Back to School Update

Hello Everyone!

Well, the first two days have come and gone!  As always, it's a crazy few days as we work out the kinks of a new school year.

Mrs. Taylor is working tirelessly to get IDs processed and new students accounts set up.  If your ordered or new ID doesn't show up as expected, please be patient.  Modified and Work-Study IDs--same thing, patience!  They are being made and delivered as fast as humanly possible.  New students, please know our computer and gmail accounts are created and managed by an outside IT company.  We've been informed it will be AT LEAST Thursday morning before any new accounts will work.  Please let your teachers know they can call us to verify this fact.

You may have noticed Mr. Winters is missing from the LMC.  He is covering the Homework Help Center while Mr. Brown is on paternity leave.  We expect him back early October, but in the meantime you can find him in D...something.  I can't remember at the moment!

Ms. DelGado is joining us this year.  She will be working with classes as requested by teachers on skills such as APA and MLA formatting.  Please say hello and welcome her to our family.  

Mrs. Treacy is working on updating the sign-in rosters for the new year.  Remember to sign in with your full name until the rosters are printed.  

Mrs. Lynch and I look forward to an awesome school year.  We will be focusing on Google integration, utilizing our database subscriptions, and of course, sharing our love of books!  I am so very happy to say two of my faves were checked out today!

I will continue to review new books here once the school year routine gets settled.  I'm happy to announce I completed the EdTech Team Teacher Leader cohort, earning As in 6 graduate courses over 12 weeks!  It was not easy, and I am super proud of myself.  

Summer reading forms are due by 9/9.

Follow me on Twitter @RamblingsLMS 

Tweet what you're reading #whhs #read 

All opinions expressed on this blog are solely those of Mrs. W.  

End of Summer

Sadly, the end of summer vacation approacheth.

I did not meet my goal of 30 books, which I'm disappointed about.  The last two weeks have gone whirlwind:

We spent a long weekend in Hershey, which culminated in the Guns n' Roses concert.  AWESOME.

Our house painter is finally available and is starting Monday.  We have aluminum siding, and it had to be sanded and primed in places by us to reduce the cost.

My husband decided he no longer likes our dining room.  We've already tiled a new hearth for the pellet stove.  I waxed the floor yesterday, and my Nana's rocking chair is in a new spot.  Because we just can't do anything the easy way, we are building a home bar.

Mrs. Paredes asked me to present on workshop on Google to Special Area teachers (World Language, Art, Music, Tech. Ed., and Business) on Thursday.

Mrs. Taylor is being pulled from the WHHSLMC to help in the Main Office after we lost a secretary to transfer and another to retirement.  She'll spend the first part of the day there.  Mr. Winters is being pulled to cover the Homework Help Center while Mr. Brown is on paternity leave.  Mrs. DelGado will be coming down from the upstairs computer lab to help us out.  Bookings have already started!

I'm almost done with the work for course #6.  I will have completed the equivalent of 12 graduate credits this summer (6 2 credit classes).  Once my final work is evaluated, I hope to be an EdTech Team Teacher Leader.

Get those summer reading forms in!

Looking forward to seeing you all soon!

Mrs. W.

Follow me on Twitter @RamblingsLMS

All opinions expressed on this blog are solely those of Mrs. W.

The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee

This was suggested by Amazon a while back, and I requested it through WHPL.  It was an enjoyable read overall.

Set in the 1700s, Henry "Monty" Montague is setting off on a Tour, something akin to a Gap Year.   He's been kicked out of school for being gay and is on his last chance to inherit his father's estate.  He's an absolute drunk.  He's in love with his best friend, whom he is not sure is also gay but is most definitely black.  His sister wants to be a doctor, which is ludicrous at the time.  Their father is concerned about the family image, while their mother seems to have postpartum depression after an oops baby.

To "straighten Monty out", his father arranges for he and Percy (the black best friend being raised by white relatives) to go on the Tour but escorted by a rule happy guide, dropping sister Felicity off at Finishing School (not medical school), and then Percy will go to school in Holland while Monty learns the business of running the estate.  That is NOT what ensues.

The three end up having every possible thing go wrong, from pirates to highway robbers to alchemy to Venetian tombs collapsing.

There were several moments I laughed out loud, and I was really pulling for Henry and Percy (and for Felicity to fulfill her dream).

I'm putting this on our wish list!

Follow me on Twitter @RamblingsLMS

Tweet what you're reading #whhs #summerreading

All opinions expressed on this blog are solely those of Mrs. W.

My Lady Jane by Hand, Ashton, and Meadows

I'm sorry, but this book is terrible, and I'm giving up about 1/3 of the way in.

Miss Jackie at WHPL warned me when I picked this up that she disliked it.

I know this is meant to be funny, a parody of a really serious time in England.  I found it annoying and stupid way beyond hilarity.

High court members are shape-shifters, Jane's husband is a horse, Edward isn't really dying.

The real Jane was beheaded by her own family, as was her husband.  It was not funny and most definitely not a happy ending.

No from me.

Follow me on Twitter @RamblingsLMS

Tweet what you're reading #whhs #summerreading

All opinions expressed on this blog are solely those of Mrs. W.