Costume Day

It's the second day of Homecoming but it felt like Halloween. Everybody was in great costume. The catch was you had to be a character from a book, movie, of fairytale. I was the evil queen from Snow White. One of my friends was a cave women from the Flintstones and it was really funny. This was a fun day because everybody participated and had fun with it. Some girls even got into character. Good thing no one was Godzilla. *tee hee*

Twin Day

Am I seeing double?! No, today is the first day of HOMECOMING!!!! Each day there will be a dress up day until Friday. Today was Twin Day!!! You pair up with someone and dress alike to look like twins. There's not just twins but triplets, quadruplets and so one. My twin and I went shopping so we had the same exact thing but it's OK if you don't look like a clone. THAT would be creepy.

Dedication

Today the Ann Richards dedication took place. Ambassadors took over and started giving tours to groups. Including the Richards family. The Student Council Officers gave out brochures and warmly greeted guests. The Ceremony opened up with a performance by the choir. Then many people, I can't remember most of them, gave great (and long) speeches including one from Ellen Richards. There was also a band performance. The ribbon was finally cut and the school was initially opened.

Open House

Come in, Come in and see how awesome the inside of our school is!!! Art work is hanging on the walls making the halls look beautiful. You can meet the teachers your daughter has and you can check out different after school clubs in the cafeteria. It is the best time to check the school out.

Fill You In

Okay, this school is GREAT!!!! This is what the school has done for all the kids....

• Given free computers and free lessons to kids that didn't already have a computer
  
• Given free uniforms to the kids that couldn't afford them
• Given us well balanced lunches to eat
• Lately, they just gave every kid in the school a FLASH DRIVE!!!!
  

WOW

Big thanks to both of the Ann Richards Volleyball teams for being so great. People, we even had an away game and the girls that came to support the our volleyball team cheered more than the home team's crowd. WHOOP WHOOP!!!!!!

Student Council

Lets give a round of applause to Student Council... *clap clap*. We are working very hard so our Homecoming will be a blast!!! Committees have been made just for it.
P.S. Ms.DiCaffa and Ms.Fierro are with us at every meeting to make sure we don't do something dumb like.......... let every Tuesday be crazy Monkey Appreciation Day!!!! *clap clap*

World Culters

When will they get along? In World Cultures the 6th graders are learning about Palestinian (Arab, Muslim) and Israeli (Jewish) conflict. Before this, I didn't even know there was a country called Israel, much less a city called Jerusalem. It started 1,000s of years ago when the Jews got kicked out by the Romans so the Arabs moved in and lived there for 1,000s of years but when the Jew came back about 60 years ago and told them to leave, the Arabs didn't want to leave so a war broke out and there is now a strong cultural hate between them. We are watching a documentary on it called "Promises". So far in this class, we have learned about different land forms, the names of the 7 continents and names of the 5 oceans. I just finished my World Cultures project on the 12 Keys of Culture. The 12 Keys of Culture are the 12 categories that define some one's culture easily. This is a great class and I love it. Praise to Ms.DiCaffa!!!

Court Yard Clean Up

I put on my dates post something about a Court Yard Clean Up and I'm going to tell you about it. My dad and I got out there at about nine and I couldn't believe how many people were out there!!! There were about 75 people and they were all pitching in!!! There was a group of people working on making a hill, another was laying down turf and you get the point. There were Bobcats rolling around everywhere picking up dirt and dropping it off somewhere else. Almost all the teachers were out there breaking a sweat too. I worked on the shrubs around the sign which was harder than it looks!!! If you ever drive past and see our courtyard, you'll see how much teamwork can change something (along with a bunch of Bobcats and professionals helpin')

Dates

Since I am part of student council, (Treasurer) I know a lot of dates of event so here they are...


Courtyard Clean-Up
Saturday Oct. 6
8:30-12:00

Dedication Day
Sunday Oct. 21
1:00 Tours of the School
2:00 Dedication Ceremony
Only people involved with the school is allowed

HOMECOMING
Oct. 22-26
Homecoming Volleyball Game
Oct. 26
Adults get in for $2

PE

PE is really fun but it can be tiring. First you have to quickly get to the locker room and get changed, then you have to run 3 laps around the basket ball court, then you stretch. That's what you have to do EVERY day in PE. Right now we are practicing Volleyball which is my speciality so I get to help Coach Brown. She's starting at the basics for those who have never played before. Now she is making us do something a lot of kids my age don't do. Coach Brown is making us keep a food diary which includes what you ate and drank, where you were when you ate it, who you were with and if you exercised (not including PE). We even have and Ann Richards School Volleyball team, it's made up of 7th graders though. Well, that all I have to say about PE. Bye!!!!!!

STARS

The thing about STARS is that is shares a period with PE so we have STARS half of the time and PE the other. In STARS we will be learning and practicing being women leaders. We just finished poetry about ourselves and now we are talking about the time when women wanted jobs and men thought women were 'uppity'. We learned what that word meant before we even started the subject. This is not an elective so all the girls will practice becoming women leaders.

Science AP

I LOVE science. When we walk in we need to pick up our composition notebooks and we copy down the agenda that's on the screen. The agenda has the student expectation for that day, a warm up, and the agenda for the day. We just finished the Metric System which I now understand because an AWESOME trick my teacher taught us. Now Science Fair is coming up and and have a notebook just for that and today my class went to the library and we discussed different topics. I'm soo exited.

Math AP

I really like math and I'm good at what we're doing but that doesn't mean it's 2+3. We are learning about exponents, mean, median, mode, range, and different types of graphs. When we walk in the classroom we sit down quietly (some people talk), copy down our homework in our agenda and do the warm up on the screen. For Math you need a separate math binder. Then if you don't have your homework you get in big trouble. You also get a lot of homework in this class but if you just do it you can get it over with.

Stuff

Hi. I know alot of you read this to find out stuff about Ann Richards but I'm going to put down jokes every Sunday. (Or at least I'll try) And I'll have polls and ect but for right now look at these pictures!!!!!

Fill You In

Hehehe.... Sorry that I haven't been blogging. I have some things you need to have to be great in this school.

1. You must be ready to do lots of homework.
2. You must ALWAYS do your best and push yourself to be better.
   
3. You must be ready to take the steps to make a change.
   
4. You must always try to make friends.
   

I had a lot of homework over the weekend so I really couldn't do any blogging and I have volleyball practice to so only in my free time can I do this. I really like math because I'm very good at it. Well the teacher thinks I'm so good that when I finish my work I can help the kids, almost like I'm tutoring them. For science, I have to make a film (yay) about science so if I find out how to, I'll post it. The floors just got finished in the gym so we can exercise now. The gym is Huge and there's two!! In world cutlers we're practicing reading latitude and longitude and pin point the exact coordinates. At the very beginning, we learned the continent names and if Ms.Hardwick or any of her students are reading this I taught the teacher the , Up Down Up Down Up Down Down song and she loved it. Well that's all I have to say. Bye!!!!

Day 4

Today I went to the cafeteria at 8:00 and I still wasn't late. Hee Hee that rhymes!!! When the students were dismissed I went to my Advisory. Instead of talking about yoga and rules the class started debating about the uniforms. Most of the students didn't like the uniforms but to me they do 3 BIG things for me...

1. I can sleep later because I don't have to worry about what I'll wear the next day.
2. Everyone looks the same so there is no teasing about fashion.
   
3. You can think more about you work than your earrings.
   

Nothing really big happened today except for the story I starting for English and the teamwork activity I did in S.T.E.M were one person is Builder and the builder builds what ever instructions the Observer tells them and if the builder is confuse the Listener can ask questions to help the builder out and the Manager makes sure that the Observer keeps their hands behind their back so they can't point and that the Listener doesn't talk to the Builder. The point is that is that the Observer looks at a small Lego building the teacher has made and uses their memory of it to tell the builder what to builder. When I left I was shocked because I have homework over the weekend. Well I guess that's just middle school. Bye!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Day 3

Today (well yesterday) was my third day here. We all went to cafeteria for assembly like I will do for the rest of the year. Then I went to Advisory and my teacher handed out the rules of yoga. After the next 2 weeks we will start our morning yoga. When the bell rang I went to Liberal Arts and we read poems and would try to figure what the author was saying and what we liked about it. We also took notes about mini stories we read and shared them. After, I went to art where we read a few pages from a text book about the Elements of art. We then did blind drawing where you don't look at your paper where you draw and only look at the thing you were drawing. When the bell rung I went to lunch (I go to lunch after second period). The food is AMAZING. I haven't eaten school lunch in 4 years!!! When I finished my lunch I went to World Cultures and we talked about the homework we were given on the first day. We all thought we were reading an article about a strange tribe in South America but really we were reading about our selfs. The writer of the article was American but wrote it as if he was from a foreign country. That gave use a taste of what it will be like to learn about different cultures and not to judge them instantly. After that we had Math Pre-Ap were we wrote down vocabulary words in our journal like exponents. The bell finally rang and we left school with our backpack full of HOMEWORK!!!!!!

B Day The Best

Today was B day so my classes were different. My courses were Science, S.T.A.R.S, PE, English, and S.T.E.M. First was Science which was taught by Ms.Harbert or Mr.Murry, both very nice and great teachers. Science Fair will be required at this school but I think that's great! Next was S.T.A.R.S. which stands for Success Through Academics, Responsibility, and Service, taught by Ms.Turner. S.T.A.R.S. is the leader ship class and it was the class Ann Richards was most excited about!!! Then PE who is taught by Coach Brown, a former Lady Longhorn. The cool thing about PE here is that in most schools, PE is only half the year but at Ann Richards PE is all year so we can stay healthy. Next is English taught by Ms.Langley of Ms.Fernandez. In English, the class will be like a giant workshop where we write what ever we want and practice our reading skills. Last for me is S.T.E.M. taught by Mr.Murry or Ms.Harbert. S.T.E.M. stands for Science Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. Here we well learn about well, those 4 things. I chose this class because I want to be a Chemical Engineer when I grow up. A great course to take if you love Science. There are other things too like Band and Choir but I don't take those classes so you might need someone else for those 2 classes. That was day 2. If my next day comes in late like this one sorry. I'm still a child under rules and I can still get in trouble. Bye!!!

My First A Day

Today was my first day of school at the Ann Richards School!!! Reporters was EVERYWHERE!!!! All day we just fill questionnaires and talked about our selfs but I will explain my classes and such. Everyday is either an A day or a B day. We got syllabuses for every class too so we got an idea of what we'll be doing for the rest o the year. Today was an A day so for my schedule I had Liberal Arts, Art, World Cultures, and Math Pre-Ap. Everyday also the school has something called Advisory. It's just like homeroom except the whole school Advisories do the same lesson and there's always a lesson behind each activity. Liberal Arts (Humanities) is taught by Mrs.Langley (former Kealing teacher). In Humanities I will learn about our culture. Next is Art taught by Mrs.Fernandez who is also my Advisory teacher. In Art I will be able to work with many different art materials. After that I have World Cultures taught by Ms.DiCuffa or Mr.Washington. World Cultures is just a fancy word for Social Studies. My final period is Math Pre-AP taught by Mrs.Diaz and Mr.Murry. Math Pre-AP will be a math class that challenges student more that twice than regular math which is better for me. After I went back to Advisory and the day ended at 3:50.

Last Day of Summer 2007

School starts tomorrow!!! All day I've been working on my Ann Richards School project but I just finished it. All the pressure is off. I've been playing all summer and I forgot about the project!!! I'm sooooo exited about school tomorrow. I've already made a bunch of friends thanks to the transition camp. I hope school's as fun as it though! Hey, guess which pair of legs are mine!!!