Still Enjoying September

September around the country marks the beginning of school and the beginning of fall. In Arizona it's still hot; and school started in August; and there are no Maple trees turning orange.



Another September

If you still remember
September marks time
Leaving these rainy days behind
Some people were still here with us
Some people dear to us
Some recognized evil
A new love a new enemy
Sometimes the enemy is me

Another September could only bring some change
Some things in our lives to rearrange
Some feeling between us strange
We become strangers
We become silent
We share our silence
And we are separated by the silence
Between us

Another September
May bring to me
Other dear people
To see life in a new way
To get closer to God
To get in touch with myself

Another September
Will lock and hide somewhere
Last September’s memories
and bring with it a new beginning

Places I’ve been to
Last September
I’ve not set foot there
This other September
I ran away
Towards new ones
I've become a new person

Last September is a dream
Memories of times gone
This September is reality
Sometimes reality stinks
Life being lived at the moment now
I've become who I am

Language Arts
AR is up and running. Each week the students are being asked to print out their AR quizzes taken and bring them to language arts every Thursday so we can update our grade book and attach the quizzes taken sheet to the Friday progress report. Good communications and with parents, and weekly accountability will help the students to be ready for middle school.

Daily journal writes can be fun. Look what Pablo did with "Why is math an important subject?"

As much as I do agree with you,
oh whimsical talking chalking chalkboard,
we do have calculators.

Although math is valuable and strange at times
staring in your direction - calculus!
it is indeed important to life
(and when is dividing by zero useful or important again?)
and much needed, yeah,
to over complicate things!
But, I beg to ask,
why do we need to learn
division, subtraction, addition or multiplication
if we have these wondrously powerful inventions?

Ha! I spit on your so called,
"Long Division" phooey! to mankind!
Sigh, oh whimsical magical
walking, talking, chalking,
chalkboard-o-magicalness
you must feel my pain,
chalkity, chalkity, chalk.