Testing, Lord of the Flies, and That Time of Year

Good morning everyone,

Yesterday's testing went pretty well.  I saw a lot of good test taking behaviors from most of the students and I really hope you did as well as I believe that you did/can/will.  Keep up the hard work through our next two days of testing!

As was announced in class yesterday, you do have homework.  We are starting Lord of the Flies and you should have read up through chapter 3 by Tuesday, about 50 pages, but you have the weekend to do it (don't wait until Monday night!).  We will have a short quiz on Tuesday and it would be very helpful for you to complete the study guide as you read.

As a side note, the basketball team is hosting a Toys-for-Tots drive at tonight's home game.  You can get in free with a donation of an unopened, new toy.  It would be awesome if you could come, support the teams, and donate to a good cause.

Speaking of donating, Shop with a Longhorn is this Saturday.  Even if you're not on a team, if you want to come and help people wrap the presents, it would be nice to have extra volunteers.  If you're participating with a team, I'll see you on a bus :)

If you are in the donating spirit and want to donate to the classroom, we could really use tissue, extra highlighters, extra dry erase markers, pencils, and loose leaf paper.  These are things that we use and/or give away throughout the semester and my stores are running low.  I'd really appreciate it, if you want to.

Happy Friday.  After today, we only have 10 more school days this semester.  You can make it!