Wicked Weather Wednesday!!!

I hope that you all had fun at the Book Fair today!

Tonight's Homework:
- Climax Rough Draft
*BRING IN A PRINTED COPY! If your printer does not work, you MUST email it to me at cara.restaino@fpks.org or print it in the library before school.
*Remember! I'm looking for 7-10 MEATY sentences
- Make revisions to your wiki
*Bring in your personal reading book...we're going to the library tomorrow!

PLEASE NOTE!!
If we have a snow day, you will have your Unit 9 Vocab Test when we meet again!!!

Today's journal:
Do we learn more from our mistakes or our successes?

Though one might assume that learning happens more from mistakes, I believe that we learn more from successes than mistakes.  Successes validate our actions.  We learn that positive actions and reactions can result in positive consequences when we are successful.  Success also builds self-confidence.  I find that sometimes when someone makes a mistake, he or she cannot see the error of his or her ways.  Successes are easier to see.  When  I was in school, I learned this personally.  Math was always a struggle for me; however, once I began seeking extra help, I saw success.  Therefore, I learned that when I changed my behavior, the outcome changed in a positive way.  Unfortunately, though I had failed test after test, I had never changed my behavior before.  My success helped more than anything I did before.  Clearly, successes can be more educational than mistakes.