October 25, 2009

I can hardly believe that October is coming to an end this week. It seems like we just started school and now Christmas is on our doorstep. This weekend the time changes and I hate the dreary dark winter evenings. It makes me sad to travel home in the dark from a full day at school.



This week is full of activity as we have our fall chili cook off on Tuesday with live entertainment from our Summit upper school. The students have also generated charts through the architecture school at Drury University with ideas for a new school building. On Wednesday the students will go to see Alice in Wonderland at the Springfield Little Theater and on Friday they will go to Rutlege Farm to perform Thriller.



There is no school on Friday and my team and I will be working on accreditation all day long. It is going to be tedious work but will benefit the school tremendously whenever the work is done. Accreditation will give us opportunities for grants that we do not currently enjoy.



I am excited that four locations will be announced for the new school building. I really like the downtown area and hope it is at least one proposed location. The opportunities for education are numerous in the downtown area with a plethara of activities centered at the higher learning facilities and fine arts facilities. We have been downtown now for three months and have barely scratched the surface of the underlying educational opportunities available in this area.



School is settling down and the kids are doing great. We have parent teacher conferences in a few weeks and I look forward to sharing with all our parents about the wonderful things going on in upper school with their student.

October 5, 2009

It has been a while since I have been able to post. Things are really busy at the school and now that the fall weather has set in, the students have gotten a bit more energetic.
I am really proud of our new venture in performing arts. It is a joy to see the students moving in choreographed moves and having fun while doing it. It is amazing to see how far the students have come in such a short period of time.

Friday we will be having our first after school outing with a bonfire and hot tub experience at Mrs. Bowerman's house. Last year we had a hay ride and bonfire and it was a lot of fun. This year we could not get the hay wagon so the hot tub will have to suffice. The students should enjoy getting together and I am excited to visit with the parents and touch base with where the individual families are at this point.

We scheduled our first dance for November 13,2009 at MGYM. This is a half day for the students and hopefully we will have a good turnout. This time, no parents but the students may bring a friend. I will need to get a few parents to help with refreshments. We are thinking about doing a masquerade dance since it is on a Friday 13th date.

In the next few minutes I will be visiting all my student's blogs. So far the worst thing I have seen is a total destruction of English grammar.