Mendenhall Family Tradition on
the last day of school
ROOT BEER FLOATS!
Thursday, May 30, 2013
Graduation 2013
It's graduation time in our house again!!
Skyler graduated from 8th Grade today!
Skyler is the 5th one of the kids to graduate
from Warren Jr. High.
Way to go Skyler!
High School here you come!!
Wednesday, May 29, 2013
Date Night
Buena Vista Elementary School had
Mother/Son Date Night at
the movie theatre.
Briggor and I saw "EPIC" with a his friends and
their moms.
Great night with my son!
Honor Roll
Congratulations to Briggor for making 4th Quarter Honor Roll!
He ended his 2nd grade year with:
3 Quarters of Honor Roll
and
1 Quarter of Principals List
Pinto B Tournament of Champions - METS - 1st place Team
After an exciting, amazing, baseball game played by 7 and 8 year olds...
the Pinto B division METS won the
Tournament of Champions!
It came down to a tie score at the end of the 6th inning.
They had to play til a team won.
The Mets got the Dodgers out in the top of the 7th.
Mets ended up with runners on 2nd and 3rd place with
1 out. All we needed was a base hit to win.
Ethan hit a base hit right over 2nd base to
bring in the winning run!!
It was amazing!
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| Final Score |
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| Waiting for their medals |
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| Pinto B Division Mets |
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| The coaches |
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| Briggor and Coach Mike |
Friday, May 24, 2013
Baseball End of Season Party
After our last game of the season, Briggor's Coach Mike invited the
whole team and their families to his house for a BBQ, swimming and awards!
The boys had a great time!
Thank You Neighbors!!!
Thanks to the neighbors behind us.....we now have a block wall in our backyard.
Briggor's Open House
Briggor had his 2nd Grade Open House last week.
We first visited the Edible Schoolyard which
is directly across the street from the school.
The classroom spends 1 day a week in
the garden or kitchen.
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| Outdoor pizza oven - YUM! |
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| Briggor showing us the way! |
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| The Chicken Coop |
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| Current Student and Past Buena Vista Alumni |
After our visit to the garden, we walked across
the street to see what Briggor has been up to this year.
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| The cycle of a Frog |
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| Abraham Lincoln Report |
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| Mrs. Unruh, Briggor and Mrs. Clerou Briggor was in a 2/3 Combo Class this year. The two teachers above co-taught all year. |
8th Grade End of Year Essay by Skyler Mendenhall
Skyler Mendenhall
P. 7-8 5/14/13
End of the Year Essay
Towards the end of my sixth grade year at
Buena Vista, I was nervous. The whole sixth grade went through the Warren
orientation and it was mind blowing how everything worked… I had seven other
classes, different teachers, and a whole year of it… The main problem that I
was concerned about was if I was going to be able to find my classes. After the
first two weeks at Warren, I realized it wasn’t hard at all! It was actually
easier than I thought it was and I started to like Jr. High!
I think the most difficult class for both of
my years at Warren would be math. The homework assignments would just keep
piling one after the other. The classes seemed to move very quickly, but I
learned to stay focused, keep on task, and turn the assignments in on time.
From then on the class just seemed to get easier.
My favorite class was physical education.
Every day the assignments were just games, and every single one of them was
fun! My favorite game was Jurassic Park. During the game, you had to collect
four balls from three other teammates and when you did you won. But when you
played you had to wear a flag which determined if you would start back at your
base or not. And that only happened when the flag was pulled. Altogether, it
was an amazing class.
My main goal is going to be making honor roll
all four quarters in a row. Since we are nearing the end of the year, there is
no way that I am not going to make this last quarter. I have pushed myself to
the very best of my abilities, and I am very proud of myself as well as my Mom
and Dad. I know that high school is going to be a bigger challenge for me, and
I am going to have to step up my game a lot.
The most useful skill I obtained during the
past two years would be patients, determination, and focusing. In sixth grade I
rushed to be finished with everything first and often times found my grade
suffering for it. Now that I am older and more mature I have found it easier to
slow down and actually think about the right things to put down on that piece
of paper. The best part of high school I am looking forward to is playing
football! I am very talented in it, and hope to better my skill for it in the
future.
Mother's Day Weekend
The Friday before Mother's Day weekend, I drove down south to pick up my mom and
bring her back to our house for the weekend.
We arrived in town to pick up Briggs from the bus stop.
He had saved up Dewar's gift cards and wanted to take Beema out
for ice cream. So we did.......
The girls enjoyed some time with their Beema.
These two are the few that put ketchup on their tacos!!
My mom took me step by step to make our family's
stuffed cabbage recipe. YUM!!! My mom and
I were the only ones that ate it!
On Saturday morning, the girls and I took Beema to
breakfast at Cafe Crepes! Then we saw Briggor's baseball game!
On Sunday, Mother's Day, we slept in.
Mark and the kids took off early and surprised my mom and I with
Starbucks coffee, donuts, flowers and cards!
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| This beautiful bouquet was for my mom! |
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| These gorgeous flowers were for me! |
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| This is the card from the kids! |
We had a fun and busy weekend!
Great memories were made!
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Combined Arms Live Fire Exercise in Kuwait
Published on May 8, 2012
Live fire exercise with Soldiers of Cobra Company, HHC's Mortars and Scouts, 15th Mubarak, 1-82 Field Artillery Battalion, and Apache Air Weapons Teams in support of Operation Golden Lancers in Kuwait
***Andrew participated in this drill this last week. This video was from last year during this time. He wanted us to hear and see what he was experiencing. This also happened during a sandstorm.
Monday, May 13, 2013
Royal Reader
Briggor had a special day to read a book to the class. It had to be a short entertaining book which he was able to read in front of the whole class. He wasn't nervous at all. He was looking forward to it. This is a picture of Briggor and the book he chose to read.
Sunday, May 12, 2013
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