DI Hard Slackers

K's team also went to the DI DAZE. Afterward, they got candy and got to go to Sweet Frog! I'm not complaining because Will & I crashed their Sweet Frog fun!!

DI DAZE!

Tonight we went to another DI DAZE!
This one was just for Instant Challenge practice. There were four different stations. The team had a fun time with the challenges even when they weren't quite as successful as we hoped! It was an evening of non-stop,mad-cap fun! Afterward, I gave them all huge candy bars and sent them home. :)

BMS Spelling Bee 2012

Katherine participated in the middle school spelling bee again this year. Although they took the top 30 spellers, only 26 showed up. Before the bee started the Assistant Principal went over the rules and introduced the judges. There were two Burley High School graduates (from 1964 & 1965), and a graduate student.


The first student spelled the first word incorrectly - he heard the wrong word. Such a bummer!
The first several rounds went well, with a few kids dropping out in each.
On a side note, Will's very first word from yesterday's bee didn't show up until the second round of this bee. Words were definitely easier today.


K made it to the 5th round, getting out on the word perseverance. She had a good time and didn't mind not moving on. The spellers did so well that the six spellers moving on to the 7th round will continue the bee on Monday.

Great job, girls!

SRE Spelling Bee 2012

There were 11 students in the SRE school-wide spelling bee this morning. There were three 3rd graders, including Will, and some 4th & 5th graders. The students were seated alphabetically by first name. There was another William, but his last name started with a C, so our William was last!



The judges included their principal, the guidance counselor, the gifted teacher & the librarian!


The audience was made up of nervous, camera-carrying parents, the class bee runners-up, and a few friends invited by the class bee winners.

The first word was CAT. Seriously. These are kids who WON their classroom bees with much harder words. Even the words in the warm-up round were more difficult.

Will's word in the first round was DECIDE. Definitely harder than CAT, but not too bad. Will spoke calmly & clearly into the microphone as he spelled his words & asked his questions.

The worst thing about the first round was a hard lesson. One of the students was given the word PAST. He didn't ask for clarification by definition or use in a sentence, and he spelled it PASSED. Bummer.

The next round was still fairly easy. Will's word was CHARACTER. No problem.

I might have missed a round, but the end result is the same.


In the next round Will got WANDERLUST. He asked for a definition. He spelled it wonderlust. Oh well. He took his misspelling well, and sat down in the audience with the seven students who had gotten out before him.

Three left.

Suddenly the words got really hard. Harder than necessary, really. Words like PRODIGIOUS, EFFLORESCENT & AUGER. and then BROUHAHA, VERDIGRIS, MYRRH. Holy cow!

The next 4 or 5 rounds were full of ups & downs as the last three students all spelled these difficult words wrong. One would occasionally spell a word correctly but then get the championship word wrong, thus bringing all three back up for more. Finally it seems, the list got much easier, and we have a winner who will go on to the County Bee.

Will had a great time and walked away a happy guy ready to get back to Reading class!


Tomorrow brings us Katherine & the BMS Bee!

C16

Here she is on her Sweet Sixteen on her way to a costume party. Happy birthday Caroline! Maybe we'll celebrate sometime in November.

Slowly...like molasses in winter...catching up...

I've added September & October 2011.

Ninja

Getting ready for Halloween...the real Halloween, not to be confused with the dress as a book character day at school.

Burley Blue v Henley Lavender

Pizza For Sale

Work is good. Work is fun.


Granddaddy & Will came to the game today!

DI DAZE

This is all I saw of my team at DI Daze. I had to leave them to go sell pizzas and sodas to the masses at the football game!!


I think they managed quite well without me there!

Gap Year

So I've managed to post through the end of October 2010 - & started up again October 1st, 2011. The months in between will just have to wait. I'm pretty sure that I'm the only one for which any of this matters. :)

AHS v. Brooke Point 2-0

Last game of the season - another win with a score of 2-0. This puts the girls 2nd in their district! I took no pictures during the game - just enjoyed watching. These are post-game pics of the girls goofing off for the coaches.

AHS v Riverbend - 5-1

Tonight was the second to last game of the season for Caroline's field hockey team. It was also the second time they played this particular team. The girls won 5-1.
Here's Caroline (#11) moving into place before she scored the final goal.

And here's a really awesome picture of her carrying the ball to the center line. (I'm not sure what setting I had the camera on today!)

Car Whisperer

Caroline's Health homework for the last month was all about learning everything about the car, including changing the tire. David showed her where everything was, and then set her loose!

AHS v Colonial Forge

Burley Blue v Henley Red

DI Fun!

At DI today, the team had to build something as tall as possible with the materials they were given. Simple, right?

The next challenge was to create up to 12 launchers - the idea was to launch popcorn over a line on the table. The team had a blast!!Then they ate the rest of the popcorn!