Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Post #2 - The Last Lecture

Ladies and Gentlemen,

VR is virtual reality. He is a computer scientist who creates virtual worlds for different groups of people. He has worked for Disney and many other video game companies. Do you think you would like to have that job?

Did you hear what he said about "not setting the bar?" He means that sometimes, teachers have a certain set of expectations. Students rise to the level of expectation. You have taught me the same lesson this year. I learned this year that the students at East are capable of ANYTHING. If I "set the bar" you all continually do more than I expect...

What do you think I should expect for next year?

What do you expect for next year in middle school?

What kinds of things do you think next year's fifth graders will do?

~ Mr. Moore

49 comments:

Anonymous said...

Dear Mr.Moore
I think that the 5th graders next year will do the same thing as us. Then they will answer some questions.
Ruben T

Anonymous said...

Dear Mr.M,
I think this guy is very funny but I also think that we might use this same technology in 6th grade witch might be really cool and I also think that the future 5th graders are going to be glad that they might be able to us these specaial things.
From,
Jonathan

Anonymous said...

Dear Mr. Moore,
I think that you should expect for next year, is that you would have to yell more them this year.

I think that I should expect next year, is that there would by harder them this year and that you have to do your best every day.

I think that they would look to is the awesome teacher and the field trips.

~Elsad

Anonymous said...

Dear Mr.Moore,

I don't know what you should expect for next year because my cousins are going to be in 5th grade in east next year and they are crazy. I want to expect something about middle school and then fell bad because it is not true what I thought would be like.

Denisse

Anonymous said...

Dear Mr. Moore,
I think as my last lecture in middle school I would game with bunnies that want a new world and make a world and then
have to delete it the bunnies would be like curses to you.
Andrew

Anonymous said...

Dear Mr.Moore I think that I now think the next years 5th graders should deservethe same fun as we did cause they saw us so exieded when the end of the goingt he end of the year.

~ from karla

Anonymous said...

Dear Mr. Moore,
I can answer your question, 'He has worked for Disney and many other companies. Do you think you would like to have that job?' Here is my answer: I would love to have that job. I have always thought that, that would be a very cool job. I could make which ever cartoons that I wanted. I So yes I would love to have that job.

~Kaylee

Anonymous said...

Dear Mr.Moore,
As I was Reading the new post I saw the question that said if I would like the job that he had, and I would say yes. The reason why I would say yes is because many people don't get to have as much Like he did, and also because you can create your own little world that you want to live in.
*Angelica C

Anonymous said...

Dear Mr. Moore,
I don't think I would like to have a VR job because I don't like video games and I think they are a useless waste of time. Next year you should expect the kids to be hard to deal with at first. After awhile, they will learn how to work above and beyond. Next year, I expect work to be harder after awhile and for us to have a lot more work. The fifth graders next year, will probably end up doing work that is just above and beyond. They will work so hard because they know how hard you work for them and how much you believe in them. I remember that my cousin was expecting to hate middle school so much. Now she loves it and she can't wait to see what seventh grade holds in store for her. Life can be suprising and at times when you least expect it, you will be suprised. The whole world is suprised almost everyday because of the changes in the world and what people are doing nowadays because of technology and what we have created as a big, huge family. Al we hav done has an effect on the world and your expectations really take a big part in making things improve.
Sincerely,
Cheyanne

Anonymous said...

Mr.Moore
I think that the 5th graders will do the same thing as us then they will do the same questions as us.
Ruben T

Anonymous said...

Dear Mr. Moore,

For next year, you should expect us to be able to blow your mind away, and to be able to do division facts in under 2 minutes, because you and Ms. VanderVelde have been two awesome teachers, have taught us how to put ourselves into the characters shoes to be able to see both pints of view, and both of you have been really great with encouraging us to learn our facts, by telling us that life will be much easier if we know them like we know our name.
For next year, I expect to have the smarrt board and the little laptops in classes because we have shown as 5th graders that we can be trusted on the computers, and that they have been a big part of our path to success with our writing.
I think that next years fifth graders will be able to have the same expierience that we have had and I think that they will be able to go to Cal-Wood and feel the nature air and all the surprises that it can throw at you.

Admira

P.S. You and Ms VanderVelde are THE BEST AND BIGGEST PART OF OUR SUCCESS!!!!!

Anonymous said...

Dear Mr.Moore,
I think that I don't want the VR job because I get really tired when I get on a computer for too long just like last night, I felt so tired doing my IGR that I fell asleep at 6:30.

From,
Ben

Anonymous said...

Dear Mr.Moore,

I think that you should probably expect hard work,respectful learner,and be helpful to other people.The best thing you should expect is all that you have taught us.Also the things Ms.V has taught us in many things.
Sincerely,Emiliano

Anonymous said...

Dear Mr. Moore,
One thing I want to say is-'Wow! That is SO cool! And funny!'
I'll answer the questions.
I think I will enjoy this job. But I think it'll be more fun to experience the VR world. I would make it so you would meet celebrities. A LOT of girls would like that-I would.
I think you shouldn't expect next year's fifth graders to be PERFECT, so I don't think you should get your hopes up. But do know that they are good students, but they might do things that might disappoint you. The thing I want to say is, "Nobody's perfect."
What do you expect for next year in middle school? I expect fabulous lockers, and a new, cool schedule. But I also expect loads of homework and bullies. I also expect to be nervous, nervous for the brand new things that are awaiting me.
I think next year's fifth graders will probably do all the things WE did, but I think there will be more cool projects to do. Such as making videos to post on the blog. Maybe chat with kids around the world, with their pen pal. That'll be cool. It kind of makes me jealous. Well, I hope they will have a good time and enjoy 5th grade, just like I did.

{Narah}

Anonymous said...

Dear Mr. Moore,

The answer to the first question is yes. I would like to have the job that some of the people have. I would like to work for a video game company because I think that we would get a lot of business and since I like video games maybe I would be able to make a video game.

Jeffrey

Anonymous said...

Dear Mr.Moore and Mrs.V,
n mor year I think the kids will do almost the samething we had but will have more time to work on the blog and learn more u will learn alot with both of you because you tag and readinught us a lot of things in writing and every subject.But because we are going to be in middle school it will be tough and a hard thing to do.

Sincerely,
Richard

Anonymous said...

I would like to have that computer job because I like video and stuff like that. I think that you should expect us to live up to are expectations that some of us told you and promised that we would do. I expect that middle school will be fun and scary. The reason I say that it is going to be scary is that the rumors and television that say that they will put someone in a locker but I am not worried about that because my teacher says that that stuff is no true so that was also the happy part.
Manuel

Anonymous said...

Dear Mr. Moore
The first question you had was what do I think about next year of the fourth graders. I think the are going to be similar to the class of 2008 through 2009.The second question you had was what do we think of middle school next year. Everybody thinks it would be scary. I don't.Because I was scared of fifth grade. And it was not so bad. So I expect the same thing. The final question you had was what do you think the next fifth graders will be. Like I said before I think they will be the same as fifth graders now.
~Dzenad

Anonymous said...

Dear Mr. Moore,

I do not think that I would want to be a VR because I do not think that I would like to create virtual worlds, but if I would be working with computers I would be creating new programs for computers. I think that you should expect a lot from the new fifth graders because they have had time to work with the computers so, they have already gotten through the easy stuf so now you can get right into that hard stuf that we started learning in about the middle of the year.

Nathan

Anonymous said...

Dear Mr. Moore,
I will expect middle school to be so much different from elementary school because we won't have as much activities as we do now, such as field day and recess. However I still hope that we will have eee's. The things that I think that the next years fifth grade class will do pretty much the same thing that we did but maybe they will go on more field trips. If I had the job of virtual reality I think that i would like it. because I like to create things.I think that creating a virtual world on the computer would be fun because you could design it however you would want. I would do it anytime i got board.

~Torsha

Anonymous said...

Dear Mr.Moore and Miss.VanderVelde,
Here are the questions and here are my answers:

Do you think you would like to have that job?
I think that I would not like to have this job because I have different dreams. If I did not have dreams I think I would because you could make up many things. This reminds me of an author because an author can make up books and what there going to be about.

What do you think I should expect for next year?
I think that you should except students to know what to do because there using computers in fourth grade. This reminds me of when we get older because we go into different grades and we expect to learn different things everyday.

What do you expect for next year in middle school?
I would expect for middle school to be harder because we will not use computers always. This reminds me of when you are just going into kindergarten because there days are going to be different. They will not be the same as before.

What kinds of things do you think next year's fifth graders will do?
I think that they will do the same thing as us because there going to be in the same grade as we were. This reminds me of when I was in fourth grade because I thought we would go to the computer lab to use computers. I was wrong because we got to have our own Eee Computers.
From,
Mirican

Anonymous said...

Dear Mr, Moore,
I think I wouldn't like that job because it hurts your eyes a lot when your on the computer. I think what you should expect for next year is that there would be kids maybe just like us like great writers. Next year what we should look out for its going to be hard for us we will learn more and interesting things.
From,
Anna Karen

Anonymous said...

Dear Mr. Moore,

P.S. I think that you should show the new fifth graders this video first so that they will know that they can accomplish most of what you put your mind to.

Nathan

Anonymous said...

Dear Mr.Moore,

I think that I would not have this job because it would be kind of boring be on a computer for 24 hours.Making a video game software thing in the dark.I would probably do something else rather than this.
Sincerely,Emiliano

Anonymous said...

Dear Ms.V ,

get I think school is school and I'm not going start judge but this was the best year i ever had when i get my last lecture is i am going to add my year here and how much i love to learn with are eee and to send your kids this school and when your get in 5th you will never forget year like i never forgot mine.

Love Ashley

Anonymous said...

Dear Mr. Moore,
I think that the teachers for next year, are going to set the bar even higher but I believe that we are capable of anything and that we will jump over the bar and we will need to be set a higher expectation than that one. I really do believe that we will have some new challenges on the way and that we might not even have experienced it before. I really do think that we have brought a new level of kids that we will be the kids to be the best. We want to be the next kids of the century and we are the kids of the future.
One thing that you should expect for next year is that they should be able to be as good as we were because I think that we should be as good as the kids who are in 6th grade right now. I think that you should set the bar as high as you did for us. Like I said we are expected to do something we do it and we need for someone to. I think that the kids next year dont know whats coming because they don't know what is going to happen perhaps their teacher might put things easyer or they might do thing harder than they did for us and for me that would be very lucky because the more you learn the better it is going to help you in life and I don't want to end up somewhere that I didn't want to be.

Iratny 8-}

Anonymous said...

Dear Mr.Moore,
I also saw this question that said What do you expect next year in middle school? What I expect next year in middle school is to have the laptops. The reason why I expect to have the laptops next year is because if we don't have them I won't be able to wright as much as I do right now. I also hope that I well have a lot of fun in Euclid and to make a lot of friends.
*Angelica C

Anonymous said...

Dear Mr. Moore,

The thing I would look for during middle school is being in the same classes as my friends maybe using the triple laptops every day and maybe even get the saxophone for bamd.

Jeffrey

Anonymous said...

Dear Mr.M,
I think next year you should expect the fourth graders already knowing how to use the computers because this year they were useing the black computers and these are the same thing but these are white andn those are black yeah so it has some other stuff but who cares there still the same.
From,
Jonathan

Anonymous said...

Dear Mr. Moore,
I think that you should expect that the next fifth graders would do as great as we did.
I expect that middle school will be hard and that we should be able to make you cry because we would improve.


What kinds of things do you think next year's fifth graders will do?I think that they should be as good as us(but not better than us) and that they will do great.
I don't thing that I would want to be what this man is but I think that it would be cool.
Dominique

Anonymous said...

Dear Mr.Moore,

The things I would probably expect for next year in middle are probably going to be hard.Like we would work twice as hard be doing the stuff you should.Many people would be on their seat working fast but hard and neatly.
Sincerely,Emiliano

Anonymous said...

Dear Mr.Moore

I think that the next year fifth graders will do the same things that we do but better and awesomer

From,
Ben

Anonymous said...

Dear Mr.Moore
I think that I would want to be a VR because may be I will get the chance to work with Disney.And may be I will work with some one els to.

-Emanuel-

Anonymous said...

Dear Nathan,
I think that Mr.Moore and Ms.V should show this video first, because that way the kids are ready to put there mind on what they want to complete.
*Angelica C

Anonymous said...

Dear Mr. Moore,
I think that I would want to have the VR job because
I love to work with computers and create games
because it is fun. If you go to fusionfall.com you can create your own
world it is so fun to because you feel like you are the
character and it feels weird. It is like the VR job and you can make your character
look like a stupid bunny with horns and it is fun.
Andrew

Anonymous said...

Dear Mr. Moore,
I can answer your question, 'What do you expect for next year in middle school ?' I expect many things in middle school, but here are a few things that I expect. One thing that I expect is having some teachers that I like and some teachers that I don't really like. I know this because my sister has some teachers that she likes a lot and she also has some teachers that she doesn't like. I technically only have two teachers and I like them both. In middle school you usually have more then two or three teachers and there is more of a chance that I won't like them.


~Kaylee

Anonymous said...

Dear Mr. Moore,

I think that you should expect more from next years 5th graders. I'm saying this because kids should be learning more as more time goes by because more technology is being made as time goes on.

I expect the teachers to expect even more from me than this year. I'm expecting this because most of the teachers from next year have seen us work in the classroom.

Arturo*

Anonymous said...

Dear Mr. Moore,
I think that you should expect great effort next year because in fifth grade fifth graders worked really hard and they tried there best. I also think that you expect that we try our best and that we learn new things. I expect to do a good job on all the subjects and I also expect that I learn new things that I did not know when I came to sixth grade. I also expect to do different things and that we will not do the same things that we did in elementary school. I think that fifth graders will do really cool things like dissecting a cows eye and a pigs heart. I also think that fifth graders will learn about what we did. For example we learned about the life cycles of a star and we also learned about the Revolutionary War. I think that fifth graders will learn as many things as we did and that they will enjoy learning new things that they did not know before. I think that they will also learn things that we did not learn before. I think that fifth graders will like learning as much as we did.
Chantel

Anonymous said...

Dear Mr.Moore

I think next year I won't have enough fun but I will meet new people like friends and still get with my old friends but it won't be fun because no more resses, no more fun things, and no more seeing people a lot.

From,
Ben

Anonymous said...

Dear Mr.Moore,
I think that I am going to change my mind to make video games and more stuff that kids love.And I think that it is fair that kids has all that stuff and and they can spend time playing a little with their families or friends or neighbors or anybody that you like to play with and when I go to Middle School I will try to learn more and then when I grow up then I know what to do and how to make them then I will make the life so fun for the kids and maybe the whole world would make the life so fun and I will be so happy that I did that and well I wish my best friend Denisse would change her mind and be working with me and maybe Karla too I want her to change her mind too to work with us or only me because maybe my best friend will say no to work with me. And I think that is all that I can say about this story that I need to make and I wish what I am saying I wnt them to come true and to help people.

Your Friend,
Viridiana

Anonymous said...

Dear Mr.Moore,
For next year you should expect a new generation of learners.Not just any learners but the future learners that will be the ones who learn different.Though it maybe just another year of kids you know that they will become the future.I really would expect the new kids to be a little easier.
Sincerely,
Ruben.z

Anonymous said...

Dear Mr. Moore,

I think that you should expect for next year is that you would probably have to make more rules because they are way more wild.

I think that I should expect next year is that the teachers are going to be more strict and maybe way more mean.

I think that the fourth grader can expect a wonderful experience. I have!

<3 Angelica U.

Anonymous said...

Dear Mr. Moore,
What I think that I should expect from next year would be that I would have a lot of homework and I would have to work harder and think more learner more so I can be someone in life.On the other hand What I think that I should expect next year would be that I would do more stuffed and harder stuffed.The kind of think that next year fifth grade would be are that they are propertly going th do the same things as us but they are going to add a little more things.

Sincerly,
Evelin

Anonymous said...

Dear Mr. Moore,
I think the fifth graders next year will do somethings that we do now and also somethings that we didn't do this year. I know that they are going to Cal-Wood, they are going on the surprise field trip at the end of the year, and they are having field day. Somethings that I think they are going to do next year that we didn't do this year is, go to Cal-Wood for an extra day, go on a different field trip then what we did. Those are the things that I think the fifth graders next year are going to do.


~Kaylee

Anonymous said...

Dear Mr. Moore,
I think that you expect for next year is of course another group of students. But what you should also expect next year, are more kids of the future. They will also be like us. But, the only thing different is that they will be you 2nd 5th grade class that both you and Ms. V will teach.

I expect next year to be very different. We will have totally different lunch and also, we have to walk to different classes. We will also have lockers instead of backpacks. Next year will be nothing like elementary school.

The kind of things that 5th graders will do is they will use the Triple es and all of that cool stuff. They might do different things for what they learn as well.
From,
Jody

Anonymous said...

Dear Mr.Moore,
In middle school I think the teachers will have higher expectations and will not take oops I forgot it.I know for a fact that the brand new teachers will be even tougher than Mr.Moore.I know you think I'm kidding about that the new teachers will be more strict than Mr.Moore.Even though Mr.Moore is the strictest teacher.I also think that we should not just think that it's going to be just another year of school it's not.Though many kids have heard that in middle school kids get stuffed into lockers that's a lie.Because the thing is the kids that stuff you in lockers are most likely be in detention.And don't worry because only one kid in every two schools are going to be bullies.
Sincerely,
Ruben.z

Anonymous said...

Dear Mr. Moore,
I would love to have a job working with VR. That video that we saw was funny. Working with VR would be fun because in the virtual reality they respond to you. I had a game that was call Sims and it was fun because you could eat, sleep, and do all the other stuff in real life. I want to create something like that.
From,
Sophia

Anonymous said...

Dear Mr.Moore,
I would not like to work a a professor but as a inventor.Also nex.zt year I would expect the new fifth graders to be smarter.I would also expect them to be better.
Sincerely,
Ruben

Anonymous said...

Dear Future 5th graders,

If you think it's all fun and games in 5th grade well think again. You work hard and learn new things. Learning is fun but if you don't your not going to be able to pass 5th grade you will just be laghfed at and made fun of. So I recomend you stand up and work hard for your school and friends. Work hard and stay in school so you don't get left behind.