Baseball and Softball Districts This Week

Highschool baseball and softball districts start this week.  The girls actually play today at Vici, while the boys start Thursday at Cimarron. Good luck to both teams in their quest for State Tourney!!
 The JH baseball boys play their last game tonight here.  The JH softball girls finished last week. 

In class today, we wrote in our journals about having a super power.  Next we graded the Unit One Vocab Test P.33-40 in their vocab wb.  Finally we discussed in our Write Source textbook p.17-21, which was about Linda's first, second, and third revisions of her rough draft.We did the "Try It" on p.17 for a grade.

Vocab Less.#7 due Thursday.  Quiz on Friday.

Thursday That Feels Like Friday!!!

Even though today is Thursday, it really felt like Friday b/c we have no school tomorrow due to P.T. Conf. from 9:00-noon.  We also have them tonight from 4-8.  Hope parents can attend either day, as communication between teacher, student, and parent is vital to overall success.  It's nice having another 4 day week--well almost.  I guess really 4.5 days for us teachers.  lol  :)
 And I must comment on the rain.  Love the rain!!!  We needed it so badly.  Plus the cooler temps--just wonderful.  I'm truthfully excited about running tomorrow morning in 50ish degree weather.  I've been so sick of the heat!!

Today in 8th English we graded our Vocab wb less. #6.  We also worked on and hopefully finished our Article of the Week partner project with the reflective paragraph at the end.  It is due Monday.

I assigned the Unit 1 Vocab Tests 1-4 (p.33-40.)  Due Monday.

Don't forget to be reading.  Each student must give me two oral book reports over a book of their choice before this 9wk grading period is up.  Not very many have even given me one book report yet!!  Uh-oh. 

Have a great 3 day weekend!!!!!

Learning the Writing Process

In class today, we continued with learning the Writing Process from our Write Source textbooks (p.9-17).  Yesterday we discussed pre-writing and how to get ideas about our topic.  Today we organized those ideas and learned how to write our first rough draft.  We are going through one writer's process, fictitional Linda, as she writes a personal narrative over an experince she had last summer on the Freedom Schooner Amistad.  We did "Try It" on p.16 and turned it in for a grade.



Get Monday Done Right!!!

If you want to get your week started off on the right note, it's important to look forward to Monday and get it done right!!  I had a great day today, and it started out with waking up early to run, which is a challenge, but always puts me in a positive mood for the day.  Time flew by today, but I was able to get a lot of "rat killing" done so to speak.  That always makes a person feel good.  And I got my Monday done right!! :)

Today in class we did our Journal—Sept. is Nat. Self-Improvement Month.  Name 3 ways you could improve yourself.

Then we discussed “One Writer’s Process” p.9-17 from textbook.  We did all of the “Try It’s” on p.12, 13, and 14, which mostly dealt with the Pre-Writing step of the Writing Process. Handed those in for a grade. Will continue tomo with “Try It’s” on p.15, 16, & 17.

I LOVE FRIDAYS!!!!!!!

Yea!!!!!  Finally Friday and for this only being a 4 day week, it really trudged along.  Seemed like the week crawled by!!
 Congrats to both HS softball girls and baseball boys for their victories last night over Mangum and Cheyenne respectively.  The JH boys game against Arnett was post-poned until tonight.  So today after school I'm making the long boring trek out to Arnett and back.  Big Friday night plans.  :)


In class today we handed in the 3-2-1 over the sports magazine article.  I will grade those.  We also took a grade over the reading comprehension worksheets from yesterday.  We took and graded Vocab. Quiz #5.  I was going to take grades over the online assignment that I made yesterday, but the grades didn't look so good. :(   I'm thinking we better go over it together again and re-take the quiz.  It was over punctuation with direct quotes. No homework over the weekend.

Hope you have a great weekend!!!  :)

Thanks For the Rain!!!!

So, so, so glad that we got some rain last night.  It was very much needed.  I wish it would have cooled the temp down a bit.  They say that's going to happen this weekend.  I hope so.  I'M SICK OF HOT WEATHER!!!!!!!!  It puts me in a bad mood.  It is affecting my ability to run and work out.  I'm ready to wear long sleeves and boots!!  Please get cooler!

Today I cut the 8th grade some slack b/c  they had been doing the Explore (pre-ACT) test all morning with Mrs. Harrel and even had to finish it after my class this afternoon.  So because they assured me that their brains were too fried to work for me, I let them work on Vocab. Less. #5 wb, which is due tomorrow.  The vocab quiz is on Friday.  I also assigned a 3-2-1 over a sports magazine that is due Friday.  The 3-2-1 must be written down to turn in.  A reminder for the 3-2-1=  3 main ideas/points; 2 ideas you learned that were new; and 1 thing you didn't understand--and it can't be a vocab word this week.  That is what we did in class today with fried brains and all.  :)