Thanksgiving Day Race

~Congratulations to Adam Fordenbacher.  He finished in 5th place out of 67 kids in his age group with a time of 32:24 in the Thanksgiving 6K Race in Mandarin early on Thanksgiving morning.  

~Congratulations to Ethan Runyan who placed 9th out of 63 runners with a time of 28:18.  Ethan was by far the youngest in his group and still finished in the top 10!

~Grace Bouchard finished 4th out of 46 in her age group with a time of 28:32! WOW!

Awesome Thanksgiving!

~Thanks to everyone who came out to celebrate Thanksgiving with us!  The food was incredible!  Big thanks to Bono's on Merrill Road for cooking our meat and delivering it!  We had way way too much food.  The Mission Shelter on Shetter Ave was very grateful for our leftovers!

5K for Play T-shirt Contest

~Here are the entries from Room 11 for the 5K for Play Race T-shirt!  These look good!

Fred Small's Denmark, 1943

In Additon to Jackie Robinson.....

~As we are learning about Sports in America and Jackie Robinson, we are also learning about something else that happened at the same time in America and Europe, WWII and the Holocaust!  In our literature circles we are learning about how brave the Danes were and how the entire nation stood behind the principle of fairness. Today we brought our groups together to share Annemarie and Ellen and their friendship.

STAR Student

~Congratulations to Kaylee and Davyn!  They are this week's STAR Students!  they both worked hard this week ans got along well with their classmates!

Thanksgiving Tuesday

~Thanksgiving invitations went out today!  Please, please, please, return them tomorrow so we know how much meat to cook!  If you are unable to attend or prepare a side dish please let us know so we can ask another parent to cook two items to make up the difference.

Literature Circle

 ~We are loving Annemarie and Ellen!  they are really good friends.  Annemarie already saved her life once!  Will she have to be brave again?

Mini Bio: Jackie Robinson

Tribute to the Danes of 1943

Roughly 200 Jews were arrested and taken away on the Jewish New year in 1943.  The more then 7,00 other Jews of Copenhagen were hidden and escorted over to Sweden.  Their homes and pets were taken care of until the war was over.  Were Ellen and her parents saved or were they victims?

This is a song of tribute to the Danish people who helped over 7,000 Jews escape the Nazi arrests and concentration camps:

Denmark, 1943
By Fred Small
And it's Eichmann and Himmler are turning the screws
The Fuhrer they say grows impatient
"How can it be Denmark's Jews still walk free
After three years of kind occupation?
We will take them like sheep in their beds as they sleep
On the second night of their new year
Devoutly at home they'll be helpless alone
When they cry out no one will hear"

But Duckwitz the German tells Hedtoft the Dane
"My friend I have dangerous news
In three hours the transport ships will set at anchor
You must warn them warn all the Jews"
Soon good Rabbi Melchior stands in the synagogue
"There'll be no service today
The raids come tomorrow, dwell not on your sorrow
By nightfall we must be away"

[Chorus]
And it's fire up the diesel and look out for swells
We're leaving Espergaerde behind us
Who strike at our friends strike us as well
We'll pray the patrol boats don't find us
When the sirens are wailing and shouts fill the night
Never will you stand alone
So it's over the Oresund
Till the day we can welcome you home

Sompolinski the tailor on the eve of Rosh Hashana
Gathers his family near
"The Lord is my light and salvation
Whom on this earth shall I fear?"
When a young Danish gentile steps into the glow
Of the candle with tears flowing down
"Good neighbors flee - I pray you believe me"
And as quickly the young man is gone

Christian policemen, shopkeepers, and teachers
Tell their friends of the quickening storm
While students on bicycles race through the streets
Searching for Jews to be warned
And Katlev the foreman blurts out to the trainman
"My family has no place to hide"
"Well bring 'em to my house," the stranger replies
"And we'll spit in the darn Nazi's eyes"

[Chorus]

Ellen Nielsen the fishwife in the port of Dragør
Has no use for political views
She'll call out the catch, "Fresh salmon, fresh cod"
Comes a whisper "Please help, we are Jews"
"But if you are Jews you're not safe on the street
I know a man with a sail"
Till moonrise they sleep in the shade of her eaves
And escape on the fisherman's keel

Rabbi Melchior hires a young trawlerman
To ferry his family across
After twelve hours afloat in a scurfy old boat
Morning light shows the same Danish coast
Says the skipper "I'm afraid of the German blockade
So we've motored in circles around"
The rabbi gives a shout, with one blow knocks him out
And steers a straight line 'cross the sound

Frozen with fright in the October night
Families huddle in basements and barns
Mistaking each breath for the angel of death
The Gestapo, the shot, the alarm
Then down into the hold with the stench and the cold
And drug all the babies with schnapps
Someone shouts, "Valkömmen till Sverige
You are in Swedish waters at last"

Seven thousands of Jews smuggled over to Sweden
By fishermen, nurses, and priests
Hitler sends Eichmann to hunt them down
But his quarry have vanished like mist
When the war's over the Jews return
Cheers and flowers adorn their way home
"We're not heroes or martyrs," so say the Danes
"We were just looking after our own"

[Chorus]

And today we will welcome you home
And today we welcome you home  

Victory over Europe May 8, 1945

V

Silly String Party

~Big thanks to the PTA for the Silly Sting Party!  We won 2nd Place in the Box Tops Contest!  Great job Room 11 & 13! We plan on winning 1st place next time!  Send in your boxtops.... the Apes earn $1 in their class accounts for every 5 boxtops brought in!

Principal Ice-cream Sundae

 ~We raised over 10,000 dollars in our Run/Walkathon!  Therefore, Mrs. Manabat had to become a Human Ice-Cream Sundae!  Our own Kyleen got to put chocolate and drop ice-cream and springs on her head!  A great time was had by everyone!

Star Students 11-13-15

~Congratulations to Jade and Natalija!  They are this week's STAR Students!  Both girls work hard, stay out of trouble and make us proud every day!

Thanksgiving Pies

~Notices went home today for pies from Cinotti's for Thanksgiving.  San Pablo gets $5 from every pie...and they are DELICIOUS!  return your form with payment as soon as possible. Pies will be delivered on Tuesday the 24th!

King Christian and the Resistance

King Christian X

 ~Brave King Christian riding through Copenhagen, Denmark on Jubilee to give his people strength.  His refusal to stay in Amalienborg was an act of resistance..... his greatest act of resistance is yet to come!

Thanksgiving Dinner

~Come have Thanksgiving Dinner on Tuesday November 24th at 11:30!  Mr. Gibbons and Mrs. Goodman will provide the meat.  We need you to provide the fixings, desserts etc.....  We will send home an invitation next week with what we need you to bring. (So we do not have 12 people bringing Mac & Cheese... although one can never have enough Mac & Cheese.....)  There should be roughly 75 people attending.  We need you to bring enough of whatever we ask.....  for 25 people.  See you on the 24th!  Rumor has it that this year's parents are really good cooks!

Veteran's Day

Happy Veteran/s Day... please take a moment to think about the great country we live and and remember those who sacrificed for our great nation!  Below are pictures of  my brother Thomas F. Gibbons Jr., and friend Jill Royster Berry.  My brother served for over 20 years in the United States Air Force during the Cold War, and Jill served in Operation Desert Storm in the early 1990's.  Jill is the breast cancer survivor  that donated all those shirts to us.  We spoke to her on FaceTime a few weeks ago.  THANKS TO ALL VETERANS FOR THEIR SERVICE.

San Pablo Track Meet

~Meet the new members of the San Pablo 5K Club (competitive running)!  They are preparing to run the San Pablo Track Meet on December 12th.  Registration is free! If you would like to run on the 12th....anyone can run in the meet, click HERE for registration forms.

Trading in Pirate Bucks

~Bring it to the school office and they will use it in the school store for kids to trade in their Pirate Bucks (Manabucks)

Social Studies Quiz

~Due to No School on Wednesday of this coming week, and the Gifted children being gone on Tuesday, the Social Studies Quiz will be on Thursday the 12th!

Walk/Runathon Winners!

~Congratulations to Kyleen and Grace. They raised the most money for our Walk/Run-athon and had lunch with our principal supplied by Bono's!  Room 11 also came in first place for the most laps during the Run/walk-athon!

~The Apes of Room 11 aso came in 2nd place in the Box Top Collection competition!  We won a Silly String Party this coming Monday!  Thanks for sending in the boxtops, it raises a lot of money for our school!

STAR Students

~Congratulations to Christian ana Charlie.  They are this week's STAR Students.  They both worked hard this week and deserved to be recognized!

Mini Bio: Jackie Robinson

Carl Lewis winning Four Gold Medals at the Olympic Games 1984!

~Carl Lewis - the only Olympian to ever match the feat of Jesse Owens at the Berlin Olympics of 1936!

Connection Section - Blitzkrieg- WWII Begins!

Gallery Walk

 ~We walked through our "gallery" of famous sports poster, photographs and propaganda.  Each poster in its own way was conveying the importance of sports in America.  Each source had something to say!

Sports in America Tea Party

 ~It was Tea Time in Room 11, so we decided to discuss famous quotes from famous Americans on Sports in our culture...over tea.  We discussed quotes from JFK, Venus Williams, all the way to Hippocrates!

Fall Ball

 ~Thanks to everyone who came out and supported San Pablo's Fall Ball!  Big thanks to the Safety Patrol Moms for all the work they put in to make this event happen!