The blog spot 10-8

Welcome to another addition of the blog spot! First off, I want to thank everyone for their feedback on what they like about the blog, and some things that I might be able to change in future installments. Sometimes, a person tries new things and wonders if it works or doesn’t work. Is it worth the time or should a person just scrap it? I’m glad people like it, and use it to see what is coming up in your child’s future as far as my class is concerned.

We’ve been diligently working with comparing and ordering numbers, working with exponents, and will soon be heading into one of my personal favorites, PEMDAS. If you don’t know what PEMDAS means, ask your child in a week or so, or ask one of the students that is currently working in the Accelerated Math class. When we get to working with PEMDAS, it will be important that we work things out “one step at a time.”

Upcoming dates to keep in mind: Friday is a quiz for both sixth and seventh grade classes; next week on Wednesday we are dismissed at 11:30; and Friday is the end of the quarter. If students have missing assignments (which there aren’t very many), they will become zeros at 3:20 on Friday. Encourage your students to get those assignments in. On Friday of next week, for anyone passing all of their classes, we will be having a football incentive activity, where all students not failing a class, get to go and watch the seventh graders play football, listen to the band rock out, and most importantly, listen to the voice of the panthers over the loud speaker.

A good movie to check out: “The Final Season” It’s a story of a baseball team in Iowa that has one season left to play high school baseball, before they consolidate with a bigger school. The small town of Norway has a legendary tradition that involves 19 state titles, and numerous college players and a couple of pro players. They decide to get rid of their Hall of Fame coach and name a volleyball coach to take over (you’ll know him by the name of “Rudy”). The school board hopes that he will fail and the townspeople will forget all about their storied baseball teams. Many things happen over the course of the final season, from success to failure to life lessons. I won’t spoil the ending for you, but I can say it was an outstanding movie. The weirdest thing for me was, the week after I watched it, I went to the Nebraska-Creighton game at Rosenblatt, and dadgummit, if there weren’t two players from Creighton that hailed from Norway, Iowa.