Newsletter

My newsletter is going pretty good. My group is Peter, Jessica, and myself. we have the front page set up and almost have all of the articles written. Tomorrow we will have to type it all on the letter and do some of the finishing touches. I hope that we can finish it on time. We also will have to look again at the rubric to make sure that we have everything and don't get any points taken off for missing things.

Physical Development

This year my physical goals include staying healthy, when it comes to sickness and injury, and hopefully growing a little taller over the course of the year. It is very important to get as much sleep as you can in high school, and I have not been getting very much lately. Much of this is due in part to it having been Homecoming week, but I'm quite alright with that because this week was a blast. I play three sports; soccer, basketball, and track, and I hope to stay fit and healthy throughout the whole year.

Newsletter Assignment

This week we are going to be assigned to make a newsletter having to do with Homecoming, with a group consisting of three people. Tomorrrow we have to pick our groups and I'm not sure who I'm going to be with yet. For the assignment we are each going to write a page about one aspect of Homecoming, then put them together to form a newsletter. I think that I'm going to write about the different days of Homecoming week such as twin day, gradeschool day, and class color day.

My Intellectual Develpoment

Along with my goal pertaining to my emotional development, I have a goal for my intellectual develpment this year too. My goal is to stay on the high honor roll throughout the whole year, like last year, which means I would have to maintain a 4.0 GPA or better. I accomplished this last year and I hope that I will be able to do the same this year. I also want to have not only a 4.0 or better but straight A's to go along with that.

Emotional Goals

My hope is that this year I will grow in many ways, and one of these ways would be emotionally. I plan to grow by being put in certain situations that I am not particularly familiar with and handeling them in a mature and respectable way, along with learning from them. That is what I hope to accomplish this year and Peoria Notre Dame High School.

Saint Power Point

So far the saint power point is going very well, at least compared to the other assignments. I'm almost finished, all I have to do is the MLA slide and add in the pictures and I brought it home on my flash drive so I'll try and finish it this wekend if I have time. I'm doing it on St. Thomas the Apostle. He was my comfirmation saint and he is the patron saint of architects and I want to be an architect whwen I get older. Also he is called "The Twin" and I'm a twin. Can you believe it!?

Thoughts on the Mission Statement

This year I have set a goal for myself to grow and develop spiritualy through being taught the faith by teachers along with other students, and by doing my best to be an example to other students on how to be a Disciple of Christ. If this goal is met I will have adhered the mission statement of our school and shown that it is a positive way to be the best disciple and person that I can be. .

I made a lot of progress on my storybook today in class, I'm doing the song Cheeseburger in Paradise by Jimmy Buffet. I've never done a power point on keynote so tomorrow I'll need major help in making the transitions between slides, changing the colors, and so on. I'm getting a little tired of soccer practices in this rainy weather. We play Quincy Notre Dame this Saturday at Notre Dame at, I think eleven.

Hey, I just fixed up my blog so now you can play games, take a poll, take a look at the national geographic picture of the day, and some other cool stuff. I've found that there's so much you can do to your blog to make it more interesting. Don't forget to comment.

My New Blog

Hi, I just set up my blog. It was a little harder than it had to be due to my very slow computer, but otherwise it was pretty easy. I really like the new Mac computers and I think this will be a very interesting class. The only problem is that I think we are working too fast. I don't have a Mac at home and I know this is the first year and everyone is learning, so I think that it would be more beneficial to myself and the class if we worked on the assignments at a slower speed so that we can learn more about the computer instead of worrying about getting the assignments done on time. I have talked to other classmates and they also find it to be a little too fast-paced and therefore confusing. It would be very much appreciated if this was taken into consideration.