High School Semester Exams

This school year has been going by pretty fast.  We are already four and a half months done with school so far.  We are now studying for our upcoming semester exams.  We started reviewing in some of our classes on January 5^th through January 13^th.  We have studied as a class for about a week in advance for the exams but now the dates of the exams are getting closer and closer to arriving.  The exam dates start on January 17^th, January 18^th, and the last day of exams are January 19^th. 

      On Friday January 13^th we were supposed to review as a class for the last time before exam week.  But, that didn’t happen due to the first snow day of the school year.  While it is kind of disappointing that we didn’t have one more day to review as a class on Friday, it was still a blessing to have a day off and to study individually.  Studying individually is a smart thing to do, and also a not so smart thing to do.  It is a smart thing to do because only you know what you need to look over and what you know very well.  It’s not so smart to just study individually because you might have not written some information down that someone else has.

      I’m sure we are all nervous for this brutal upcoming semester exams.  We all get nervous because the semester exams are a big percentage of our overall grades.  Regardless, with good studying put in, I’m sure we will do a phenomenal job.  So study and be ready to face the semester exams with flying colors.    

            - David Everett, Junior

¡Piñatas!

            Starting off the new year of 2012, students could be either excited, or it could also be a dread. Excitement fills up with the students because it means we’re getting that much closer to summer. But also it could be dreadful because it means exam week is right around the corner. What I think is much better than both of those though, is that in Spanish we are making our own piñatas!

Mrs. Saum’s Spanish classes, Spanish 2, Spanish 3, and Spanish 4, get to make piñatas to kick off the New Year. Every Friday so far we have worked on them. The first Friday we brought in balloons and put paper mache on them. After letting them dry for about a week, we will bring in all of the things we need to make the piñata look the way we want it to, like tissue paper, paint, hot glue guns and more! 

Each class came up with the idea of what the piñata should be, and between all of their ideas, they voted on the best one. Spanish 2 (sophomores) chose to do a snowman, Spanish 3 (juniors) chose to do a Spanish star, and Spanish 4 (seniors) chose to do an ice cream cone. On the last day of spirit week, Friday January 27, we will hang them up, break them, and then dive for the candy that will fall out. The juniors are debating on whether to actually break it that day, or at the end of the year to celebrate the end of the school year, and going into summer! 

Spirit week will be an eventful fun filled week! I am excited for dressing up, lunchroom competitions, basketball games, and then to end the week with cracking of the piñatas! It will be very exciting to see how the piñatas turn out, and then seeing them be destroyed! 

            - Megan Beals, Junior