Donkey Basketball

The White River FFA sponsored a donkey basketball game as a fundraiser.  Even though the weather was terrible that night, lots of people showed up to participate and watch.  Here is Vic's story about the game:

Donkey Basketball

The donkey basketball was so funny. Most of the people riding the donkeys got bucked off.  I think it was the funniest thing I have ever seen in my whole life. One of the funniest parts was when Malania got bucked off and the donkey drug her. It was hilarious. I can’t wait untill next year when all of the eighth graders ride them. I'll see you next time, donkey basketball! 

Bake Sale for Alice

Since Alice, our custodian has had so many health issues, we are hosting a bake sale tomorrow to help her out.  Vic made this notice:

Alice Lacovara

  Bake Sale

    The bake sale will be on February 9 12:00 p.m.-1:30 p.m. in the school lobby. For Alice Lacovara.

Accelerated Reader Party

Mrs. Reid was in charge of the Accelerated Reader party for 2nd quarter.  All of the grade school kids except for two made 100%.  She had the kids bring things with wheels so that they could ride in the parking lot.  It was supposed to be a beautiful day.  Since it turned out windy and cold, Mrs. Maynard said the kids could use the Blue Gym instead.  How fun is that?
Here is Braedon's report on the party:

The elementary school had an AR party 1/17/12! For those of you that do not know what AR is it is when everyone who reads a book that is AR and is worth at least ½ of a point get points if you get 60% 70% 80% 90% or 100% you get the points and you have a goal to see if you finish your AR before the quarter ends.

                                          All of the elementary finished their goal and made it to the AR party.  What we did at the AR party is we brought our bikes scooters roller skates or skate boards to the blue gym an rode them in there.


Since my whole class made 100%, I had to wear my roller skates to school one day.  Luckily, I didn't fall down.

Sledding

When our school was built, someone got the great idea to put the football field on a hill behind the school.  The hill is right outside the grade school door.  When we finally got some snow a week or two ago, we decided to let the kids bring sleds or snowboards to school.  They had a great time sledding at recess.  Here is what Rachael had to say about sledding:  

For school we could bring our sleds to school, and we would slide down the football field. It was very fun, I went so fast that I ran into an ice-burg, and it hurt really bad, and I am very sore. But the best part was that I got to be with my friends. And that is the story when I got to go sledding at school.

MAPS Testing

Last week, the kids did the reading and math portions of MAPS testing.  They will do language and science after Christmas break.  Everyone who improves their score will get to go on a hike with Mrs. Maynard, so the stakes are high to do well.

Here is what Braedon had to say about the tests:

MAPS testing has been very good this year. This time we were suppose to improve our score which we all did improve our score like some people had like 194 and their score moved to 206 so we did well with moving our score up in the math portion of the test!!!!!!!

           The reading portion of the test was pretty good also some people had a score of 192 and moved they’re score to 203 so MAPS Testing was good this year and everyone was happy that they improved their scores. 

How to Grow Up and Rule the World

I was looking for some super interesting books for my class of boys, and I stumbled on this blog.  It has great recommendations for middle school age readers.  This is where I discovered Vordak the Incomprehensible.  He is the world's greatest supervillain and he has written two books.  I read his book How to Grow Up and Rule the World to my class last month.  It was hilarious and full of great ideas for anyone who really does want to become a supervillain.  We even found out how to make our own super evil genius names.

Vic Kolzar wrote a little about the book:

Vordak was one of the funniest books I have ever heard. It is about a supervillain that is the evil ruler of the world and tries to teach us how to be one of the evil rulers of the world. This is Kolzar signing off; keep on writing Vordak.

Thanksgiving Feast

Each year, even when we were at the old school, we have had a school-wide Thanksgiving Feast the day before Thanksgiving Vacation.  When we moved up here, we began including the high school and junior high in our feast.  I make the list of who brings what, and the Student Council cooks turkeys and serves the food.  After the feast, each elementary teacher shows a movie in her room and the kids get to pick which movie they see.  This is as close as Lund will get to a cineplex.  

After clean up, the Student Council takes plates of leftovers to some of the older people in town, which really is a great service, since many of them don't want to bother cooking a big dinner for just themselves.  It's also a good chance to visit.

Here is what Vic had to say about our Thanksgiving Feast:

Thanksgiving Feast

The Thanksgiving feast was so good. I loved it. We all had to bring food for the feast I brought stuffing. The pecan pie was really delicious. I also thank everybody for bringing food. I can’t wait for next year.