Week 2 Nicollet 35 - Madelia 8
Very nice game for the Raiders as they took it to the conference rival Blackhawks.  Dalton had a nice night throwing the ball, with 4 TD's and zero int's.  Tanner with limited carriers had 70 yards and a TD.  Nice defensive night as the Raiders shutdown the Blackhawk passing game and forced them to run the ball with very limited success.  Big win with no injuries, what more can you ask for.

I'm so taking credit for the latest fb art project!  and yes if my kids had a tatoo it would read I luv MOM

First day of school learning

The first day of school went well.  We were a little bit off schedule as we had an unexpected (but welcome) visitor.  Our first order of the day was to change out the nature table from ‘summer’ to ‘fall’!  The kids handed me stuff as I arranged it on the nature table.  I am sure we will have many more things to add as we take nature walks and get more into the fall season but for now, it’s just lovely and clean.

Box #1: Nature Study!  Today we got to compare bird nests that we have found over the summer.

This was a all kid activity.  They each got one and they described it as the others wrote down what they said on a comparison and contrast worksheet.

Box #2 - Animal Farm Game - was just for Logan.  He read all these and placed them so fast that I think I may have to make some harder cards for him!  The farm is expanding!

 

Box #3 was our interview box.  He wrote his name (with no help, I really wanted to see his progress between now and the end of the year), and then drew a picture of himself.

The interview was here.

Box #4 was a jar and some craft sticks.  Each day we put one craft stick in the jar.  Each tenth day we bundle the craft sticks together showing counting by tens.  However, today we only had one craft stick in our jar.  Hardly picture worthy. 

Box #5 - Cyan and Logan played number dominos!  They were both really good at it.  I am going to have to get a set of real dominos and look up the rules for another day.

Box #6 was wet on wet watercolor.

This was a Cyan and Logan activity.

Box #7 was the Dolch Word Kit.  We just worked on review for today.

Box #8 was Digraph Sorting from Pinterest.

 

Box #9 was a “September Me” from A Year of Kindergarten Writing.

No box #10 today…  just lunch!

All in all it was a great day!

First day of school ~ Interviews

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Interview with Logan ~ First day of Kindergarten

“I HAVE A LOOSE TOOTH!!!!”

Favorites:

Color - Golden

Season - Winter with the snow, but wait!  Halloween!  Those are both my favorites!

Food - Pizza!  Corn chowder and mac & cheese, and tomato soup.

Animal - It’s a River Monster - an Alligator Gar - but I haven’t watched all their seasons yet so I don’t know.  Something could be cooler.

What do you want to learn about this year?

I want to learn two things - piano and ninja moves.  I already know one.  I know how to build stuff pretty well.  I didn’t say I want to learn it…  just that I know how.

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Interview with Cyan ~ First day of 6th Grade

Favorites:

Color - Peach (Like a sunset)

Season - Depends on the sun or snow.  Seriously, it depends on how much sun or snow there is.  Cuz if there’s lots of sun yu can go swimming and if there’s lots of snow you can go snowmobiling and that’s tons of fun!

Food - Potatoes

Animal - Horse

What would you like to learn this year?

More history with my friends.  I think the books “Love that Dog” and “Hate that Cat” were really good so I want to learn more about poetry and stuff like that.  I want to do singing lessons because I want to be a singer and I want to be a babysitter for dogs and children.  Like taking care of dogs.  Kinda want to learn how to make crepes because Alex doesn’t always want to do it… and pancakes!  I want to learn more about how to be in movies.  I think that would be cool. 

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Interview with Alex ~ First day of 10th Grade

Favorites:

Color - Ocean Blue

Season - Spring - I love all the colors.

Animal - felis domesticus - Cat

Food - Sliced apples and pickles

What do you want to learn this year?

I want to learn how to socialize and how to blow things up with chemicals.  I want to learn how to play the piano and how to actually draw stuff.  I want to learn basic gymnastics cuz I feel like I’d be good at it but I’d be terrified to do a flip cuz I feel like I’d break my neck!  I also want to learn to write fancy (calligraphy) and how to sing.  OH!  Walk a tightrope.  And photography.  That’s all.  Oops, I forgot, I want to learn to dance, too.

Let the school year begin!!!

Raider's open with a win!

Tanner had 129yards rushing Thusday night with one TD in our win over South West United.

Snapshots from the scrimmage....Game on Thursday

Tanner & Dalton next to each other

Dalton throwing a moneyball

2012 Captains

Tanner at the bottom of the pile bringing the reciever down!

UPDATE

2012 Raider Team

Bro Hand me the ball!



Alumni Scrimmage Tabor in Grey

Wow what a difference a new computer makes.  Pretty odd that my parents and our computer crashes on the same night we have a little thunderstorm!  So well let's get caught up on what the boys are doing..........Football has started.....Darin still coaching the line.  Dalton is over 6 foot now and getting some press about the upcoming season.  Tanner is looking to have a great season and applied for Kansas State and will major in milling science.  Tabor has had a rough August!  At his physical he found out he as juvenile arthritis in both knees.  And one week later he had to have his jaw dislocated to remove his wisdom teeth.   Well but the good news is college starts on Monday and is all moved in to his new house with his chosen roommate's(yeah for the 2nd yr).  He will be able to come home some weekends to help do some stats during the game.  As for myself I pray everyday that they all just stay healthy and I will blink and it will be Thanksgiving!