Today Rebecca's grade at Entz hosted what they call the Wax Museum. The kids dress up and famous Arizonans and sit still until someone swipes a pretend credit card on the table next them. Then they would "come to life" like an animatronic at Disneyland and recite facts about that person. At the end they go back to being frozen until another person swipes their card. Rebecca was Nellie Cashman. She owned several mines and restaurants, she was also a nurse. She became famous when she lead a rescue party to save 17 miners trapped in a winter storm. She lived in Tombstone at the same time as Wyatt Earp and got the town to cancel an event planned at a hanging because she felt no loss of life should be celebrated. Anyone Rebecca did a great job reciting her lines from memory. Some kids read off of a card but she had hers down.
Today at Heritage things went much better today. Earl Taylor, the principal, spoke to my second period class. I also apologized for not listening better when they had concerns. The behavior today was much better. It's not clear yet that we're out of the woods but this was the best behaved this class has been and we've had good days before. They asked me to please give real world applications and to not go so fast over some of the material. Now I just need to do that and hope we can stay this friendly the rest of the semester.
Once again Rebecca makes us proud of her many talents. We still remember her by-heart recitation of her part in our little family Christmas pageant
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