TGIF!!!

Ok, I'm not complaining about the long week because I've only been here 2 days of it!  But I am thankful for Friday because I love the weekends!!  Even though both our highschool boys and girls basketball teams got beat out, there are still games being played at Woodward for all the other teams still alive in our Area I.  Things still seem really busy too as we are fast approaching test dates.  We've all gotta stay focused and keep our hard hats on--keep plugging away and working!!  Hope everyone has a fun and restful weekend!!

7th English
*Since many students refused to be quiet while the "Word on the Street" was being announced, the entire class got to write the word, "dismal," along with it's: part of speech; definition; example used in a sentence; and word origin 10 times.  Then we took a pop quiz over the word and took grades on this quiz.  Most students were only able to write all of that information down about 7 or 8 times.  Hopefully, I got the class' attention. Maybe next Monday, they will be quiet and take notes when the "Word on the Street" is announced. 
*Spelling Test #23; Spelling Wb #23; and Vocab Wb #23 is all due on Monday.
*We will grade all of Break Away assignments from when I was gone on Monday as well.
*Book Reports are due Tues.

8th Lang. Arts
*Conservation Essays for the contest are due Monday.
*They handed in both sets of worksheets from when I was gone.  We will grade these after the Writing Test.  But we will discuss next week on how to incorporate some of those concepts from the worksheets into the students' writing. 
*On Monday we will start writing againg using various prompts and following all 4 steps of the Writing Process.
*Book Reports due Tuesday.
*Writing Test March 9-10.

Hey, It's Good to be Back at School Again!!

Gosh, it's been a whole week since my last blog!  We didn't have school last Friday.  Monday, I was at the Dewey County Stock Show.  Then Grace E. got sick and I've been home with her for the past two days!  It sounds crazy, I know, but I ACTUALLY MISSED SCHOOL!!!  I'm a people person, so when I'm cooped up in the house with a sick little one, I was really wishing I could be at school.  Sshhh!!  Don't let that get out.  People might accuse me of liking my job!!  LOL!

SEQUOYAH ORAL BOOK REPORTS DUE NEXT TUES. 3-1-2011  MUST GIVE ME TWO!!!

7th English
*DOL wk. #23 (1-6) and took quiz
*Spelling Wb #23, Vocab. Wb #23, and Spell. Test are all due tomo.
*All Break Away pages due tomo.  Pages 84-98.

8th Lang. Arts
*Both sets of worksheets are due tomo.
*Listened to oral book reports.
*Will start back with writing Monday.
*Writing Test March 9-10.

Wednesday--the Middle of a Crazy, Busy Week.

Congrats to all of the kids involved in the stock show last night.  Everyone did a great job.  A special get well shout out to Sheldon Rounds, who broke his ankle last night when his heifer went crazy while he had hold of the halter!!  Take care of yourself, Sheldon.  Also a big congratulations to Gabe for winning Reserve and Grand Champion Wether Goats!!  It helped that Gabe had the only two male goats for this division, but we won't focus on that minor detail.  :)  HS basketball boys play at Arnett at 3:00 for Regionals tomorrow and they play Hardesty.  Girls play Forgan at Arnett at 6:30.  Good luck to all.  We didn't have class today for the 7th or the 8th grade due to the Dewey County Spelling Bee.  Our kids did good.  A boy from Seiling took second while a boy from Taloga took first. 

Hello Beautiful Sunshine Day!!

What a beautiful sunshiny day!!  It is such a welcomed relief compared to last week!!  Check out yesterday's blog to see upcoming events for tomorrow and the rest of this week.  (I'm not for sure how you copy and paste on my blog or I would just repeat info!!)  Look for Gabe tonight at the Local Leedey Show with Cowboy and Pistol Pete.  Good Luck Gabe!!

                                                                             
                                                                       



7th English
*Journal
*DOL wk.#22 #3&4
*Graded p. 81 in BA
*Did and graded p. 82&83 in BA


8th Lang. Arts
*Went to Book Fair for 10 min.
*Started new prompt in BD p.199.  Must have pre-write and rough draft done by tomo.

Happy Valentine's Day!!

Cupid is in full force here in the halls of Leedey Schools.  The board room looks like a red, white, and pink explosion of flowers, candy, stuffed animals, and sweet nothings.  Hope everyone gets what they are expecting from  their sweethearts!  Congrats to the highschool boys and girls during Districts.  The girls were District Champs and the boys were runner's-up.  Both teams will advance to Regionals this week.  Great news for the 5th & 8th Graders--the State Writing Test has been post-poned until March 9-10.  They were scheduled for next Wed. Feb. 23rd.  I'm sure it's because of the days of school missed due to bad weather that the State Dept. of Ed has re-scheduled the tests.  Whatever the case, I am sooo glad.  I was starting to feel very scrunched for time!!  Dewey Co. Spelling Bee this Wed. at 9:30 a.m. in auditorium.  Five County Speech Contests tomorrow here at Leedey.  Local Leedey livestock show here tomorrow at 5:00.  Gabe gets to show his goats: Pistol Pete and Cowboy.  Yes, we are O-state fans!!  WHEW!!!  And it's just MONDAY!!!

7th English
*Journal
*DOL wk. 22
*Went over pre-test in B.A. p.77=Making Inferences and Drawing Conclusions.
*Discussed p. 79.
*Assigned p.80-81.  Due tomo.

8th Lang. Arts
*Announced changed date of state writing test.
*Let them have one more day to work on B.D. writing prompt assignment from Friday. Looked over some kids' first rough drafts.  Will look at others tomo on promethean board.

Basketball Playoffs Start Tonight!

Finally the snow is melting a little bit at a time.  The temperatures are supposed to go up, which is good news.  The farmers will appreciate all of the much needed moisture.  The weather is good enough here now that it won't affect Leedey hosting basketball playoffs tonight.  Don't forget to come out and support the Bison and Lady Bison as their quest for the gold ball begins later today.  Congrats to seventh graders Jacee Harrel for winning the local Leedey Spelling Bee yesterday and Emily Carmen for finishing second place.  Other spelling bee winners were: 5th grade=Chassidy Ray, second and Magen Fairchild, first;  6th grade=Riley Fairchild, second and Luke Ward, first;  7th grade=Emily Carmen, second and Jacee Harrel, first;  8th grade=Allison Paulsen, second and Morgan Hahn, first.  All eight of these students will compete in the Dewey County Spelling Bee next Wednesday at 9:30 a.m. here at the Leedey Auditorium.  Hope everyone has a great weekend!!

7th English
*Journal
*Took Spelling Test #21 and graded.
*Graded Spelling WB. #21
*Graded Vocab. Less. #21.
*Pre-test p. 77 in Break Away must be done by Mon.

8th Lang. Arts
*Did the writing prompt on p.206 in Buckle Down.  Pre-writing and rough draft due at end of hour.

Digging Out from all the Snow!!

My Goodness we certainly had a lot of snow!!  I guess I should be thankful we didn't have as much as some other towns up north.  We also had another day out of school for this wintery weather.  It's starting to become a weekly trend.  I don't know if it makes me happy or sad.  I guess that all depends on if we have to make the days up or not!  Districts start tomorrow.  Leedey is hosting Shattuck and Arnett.  Our boys play tomorrow night at 8:00 against Shattuck.  Our girls will play the winner between Arnett and Shattuck girls Saturday night at 6:30.  Come out and support both teams.  I wish both boys and girls all of the luck in Leedey as their journey to the "Big House" starts this weekend!!

7th English
*Journal
*DOL wk. #21 (3-6)
*Took DOL quiz #21and graded.
*Took the pre-test in Break Away=Making Inferences and Drawing Conclusions p.77


8th Lang. Arts
*Finished typing Final Copies of Conservation Essay Contest.  Due next Wed.
*Those that were finished read Sequoyah Books for book reports.

Hey Old Man Winter--Enough Already!!!

Brrrrrrr!!!  Enough with the cold windy weather!  But more is coming in tonight.  Uugh!!  The HS plays tonight at Seiling.  The GS games got canceled so they could move the HS games up to a 3:30 start time.  We are trying to get the games in before the 5-8 inches of snow starts to fall.  Today in both 7th & 8th grade, we did the class spelling bee.  Congrats to Emily for winning second place and to Jacee for winning first place in the 7th grade; Allison for winning second place and Morgan for winning first place in the 8th grade.  All four of these girls will participate in the Leedey Local Spelling Bee this Thursday during DEAR and enhancement time.

Marvelous Monday Gets the Week Started!!

Tonight there are JH ballgames at Hammon at 6:30.  I believe it is the last JH game of the season.  The 3&4 play in front of them at 4:30.  Good luck to all.  Congrats to the HS girls for winning the 270 Conf. Championship against Ft. Supply girls Saturday night at Arnett.  Our HS boys also won their game on Thursday.  Unfortunately, only the 5&6 boys were able to win at the Reydon Festival on Saturday.  The local Leedey Spelling Bee is scheduled for this Thursday, Feb. 10 during DEAR and Enhancement for the 5th -8th class winners.  The 7th & 8th grade are having their class bees tomorrow because of a music festival on Wednesday and potential bad weather coming in on Tuesday night.  I gave all students a list of 40 some words that I will use for the class bee.

7th English
*Journal
*DOL wk. #21
*Assigned Spell Less. #21 and Vocab Wb #21=due Friday.
*Discussed Spelling Bee for tomo.

8th Lang. Arts
*Discussed Spelling Bee for tomo.
*Typed Final Copy Conservation Essays.  Due Wednesday.

A Thursday that Feels Like Friday!!

Tonight is Parent-Teacher Conferences starting at 4:00.  We also have them tomorrow, so there is no school as conferences are scheduled from 9:00-12:00.  Yea!  No School tomorrow!!  So that's why this Thursday feels like Friday.

7th English
*Took Spell. Test #20 and graded.
*Graded Vocab WB #20.
*Graded Spell. WB. #20 p. 97
*Discussed grade sheets for PT conf.

8th Lang. Arts
*Graded Break Away p. 16-17.
*Discussed grade sheets for P.T. conf.
*Looked at 2nd Rough Drafts on Promethean Board and orally discussed them.

Way Too Cold!! BRRRRRRR!!!!!!

I'm not sure that I have ever experienced a wind chill like we are currently having.  It is -18 degrees according to my iPhone weather advisory.  That is some kind of cold!!  Unbelievable to the skin!!  It was nice having yesterday out from school, but too cold to do much of anything outside.  I did get caught up on work in my house and also caught a few extra Zzzz's, which is always appreciated.  Try to stay warm tonight!

7th English 
*Journal
*No DOL's this week.
*Went over AR points and everything else discussed during the Reading Rally Monday.
*Worked on Spelling and Vocab. both Less. #20.  Due tomorrow since there is no school Friday=PT Conf.

8th Lang. Arts
*Went over AR points and everything else discussed during the Reading Rally Monday.
*Graded Break Away "Sequencing."