, made flubber, and homemade bouncy balls. The classroom really felt like potions class. The recipes were difficult and if they didn't follow them correctly, their "potion" didn't turn out so well. I awarded house points to the students who were able to get the best results. </div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">I was inspired by the Gryffindor Common Room. The chandelier is lit by battery operated tea lights. Our class house-elves' favorite job is to lower the chandelier to turn the candles on and off each day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">There are twelve potions that the students may buy. The rest are for decoration. Each potion does something different. For example, the Polyjuice Potion allows a student to switch seats with someone else for a day, including me. The Invigorating Elixir allows the entire class to have an extra 10 minutes of recess. None of the students know what the potion's effect will be, until they buy it. Several of them are very curious as to what the Felix Felicis potion will do, but they will have to save up to find out.</span>Star191168http://www.blogger.com/profile/05766608385460559321noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-699398268330819480.post-83288378965496021082014-02-15T16:49:00.000+09:002014-03-01T22:28:46.774+09:00Other Diagon Alley Shops<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">All of my students have their own bank vault page where I keep track of their accounts. On their first day at Hogwarts they randomly selected a key to a vault. The vaults all belonged to famous wizarding families and have been passed on to whomever owns the key. The students now own the key, so they get to inherit the vault and keep whatever was left inside. So, for example one student choose the key for vault #713. This vault belonged to Nicolas Flamel and contained 10 galleons. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">It's helpful to note that these bathrooms are upstairs in the upper school hallway. I would never put a sign like this in a bathroom used by the younger students for fear that they would take it literally. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">I thought it would be fun to show you the stark contrast in our decorating taste. He enjoys my little world I've created for my students, but prefers "simplicity." He teaches high school and AP math and science by the way. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>I later snuck into his classroom and decorated his bulletin boards while he was away. Then I got a bit carried away and decorated the school science lab and the rest of the hallway from my classroom to the library. There was just so much white empty space...</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Notice I was able to sneak a little color onto his bulletin boards.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">So above is a little bit of decorating I did in the science lab. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">This is the House cup Award my students receive if their house wins. It's free to download on Teachers Pay Teachers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">My class just finished reading the book "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets." To celebrate, we decided to have a Grand Feast in the Great Hall while we watched the movie and dressed up as our favorite characters. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">My students all brought in a treat to share with the class and I made Butterbeer. Our small country doesn't have hardly any of the ingredients needed, but I found a recipe </span><span style="font-size: large;">on </span><a href="http://bakingdom.com/2010/11/butterbeer-oh-yes-friends-butterbeer.html" style="font-size: x-large;">Bakingdom</a> <span style="font-size: large;">that allows you to make everything from scratch</span><span style="font-size: large;">. I made everything separate</span><span style="font-size: large;"> the night before and then made the drinks to order. I've had the Butterbeer at the Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal, and this was just as delicious! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">The cauldron cake was so neat! The cake had hard toffee and a sour green icing oozing from it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">One of my students made these. It was two cookies sealed together with a whole almond inside, like a real nut. Very creative!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Each week my students are presented with a Weekly Wizarding Challenge to complete in their spare time. The challenges are a fun way for the students to earn more galleons, house points, or a prize.</span></div>
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<b style="font-size: xx-large;">Challenge #1: </b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Find Neville's Lost Remembrall</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The remembrall was hidden behind some papers that were on a bulletin board. It took the students four days to find it. This challenge was fun, but turned out to be a bit distracting. As the suspense mounted, the students became a bit obsessive about looking for the remembrall. They would be working quietly, when suddenly they'd ask if they could check somewhere real quick. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The challenge was for the students to estimate how many Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans were in the green jar. Each student could submit one guess per day and on Friday the student with the closest estimate would win 10 beans of their choice. This challenge was harder than it looks. I personally guessed that there were probably only 200 or so beans, but when I counted them out, there were actually 384! I noticed that almost all of the students' estimates were between 70-150, so on Wednesday I gave them a hint. I told them that no one had guessed correctly so far and that the closest estimate was off by more than 100! That seemed to help and I got much better estimates on Thursday and Friday. The actual winner guessed 377 beans. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I came up with the Chamber of Secrets game myself. In the game I have hidden a small dark mark (under a sink) which symbolizes the entrance to the Chamber of Secrets. The three houses made up three teams. I also hid two unmarked sealed envelopes. One had a basilisk and fangs inside, the other had Tom Riddle's Diary. The object of the game is for the teams to find the entrance to the Chamber of Secrets, the Basilisk, and Tom Riddle's Diary. All in that order. Teams were not allowed to retrieve the hidden envelopes until they had located the entrance to the chamber and told me. Then they could try to find the envelopes. Once someone found an envelope, they had to open it in front of me, otherwise it wouldn't count. I would then re-hide the envelope in a new location. If the envelope contained what they needed (basilisk 1st, then diary) they would get 10 galleons and get to move on in the game. If not, they were petrified and out of the game. If all members of a team are petrified their team was out. The first team to find everything, without all of its members being petrified, wins 500 points for their house team and a special award for service to the school. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We are going to play the game this week. My students saw the writing on the wall after their last class on Friday and started freaking out because they were so excited. We are reading <i>Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets</i> in class now, so I think they were suspecting something like this, or at least hoping. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>Week 1:</i></b> <i>After a week of searching, all three of the houses have located the entrance to the Chamber of Secrets, but the Basilisk and Riddle's Diary are still out there. This challenge will continue into next week. If any of my students are reading this, you're not going to find any hints here! (-: </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b style="font-style: italic;">Week 3:</b> <i>This week the game was finally completed. Overall, four students were petrified. The teams were so close at the end. Two teams had found the Basilisk and were desperately searching for the other envelope in their freetime. The final team found the basilisk in the final moments, and a few minutes later another team (Hippogriff) found the Diary. I don't think the game would usually take this long, but I was very good at hiding the envelopes. My students said I must be the best hider in the world. Next time though, I won't hide things quite so well, so that we can finish the game a little more quickly. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This week I gave the students a quiz on the first two Harry Potter books (since those are the books we have read in class this year). I got all of the questions from <a href="http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/harrypotter/quiz.html" target="_blank">sparknotes</a>. I also added a few bonus questions to help ensure I'd only get one winner. The team with the highest average score on the quiz would receive 300 house points and the student with the highest score on the quiz would receive 10 galleons. This week marks the end of the month, so 300 points could mean the win for some teams. In case you were curious, here are the bonus questions below. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">1. What color was Albus Dumbledore's beard before it turned white?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">For this challenge I hid 24 dragon eggs (printed because I can't buy plastic eggs here) around the school. Each egg has a number on the back that corresponds to a list of prizes (listed below).</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">1: Wow, 100 house points, that was nice!</span></div>
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<span class="s1">4: Ooops that’s not a dragon egg, uh here’s your new owl?</span></div>
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<span class="s1">5: Imagine that, there is actually a dragon in this dragon egg, who would have thought? (Gummy Dragon)</span></div>
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<span class="s1">7: Are you a seeker, because you just found a golden candy snitch.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">8: There is a cushioning charm in there, how strange.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">9: Are you stuck? Take some U-No-Poo</span></div>
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<span class="s1">10: Switch…..jobs with someone…that was close!</span></div>
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12: Aw this one’s full of worms…three gummy worms that is!</span></div>
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<span class="s1">13: Who just found 3 galleons, this guy!<br />
14: Identity crisis the sorting hat suddenly realized it made a mistake, you’re re-sorted into a new house. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">16: You’ve worked hard, have a cup of tea.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">17: Your luck just changed, 100 house points. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">18: Your luck just changed, 100 house points.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">19: Ooops that’s not a dragon egg, uh here’s your new owl?</span></div>
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<span class="s1">20: Being positive will always makes you happy, that and 200 house points!</span></div>
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<span class="s1">21: Do you feel lucky? Take 4 Bertie Bott’s Beans and find out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>I have to admit I had an ulterior motive when I thought of this challenge. I just gave out the second house cup award this month, to the same team as last month. The teams were actually finished the same as the month before. So obviously the teams aren't as equal as I had hoped. The poor Dragons team is one man short and despite the strong point earners on the team, they came in last again. I thought this week I'd mix things up having a challenge that would allow me to switch a few students to new houses. Change is good right? We'll see...</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I planned for this to be a one week challenge, but then I got sick and was out most of the week. I only hid 6 eggs before I got sick and only one was found at the time (#7), setting off a frenzy of excitement. This week I'm going to hide the rest of the eggs and I'm sure the egg hunt is going to be a huge success.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We just finished the challenge and now begins Easter Break. All but one egg was found (just like a real egg hunt!).</span></div>
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<b style="font-size: xx-large;">Challenge #6: Umbridge's I</b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>nquisitorial Squad</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In this challenge all of my students decorated a little figure that would represent them and then hid it around the school. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I played the part of Professor Umbridge and was seeking out the students to make them join my Inquisitorial Squad. If I found the student's figure, I would secretly tell them they were now on my team and they would help me find the other student's figures. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I did this secretly so that no one would know who was on the Inquisitorial Squad and who was still in Dumbledore's Army. If your figure wasn't found by Friday the following week, you would earn 100 house points for your team.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">My students were able to come up with some very clever hiding spots for their figures. The first day I looked, I only managed to find one figure!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">By the end of the second week and deadline, my Inquisitorial Squad and I had managed to find all but four student figures and those kid's received 100 house points each. They then had to show me where they actually hid there figure so that they could prove it was not hidden in a location considered "out of bounds." </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Dum-dum lollipops are a rare treat in my classroom because you cannot buy them in this country. I have a bag of them in my cabinet and decided to give my students a very sneaky estimation challenge. They will get one quick peek into the cabinet on Monday and then will get to make one guess per day for a week of how many lollipops there are. The person will the closest estimate will get three lollipops of their choice. </span></div>
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