The Notebook

A book I’ve recently read is The Notebook. I’ve seen the movie several times, but someone suggested I read the book. When I began reading the book, I absolutely could not put it down. The movie was awesome but the book is even better because it offers more detail in scences the movie omits. The Notebook is a story about a women who is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease and writes the story of her life for her husband to read to her in hopes of remembering the life she has lived. The husband remains faithful to his “sweetheart” throughout her battle with the disease, reading the story she wrote (of her life) daily to her.

The story begins with them finding each other over a summer, falling in love and then being torn apart by Allie’s (the woman) parents. Allie eventually becomes engaged to another man. After a coincidental reunion with Noah, Allie rekindles the romance with him and breaks off her engagement to the other man. Noah and Allie eventually marry and start a family of their own. After years of happiness, Allie is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease and immediately begins writing her life story for her husband to read her. This is where the title The Notebook comes from-Allie’s notebook she composed full of stories from her life.

This book was absolutely one of the best I’ve ever read. At the end of the story, Allie loses her battle to Alzheimer’s and the last 10 pages of my book are wrinkled due to the tears I shed. This story is such a great symbol for what a marriage should be…staying with your spouse and loving them til death do you part. I recommend the reading of this story to anyone-even guys who despise “chick” books :)!

Thanksgiving Break

So...this week will be the first time I've had a break from school since Labor Day (we did not get out for AEA) and I'm really looking foward to sleeping in and relaxing for a few days! We only go for two days, so we are doing fun activities for those two days....a chemistry scavenger hunt and a video on the reactivity of sodium (which is very interesting). The video demonstrates explosions with the element sodium. My students have asked me all year if "we can blow something up" and of course my response is "no thank you," so I searched and found this video for them to watch things blow up safely! Anyways....I hope you all have a very awesome Thanksgiving and enjoy your break!

Halloween Slime

So Friday was Halloween and to celebrate it "educational" I had my students make slime. They absolutely loved it and they actually saw how making it was related to chemistry. We used the bunsen burners to boil our water, then added borax, water, glue and food coloring to make it slimey. I wish I had pictures to post of them creating it, but I forgot my camera that day :(! After we got all cleaned up from a slimey mess, we passed around different halloween treats and determined whether they were heterogeneous or homogeneous mixtures. I felt this was a great way to have fun for halloween, as well as, conduct a lesson relating to chemistry!