Odds and Ends

Today the schedule change madness continued and lots of you had a second (or third or fourth...) schedule. Hopefully all of your classes are going well. I wanted to remind you that tomorrow (FRIDAY!) is the LAST day to add a year long or first semester class. We can adjust 2nd semester classes up until 3 days into 2nd semester. So please, if you are at all considering adding a class, come and see me tomorrow! If you have more than the required minimum number of class (6 for Sophomores or Juniors and 5 for Seniors) then it is possible to drop a class without penalty at any point in the 1st 6 weeks of school. After that time, the class will be reflected on your transcript with an "F" if you drop it. If you do not have enough credits to drop a class and still have the minimum number required, then you will not be able to drop a class at any time. I hope that makes sense, but if you have any questions, please come and see me.

After school tonight I had the chance to go out and watch the Varsity Field Hockey team in their victory over Dublin Scioto. I also watched the JV soccer game as they played a tough game against St. Charles. Gotta love that the fields are right next to each other! I was reminded again that it is really valuable for me to get a roster BEFORE I go to try to watch games as it is not very easy to figure out who is who and if any of the participants are my students. I will be correcting that mistake tomorrow and requesting rosters for all of the sports! :-)

I did have the opportunity to spend some time after school talking to the woman from the "Thank You Foundation" who is working with the US Military and WKHS and DSHS as a part of the Military Tribute game on September 14th. She is anxious to have students help say "Thank you" to our nation's troops and is hopefully that you might have some creative ideas in how to do this. One project that they are working on is getting people to sign thank you cards. They have cards that they are providing and asking people to sign them. They will have cards at the game, but will also be providing cards to both schools ahead of time for people to sign. They like to send care packages to those currently deployed and could use help with contributions of items for the care packages or with boxing up the items that are donated. These are community service projects that you can champion! Come and see me ASAP to talk about ways you can get involved if you are interested in one of these projects. Remember, this is a short term commitment - essentially you'd be done with the entire service project in 2 weeks and there are lots of different components that you could highlight from your outreach. If there are a group of you who want to do this, I am happy to help you coordinate and so is the woman from the Thank You Foundation. One of the ideas that I thought would be really neat to see would be to use some of the incredible talents within our school - for example, we have a great school news/ video production team - perhaps you could create video messages to send in care packages, etc. I will continue to keep my eyes and ears open for other short term "easy" service projects that you can do, but remember, if you have an idea - Go for it and make it your own!

Those of you who have done a lot of community service - I saw today that we received information about a scholarship through the Prudential Spirit of Community Awards. They are awarding $1,000 to a student who has made a difference by volunteering in your community over the past year. Don't forget that you will see this as well as many other scholarships listed on PrepHQ.