SECOND SEMESTER STUDENTS

Well we've started semester 2 and all appears to be going well. My new students seem very attentive and are eager to get started after a week of reviewing rules and classroom expectations. We did manage to create class "symbols" in our short week last week. Each student received a square and had to put their name on it along with various pieces of information about their future dreams (car, house, career, salary, reasons for loving that career, marital status, children, college info, etc.).
Check out the cool designs:

PERIOD 1 ("#1" because we're period 1 and number 1!)


PERIOD 2 ("WE'RE #1" because we have an exclamation point!)


PERIOD 4 ("MONEY" because it makes the world go around!)


PERIOD 5 ("CIRCLE" because we're the center of attention!)


PERIOD 7 ("SEVEN" because we're lucky period 7!)



NICE WORK EVERYONE! I am looking forward to a great semester full of fun learning and getting to know each of you!

We're Halfway There!

Semester 1 officially ended Friday. 94% of you passed Keyboarding & Careers and earned 1/2 credit towards graduation :-) We celebrated having a successful first semester by playing some fun games.

THANK YOU to all of my first semester students...you worked hard, respected my rules, and made teaching fun for me. I WILL MISS YOU...please stop in to see me and let me know how you're doing! And remember to BEHAVE...life is tough enough when you're on the right path not to mention how hard it is to turn yourself around to get off of a bad path. YOU ARE IN CONTROL OF YOUR DESTINY...I BELIEVE EACH OF YOU HAS WHAT IT TAKES TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE & LIVE AN AWESOME LIFE...GO FOR IT!!!

BEAR, SALMON, MOSQUITO: this was kind of like paper, rock, scissors....with a twist! Students find a partner, stand back to back, and on the count of three turn around and pretend to be a bear, salmon, or mosquito. They must move/sound like the animal in order to win. Bear eats salmon, salmon eats mosquito, and mosquito has malaria so when it stings the bear, the bear dies! Oh what fun this one was...

FACE OFF: find a partner, stand back to back, on the count of three turn to face each other. The first person to laugh, smile, or talk loses! We had to try this one a few times before people could get their "game faces" on...everyone kept laughing at first, but once they got serious some people lasted a long time!

KNOTS: We did this one boys versus girls. Stand in a circle, grasp hands with people around the circle, then try to "untangle" without letting go. Students were "all tied up" with this one....and the boys untangled the best!