ESCOBEDO ROCKS the blogspot!!

I would like to thank the parents who came to Back to School night last night. It was nice to see you!! If you came to back to school night, you participated in a Back to School Night Scavenger Hunt. The purpose of the Scavenger Hunt was two-fold. It was to show you, the parent, the important areas of our room: grades posting, AR words, agenda, writing, etc…And it was a test to see if your students is familiar with our room and where things are.

The bottom of the sheet also had a cut-off piece to put on your fridge. On the sheet in my phone number, email and blog address. Please  look for this to come home with your student.

Also, while our kids were scavenging the room, I played a picture slideshow of kids throughout the  day. I will be adding to this throughout the year…stay tuned….

Thanks again,

Mrs. Escobedo

The first day of school went without a hitch…not any big hitches anyway. Thank you for being on your best behavior, especially when we have sooo much to do!!

Tech use: I am hoping to add a little blurb every so often about the technology that was used or the lesson that was taught. Today(Yesterday) I used my laptop to play an imovie that i made the day before. I also used my slate to control my mac. The slate didn’t go so well, i couldn’t get it play my imovie, so i put it down and had to do it by hand. No biggy…

Laptop permission slips went home; first class to get them all in gets a prize!!

Looking forward to day 2!

Where are you and where do you need to be? How many more questions do you need to get right in order to move up a band? Post some things that you have been doing to prepare for this years CST’s.

Predict how you will do this year…

Testing is over!!! Back to a regular schedule…

I am really proud of the kids in my classes that worked hard and tried thier best!   Thank you, and i’m sure you will see your efforts pay off in August!

I am going to miss the morning snack and the granola bars though!

Yes. You heard me…I’m on a roll! It has only been a week since my last post! Yah, I’m excited too!

I thought i might comment on last weeks staff vs. students basketball game. Can you say, “Rip off?” No…I didn’t studder. I said RIP OFF! We sooo should have won that game. Not like i had any part of it. I sooo cannot play basketball…or anything else ball related…really. But I was still there to root on my team. Mrs. Johnson and i were cheerleaders. Sorta. I don’t do pom poms or any of that girlie-cheery stuff either, but i can yell!

On the other hand, it was very cool to hear all of the kids join together and chant. It’s not very often that kids in junior high are united in anything. That was the best part of the afternoon.

It was also kinda fun to see the teachers trying to keep up with the students. Some of them were dying! I will post pictures! lol

If you know me, you know that I have never been a big fan of poetry. (I can hear Mrs. Andrada laughing now!) I have always felt like it should rhyme…you know….cat and the hat and all that… Well, we are deep in the midst of our poetry unit and it is starting to grow on me.

Hold your pants on boys and girls…I didn’t say i was a poetry lover. I just said that it is starting to grow on me…

So, with that being said, choose something that you love, search the internet, and post a poem. I would love to read some of the poems that you find cool…

Please remember to give props where props are due. If you didn’t write it, give the author credit!

I got nothin’…

 Just kidden’! You know I check this thing all the time, i just don’t comment. I’ll try to do better. I need some posting ideas! Got any? C’mon Brandon, Natalie, Taylor, Ann…anyone…Bueller…(only the grown ups are gonna get that reference…) just sayin’

“Every Who down in Who-ville liked Christmas a lot … but the Grinch, who lived just north of Corcoran did not!”

I have been such a slacker this year at updating my blog. I am only a few minutes away from popping a roast-beast in the oven, but i thought i could use this time to say Merry Christmas…blah, blah, blah…

Yes, I am a TOTAL grinch this year… just not feelin’ the Christmas Spirit. I am normally all about Christmas: the lights, the decorations, the music, friends, family, GIFTS. Seriously…there are NO better holidays than Christmas! Don’t know why i’m in a funk???

Just am.

Anyway, today we are having Christmas dinner at my house, and presents after that. Santa will come tonight, and the tree comes down tomorrow. I know! Tomorrow’s Christmas! Whatevah! The tree is still coming down!

What are you doing? Drop me a post and fill me in on what you and your family are doing for the holidays…

Merry Christmas from H-ville,

The Grinch

(Have I ever mentioned that this is one of my MOST FAVORITIST MOVIES EVAH!!!)

Yesterday was one of those proud to be an American moments.

I came to Corcoran because Art, Alec and Mia wanted to come see the Cotton Parade. (Actually, I did too, but I had work to do in my classroom.) Anyway, while I was working, I hear the sound of fighter jets passing over. Because that is the coolest thing ever, I ran outside to check it out. Not only was there one, but four. Then all of the sudden, there were four more, then two more, then three more. What??? I thought I counted 13 at one point. They kept circling over Corcoran, round and round. Everytime they flew over, I ran outside. It wasn’t even like I was showing my kids. I just think it’s cool.  At one point, I was outside and the jets were flying in two large clusters. There were 19 or 21 of them. It was hard to tell because sometimes they look like thier stacked and it’s hard to count.

At one point, one of the jets broke away from the pack and flew really low over the top of the town. I figured they were doing a “fly by” over the top of the Kids Day Festival at the park. Anyway, the jet flew over the top of my class.  The building was shaking, and the sound was deafening. Goosebumps. It’s times like that that make you feel proud to live in America.

p.s. I’m working on adding music to this blog. The perfect song to add here would be Proud to be an American.

She was sent to us for a reason, and I am grateful.

We could laugh together, cry together, fight with each other and still we would say,

“But I love you though…”