Fun Camps 2013

Instead to teaching summer school this year, I decided to lead some Fun Camps.  This week is Jr. Programming.  I have four very enthusiastic boys working with Scratch.  The first time I saw Scratch and moved the little cat around I wasn't too impressed.  Then I saw a program that someone had done that played "Frere Jacques" in a four-part round. This was so different from moving a cat that I had to give Scratch a second look.
It is easy to get started, but can get difficult and complicated quickly.  We are working on a MiniMario game from ScratchED.

March Madness may still be going on for basketball fans, but for me it is over. March started out with Read Across America. We had four special readers from the Chadron State College football team. Students and readers alike enjoyed the afternoon. Click here and read more and see the pictures.

The next week was our Conference Quiz Bowl tournament. We had two high school teams and one middle school team. We didn't win, but they participated and let everyone know our six return students were going to tough competitors. The high point of the day was Regg making the All-Conference team. The middle schoolers went to a middle school only competition the next week. We were definitely the underdogs. Our two teams together were outnumbered by one from most of the other schools.

Then came end of the quarter, Parent-Teacher conferences, and the book fair. The book fair went GREAT.

The highlight for the month was the arrival of my diploma. YEAH! My Master in Education from Lesley University.