Week 3 - 3rd Six Weeks

Congrats to Polar Bears Basketball for their win over Rice on Tuesday. They also defeated Mildred in the Italy tournament and finished fourth in the tournament.

Lady Bears lost to Rice on Tuesday but won 3rd in the Avalon Tournament

Junior High Action on Monday resulted in a win against Trinidad

Great Job Junior High One Act Play - We all enjoyed the Dress Rehearsal on Friday.
One Act Play placed 4th on Saturday at Abbott.


Week at a Glance:

Monday - Junior High Basketball vs Avalon - Here - 6:00
Tuesday- Varsity Basketball at Abbott - 4:00
Wednesday
Thursday - Frost Basketball Tournament begins
Friday - Frost Basketball Tournament 2nd round
Saturday - Final round - Frost Basketball Tournament

Remember that this six weeks is shortened by a couple of days. Progress Reports will go out this week. Next week is the last week of the six weeks. Finals will be on Thursday and Friday of next week with early release on those days. Your final for me will be similar to a benchmark over the elements and vocab we have learned over the semester. Remember to study all chapter vocab sheets and words in your spiral along with all returned tests. We will review on Wednesday of next week. Your final is 1/5 of your semester grade, so it is important to do your best and study effectively for the test.

See Exam Schedule in "Pages" Section of Blog

Classroom Week At A Glance:

Monday: Open Book Test - Raymond's Run and Retreived Reformation

Tuesday: Review for Selection Test

Wednesday: Selection Test

Thursday: Begin Grammar Packet - Concrete/Abstract/Possessive Nouns

Friday: Finish Packet - Review Literary Concepts for Benchmark/Semester Exam

Vickery's Vit & Visdom

WATCH or READ THE NEWS
When I was growing up my parents always insisted that we watch the network news shows and the local newscasts. We also watched new specials and read the newspaper frequently. Sometimes at school, I found that I was only kid in class that knew what was going on in the news and the world. I felt like an oddball but still continued to gather information through the news. I liked being in the know. I thank my parents now for this discipline and see its importance now that I teach. Learning the events and state of our nation, state and city give us the power that we need to make good decisions in our daily lives. We learn what is expected by society. We learn right from wrong. We learn that we are not the only culture and that as a nation, we are pretty lucky. We learn that there is not a ceiling to our dreams or goals. In class, we are able to learn more from our knowledge foundation of information. I am amazed sometimes when I ask a simple question about some recent world or national event and no one in my classes knows anything about it. It is important to know current events. It is important to learn about our world. It is important to arm ourselves with knowledge. We are free to be educated, yet we don't take the inititive to use that freedom to learn. Other countries are governed and ruled by an educated few and its power depends on the ignorance of the masses. Ignorance takes away our power to decide and think for ourselves. It takes away the ability to decipher truth from a lie. Ignorance will result in following leaders that depend on ignorance to be able to lead. Using public education, learning on our own, questioning others will result in a self reliant population that will be able to think independently. WATCH or READ the NEWS.

Now for the Vit:
I have found that the more I know, the more I want to know.