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October 3rd - October 16th, 2011

Watch
Let's Play videos
Rounding Numbers - BrainPOP
Money - BrainPOP
Sgt. Frog
Pucca
Beatles - BrainPOP
Adventure Time
Carbon Dating - BrainPOP

Play
Little Big Planet 2 - PS3 (w/ M & W)
WarioWare D.I.Y. - 3DS
Farkle - iPad (w/ M)

Read/Research
"Poon Trees" (Calophyllum)
MadLibs
Diary of a Wimpy Kid #2 Rodrick Rules
Diary of a Wimpy Kid #3 The Last Straw

Discuss
How ball point pens work
Hyperthermia
Occupy Wall Street (OWS)
Occupy Pittsburgh (OccupyPgh)
1% vs. 99%
Racial inequality in social movements like OccupyPgh & the world in general
Fashion

Looking Like Awesome

Write
MadLibs
Newspaper
Story

Listen
Voice recordings

Create
Voice recordings
MadLibs w/ W
Newspaper w/ W
Buttered Toast
Little Big Planet 2 level design
WarioWare D.I.Y. microgames
Illustrated story (marker on paper)

Go/Community
Burger King
Starbucks
Burgatory
Barnes & Noble Bookstore
Java House
Trader Joe's
East End Food Co-op

Health/PE/Safety
Helped in kitchen
Helped with grocery list
Made buttered toast
Ate a radish!
Talked about hyperthermia

Other
Explored some optical mind/brain benders

Does your brain hurt?

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