“The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.” -Vince LombardiThis month in Gym we have begun our Team Handball Season and will continue it until November. The object of this game is to throw a “team handball” across the three-point line, past a goalie, and into the net. These games are highly intense being that rivalries have been sown from the year before. Whether students are playing goalie, defense, offense, or midfielder they are determined, focused, and resolute to win the game. Often that means jumping in the path of the ball. Even though these games are intense, students maintain a high level of sportsmanship thought the season.
Mr. Wong
Over the summer we were blessed with new software for the computer lab. This included the new Microsoft Program that is a little tricky to understand when you first use it. The high school students have spent the first few weeks becoming experts in Microsoft 2007. This Microsoft course will take us to the end of the first quarter and we will start our next course on computer maintenance.
Mr. Miller
Middle school started the year off by learning the History of Computers and where technology is going. They were shocked to find out how much money the first computer cost and that it was so big, it took up an entire room! We have also spent one class a week working on typing so they can eventually become expert typist.
Mr. Miller
We are having a lot of fun in computer lab so far this year. The elementary students come in once a week and have started to learn how to use a computer. The students are excited when they come in and get to play their games based on their grade level. The games they play incorporate every subject they are learning in class, and turns it into a lot of fun. I look forward to having their excited and smiling faces enter the lab each week.
Mr. Miller
This class is taught mainly in Spanish. We have a majority of students in this class that speak Spanish at home and we would like to expose them to the literature of the countries and cultures they come from. We have covered a lot of literary theories in class that we are now applying as we read “El Cid”. We are learning about the origins of the Spanish language and culture and finding those elements that permeate to the culture even today. The most important principle in our class is: “If we can understand our past, we can understand our present, and correct our ourselves for the future.”
Ms. Rivera
We are currently working on making a Spanish newscast. The students are recording news reports, planning the outline of the news cast, creating interviews, acting, and coming up with their own version of the news. They are working very hard to produce an excellent product using Spanish in the entire process. This project involves the students asking and answering questions, requesting information, using the preterit, imperfect, present and future tenses of the verbs in Spanish. This is a win-win situation; we have fun and are practicing the language at the same time.
Ms. Rivera
Resource Room
November is fast upon us with many changes in the forecast. Students are now finding out what is really hard for them and what is easy. Those who have been bringing in copies of their classes from Edline already knew and have been working on improving weak areas. Students are also finding out the consequences of poor study habits verses good study habits. This month I will focus on test corrections, remediation and encouraging them to”… press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.” Philippians 3:14
Mrs. Kemp
Up until this point in the school year, students have looked at two time periods in America’s history: the Antebellum Period before the Civil War (1820-1861) and the Civil War itself (1861-1865). Students are now learning about the Reconstruction period following the Civil War (1865-1896), which some historians call the Second Civil War in America.
Mr. Sanchez
Why do people move? This is one question students have been exploring as they learn about the values, beliefs, and traditions that brought Europeans to begin colonial settlements in the New World, specifically America. “What were the names of early colonies in America?” and “Why did these settlers trek across the Atlantic Ocean?” are questions students will answer in the coming days.
Mr. Sanchez
Sixth grade social studies students have spent the past two weeks learning about Ancient nations and empires, such as the Phoenicians, the Israelites, the Assyrians, the Babylonians, and the Persians. In the coming week students will be constructing individual timelines of these nations and empires.
Mr. Sanchez