Wow!  I didn’t really expect that we would be home on Friday because of the weather.  It was sort of funny to me when I read the announcement over the loud speaker and I could hear the yells of excitement coming from the classrooms.  I guess some things never change.  Young people still love getting out for snow/ice days.  Of course I’m getting older now and would have rather been at school.

That leads me into something I have been thinking about over the past few months.  I never would have thought that I would lose touch with what our younger generation enjoy.  I always thought that as long as I talked to them I would surely understand.  Well, I was wrong!  The older I get I have found that I do not enjoy the music that they enjoy or many of the “pop culture” items that excites this generation.  I mostly listen to ’90s Hip hop and R&B.  Frankly, it’s just hard for me to get into some of the new music.  I have tried very hard to stay in touch with social media and messaging systems.  It evolves very quickly as well.  How many of you have ever heard of Snapchat?  It’s huge with our students!  With that said, we all have to work hard to continue to have good relationships with our students to truly understand their likes and dislikes.  It is easy to say “I just don’t get them”, or we can try to understand why they like things, and embrace it because it is here to stay.  We all know when we understand them, our jobs as educators are that much easier.  I will continue to work hard to understand the things that they enjoy.  Just a few thoughts!

So Ohio State lost the big game! I didn’t know they had so many haters! I guess life as we know it can continue, because there will be an SEC school in the big game.  Maybe I am not a fan of the SEC.  I will say that I hope Florida State crushes Auburn!

Academic Updates

STAAR re-testing will continue this week.  This week’s schedule will be as follows:
Tuesday: Algebra
Wednesday: Biology

The SAT test has been rescheduled for Saturday, December 21, 2013.  Please govern yourselves accordingly.

Students, continue to keep track of your grades and your mastery of concepts in your classes.

We are working hard to get all of our courses lined up for our transition to the legislative changes that have come with HB5.  It will be pretty exciting to me when I see our students signing up for their respective endorsements.  Remember the endorsements that the students can choose from are:
*Business and Industry
*STEM
*Public Services
*Arts and Humanities
*Multidisciplinary Studies

There will be a mandatory meeting for all incoming freshman parents on Tuesday, January 14, 2014 at 1:15 pm or 6:00 pm.  We will discuss new graduation plans/endorsements for incoming freshman students.

Extracurricular Updates 

A big shout out to the state qualifying Corsicana FFA Radio Broadcasting team for being ranked in the top 20 out of over 675 Radio Broadcasting teams in the state of Texas.  This is a huge accomplishment and we are proud of them.  The members are Nathan Griffin, Caroline Means, and Leland Cook.  Go Tigers!

Tryouts for the Calico dance team have been rescheduled for this Tuesday.  Good luck to all the students trying out!

The fall sports banquet has been rescheduled for December 17th.

The band program will have their annual Christmas concert this Tuesday in the CHS Performing Arts Center beginning at 6:30 pm.

The choir program will have their annual Christmas concert Thursday in the CHS Performing Arts Center beginning at 7:00 pm.

There will be many other extracurricular activities taking place as well.  Please look on the campus calendar for all activities. CHS Campus Calendar

Learning Together

Students be on the look out for a dynamic learning experience!  We all love social media, and other digital mediums! Let’s learn together on how to create and sustain a positive, exciting, interesting, and responsible digital footprint!  This will be a free course for any student interested!  More details to come! Stay tuned!