Idiom

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☆ Say a mouthful
- Meaning: If you make an important, perceptive or lengthy remark, you say a mouthful.
 - Example: The customer said a mouthful when he gave the main reason for his dissatisfaction.
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Favorite Student - Alaa

" Tahani is one of the best students I ever met! she is in the ninth grade now and she has a special personality. She is a real leader, cares of her colleagues and TEACHER :) that's right!
Tahani is my right hand who helps and knows everything happens in the class! I always refer to her if I need to name certain students for certain purposes. When I had to take a medical leave, she organised the class as if I'm there. She also organizes our broadcast every morning and talks to students, All other 1400 students and teachers know her, she is a friend of many of them and I can tell all my family members know her! I know this girl will grow up strong and will keep going Insha'llah"

Favorite Student - Anwar

Tamer was the cleverest  sts in the class and can be described as  an entertainer. He was lovely person.  If you talk with him you will feel that this person is unusual because you find your needing and what you look for about with him he . He was in 10th grade when I taught him . He was a shy sts. and he was sensitive of humor or a joke . He was afraid of strangers,  but he took full marks in that year.and he won more competitions so I admire  him very much. Now he is a sciences  teacher in Saudi Arabia.           

Favorite Student - Fatima

 Dalal, one of my favorite  sts that can be described as  unforgettable has what we can call ( charisma), an orphan, three years older than her colleagues, extra D, she was in 3rd grade when I taught her, her teacher had to take sick leave for a week, she took the responsibility of the class, controlled everything, she even gave them Maths exams, corrected, marked the papers!! & sts were convinced that they were real exams!! In brief she was a great leader & I admired her very much. Finally  when she was in the 7th grade she  got married!!!!!!!!

Keisha

I remember the first time I saw Keisha - she was one of the students who was placed in a learning community, and I was teaching the psychology class they were all taking. It was a group of young African-American students who were at risk their first year in college. They had done poorly in high school, and didn't have really high entrance exams.  I was eager to meet with them the first day, although the room we had been assigned was very small. When I did enter the first day, I was bemused to find all 17 of them sitting in the dark, without much expression on their faces.
I gradually got most of them to wake up, after turning on the light and proceeding into the coursework. As always, I worked hard to engage them and didn't let them hide. There was one small young woman in the back though who just would not smile or participate. I assumed she had a bad attitude, but then chastised myself for giving in too easily. I learned her name was Keisha, and she became a special project of mine.
Keisha did her work, but did not talk in class at all. I began to worry about her actually, until the second week when I assigned them a unique homework assignment - they had to write me a letter introducing themselves to me, sharing whatever they liked. Most were short and friendly, but Keisha's was very long and detailed. She really opened up, and when I responded to their letters, she was very excited. I kept the letter writing activity going throughout the term, and Keisha proved herself to be a very reflective, poetic writer. Somewhere in the fifth week, when I complimented her on her superior work, Keisha smiled; a big beautiful smile, despite the very large gap between her teeth.  That self-conscious gap was what had kept her from smiling and interacting.
Keisha became quite active in the class and was a real leader. She also began to reach out to her other instructors and engaged them. By the end of the term, this painfully shy and introverted young woman went to two state conferences and presented with me on the techniques we had explored in the classroom, needless to say, she stole the show.  Keisha kept on flourishing and got a degree in computer science, making more money her first year than I was then making in my tenth year of my career. Keisha got a great job immediately out of school, and is doing what she loves. Along the way, she became a close friend of the family, and it was a real joy to watch her evolution.
I learned a lot from Keisha. I did not open her up, I was just in the right place in the right time giving her the trust she needed to do so.  No subject matter I taught her changed her life, maybe the strategies were useful, but she alone seized the opportunity to assert herself and chase down her dreams. As for me, I found out that small things sometimes yield big dividends.

Children Do As You Do

Your child\ student watches you to get clues on how to behave in the world. You’re her \ his role model, so use your own behavior to guide them.What you do is often much more important than what you say. If you want them to say ‘please’, say it yourself. If you don’t want  them to raise their voice, speak quietly and gently yourself.

Seven Habits

I'd like to start our new activity ( Let's read a book together) with Steven R Coney's book ( The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People )
 Take your time to read it (u have a week) u can share your comments & ideas about the book, the auther.......
 The Arabic translation is available if you like to read it!