SPRING BREAK!!

Spring is in the air at RHS! I hope you all are having a wonderful Spring Break. We will only have a few weeks left in the school year once you return. Do you understand now why the upperclassmen have told you that your high school years will go by fast? This one sure has.

I want to let you know how I have spent the last few days. I have been in Baton Rouge attending the Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) State Convention. RHS students again performed well with many students qualifying for Nationals in individual as well as group events. Nationals will be held in Nashville, Tennessee this year, and are scheduled for Orlando, Florida next year. I encourage you to get involved in this organization. You will have a chance to join clubs at the beginning of next year, and if you are interested in a career in any business or marketing field, come join the other students who make FBLA at RHS one of the premier chapters in the State of Louisiana. Oh, when you see John H., your fellow classmate, congratulate him for his 1st place finish in Business Math. Way to go John!!

I would also like to take this time to recognize the freshmen Bearcats who performed in Bearcats on Broadway, the RHS advance choir spring production. These students have exceptional talent, and along with their other cast members, brought down the house at the Dixie Theater in Ruston. If you missed seeing Devin P., Cassidy K., Anna H., Caitlin F., Ryan B., Hannah T., Octavious W., and Jarvis J., you missed a great show.

I hope you enjoy the remainder of your Spring Break and come back to school ready to end the year with a BANG! Stay safe, and I will see you on April 6th!

What a Day!!

Well, the first part of Spring testing has come and gone! Today, I gave the writing portion of the GEE to my Sophomore homeroom. You ask what that has to do with RHS Career Choices? It's simple. These freshmen will be sophomores soon, and have this test to look forward to. The students handled the pressure well. As for the teacher, maybe not so well. Testing is stressful on everyone involved!

Back to Career Choices. Today in the Computer Applications portion of the class, we began our unit on Memos. Students were taught the differences between a memo and a letter, and how the memo is used in an organization. We then covered the margins of a memo and how to set those margins in Word. They then keyed their first memo! The question asked most often today was "why do I put my initials at the bottom?" It was difficult for the students to understand that even though they were typing the memo, the memo was not from them but from the writer. I explained that the writer was "the boss" and they were the "secretary" (which the guys didn't like). If there was a problem with the memo when the "boss" read it, the initial would tell him/her who to go to for an answer. This helped them to understand. Tomorrow we will continue formatting memos, and by the end of the week, the students will be writing their own memo to Mr. Milstead!

I chose to create this blog for Freshmen at RHS. I will post daily assignments to give students who were not present in class a chance to make the work up or at least know what was missed before returning to class. This will also serve as a way for parents to stay informed as to what is going on in their child's class. I will also post information about upcoming events (games, jeans days, cheerleader tryouts, etc.) so the students can stay informed about the things going on at RHS that directly affect them as freshmen.

Blog #1

Well, the first step, creating a blog, didn't hurt too bad. Now I must read and figure out how to apply this in my class!