it is so cold! my mother keeps trying to trouch me with her COLD hands, because she says I am warm but I don't feel that way!
As I am sure you have all heard I didn't do such a great job at sub-sections for speech.
I don't know what happend! I would get up on the stage all ready with my speech the judge would give me the okay. and every single thing I had been going over for the half-hour befor went zizzing out the window and I was left looking very foolish in front of alot of people that I don't know but will probaly see again next year!
also I had the worst luck of judges! I got this one lady who thought I was blowing out her eardrums and that she was hearing impaired and how bad she felt for every one else in the room! also she said my intro was too depressing! and storytelling was supposed to be fun! when half of he stories that give us are really depressing! this judge is also known for being really
slow.
But I am looking forward to next year I am going to try creative expression that is where you write your own piece. I have a idea, and I have started it, but right now I am stuck. and my m,om says it's okay that I am stuck because I have not quite a year before I have before speech starts again so I will keep blundering on with it.
- Rachel
Saturday, March 31, 2007
Speech Results
Two very tired kids arrived home at 2 am this morning after a very long car ride on bad road conditions. I was a nervous wreck. I had watched the news before going to bed and wished I hadn't as the weather forecasters talked about how awful things were right in the area the kids were coming from and it was moving north.
Stephen and Anna placed third in the duos and will be moving on to sections. They have room for improvement which I think they both knew as Thursday night they were still deciding exactly what the piece would include to make sure it was under the 8 minute time limit. They can now spend the next two weeks working on the specifics of the piece and making each as good as they can make it.
Rachel and her friend Hannah (the only two 7th graders on the team) did not qualify for sections. Rachel was pretty disappointed. Everyone on the team said they were shocked at the number of participants in the category. Several of the kids who have been in speech for five and six years said there had never been even 12 kids in the category and 12 qualify for sections, so in previous years she would have qualified just by being in the Storytelling category. This year there were 16 storytellers at subsections and only 12 move on. Storytelling was tied with dramatic duo (Stephen and Anna's category) for the most entries. Technically duo had 19 but 3 didn't reach the ending round (I didn't understand last night, if they were no-shows who had signed up and gotten sick or something or if they were disqualified during one of the rounds.)
I'm sure Stephen will post something on his blog at some point this weekend about his reactions to the meet and I will encourage Rachel to post her thoughts and reflections on her first season competing in speech. She said she was really thrown by the timers in the room, all three showed the time remaining differently and she was very conscious of the time and felt like she kept forgetting her place in the story. That will be something for the team to work on next year, will be to help kids adjust to being timed, as none of the meets up to this point have worried about the time component of the categories.
Stephen and Anna placed third in the duos and will be moving on to sections. They have room for improvement which I think they both knew as Thursday night they were still deciding exactly what the piece would include to make sure it was under the 8 minute time limit. They can now spend the next two weeks working on the specifics of the piece and making each as good as they can make it.
Rachel and her friend Hannah (the only two 7th graders on the team) did not qualify for sections. Rachel was pretty disappointed. Everyone on the team said they were shocked at the number of participants in the category. Several of the kids who have been in speech for five and six years said there had never been even 12 kids in the category and 12 qualify for sections, so in previous years she would have qualified just by being in the Storytelling category. This year there were 16 storytellers at subsections and only 12 move on. Storytelling was tied with dramatic duo (Stephen and Anna's category) for the most entries. Technically duo had 19 but 3 didn't reach the ending round (I didn't understand last night, if they were no-shows who had signed up and gotten sick or something or if they were disqualified during one of the rounds.)
I'm sure Stephen will post something on his blog at some point this weekend about his reactions to the meet and I will encourage Rachel to post her thoughts and reflections on her first season competing in speech. She said she was really thrown by the timers in the room, all three showed the time remaining differently and she was very conscious of the time and felt like she kept forgetting her place in the story. That will be something for the team to work on next year, will be to help kids adjust to being timed, as none of the meets up to this point have worried about the time component of the categories.
Thursday, March 29, 2007
Diane under attack!!
Just checking out how to add a photo to our blog. I'm not even sure when this picture taken, but it is a good one. She was feeding PeeCee and Tucker (the gray one) healthy cat treats.
Rehearsal
As I write this, Anna and Stephen are practicing their piece for speech. Sub-sections are tomorrow afternoon. They will leave school about noon. The meet starts at four, awards are scheduled for 9 pm and they should get home about 1 am on Saturday. We have found a ride home for them as both Jeff and I have to work on Saturday.
We will have the kids wake us up when they get in and get the results from them. We will head to work and one of us will post the results right here Saturday morning.
It is difficult to write as their piece is very entertaining. They are behind me, our backs are to each other. I hope I'm not distracting them as much as they are distracting me, but they seem to be doing fine.
Rachel is upstairs watching the movie Zoom. She is nervous about tomorrow and is distracting herself watching movies.
It has been a long week even though I had Monday off. I took it off for a day I worked earlier in March and Monday was our 19th anniversary. It is amazing to think that we have been married almost 20 years.
Well, dinner is almost ready so I will close for now.
Diane
We will have the kids wake us up when they get in and get the results from them. We will head to work and one of us will post the results right here Saturday morning.
It is difficult to write as their piece is very entertaining. They are behind me, our backs are to each other. I hope I'm not distracting them as much as they are distracting me, but they seem to be doing fine.
Rachel is upstairs watching the movie Zoom. She is nervous about tomorrow and is distracting herself watching movies.
It has been a long week even though I had Monday off. I took it off for a day I worked earlier in March and Monday was our 19th anniversary. It is amazing to think that we have been married almost 20 years.
Well, dinner is almost ready so I will close for now.
Diane
Monday, March 26, 2007
Welcome to the first posting of the Adams Family Blog
Rachel
welcome I have been wanting to do a blog for some time now and I am hoping that having a family blog will help me remember to post more often.
I am looking forward to starting soccer a getting in shape again ( I hate running one lap around the track in gym and then being out of breath)
I am also looking forward to subsections in speech this Friday I did really well for a 7th grader this last saterday I got last in the first round ( that isn't that good) but I got 2nd in the 2nd round and I got 3rd in the 3rd round. normaly I get 5th or 4th in my rounds so I was really excited for the 2nd and the 3rd. But the school had really small classrooms so trying to fit 6 or 7 people in one room was really hard! So as I was saying I am really excited and hoping to do well this Friday.
Mom:
Welcome! We have been meaning to start a family blog for some time now and Rachel and I decided that this afternoon was the time. We will attempt to post photos, news and other information about the Adams family doings on a regular basis.
Jeff and I celebrated 19 years of marriage today. It is hard to imagine that so many years have passed since the day we vowed to love one another in front of so many friends and family.
Be sure to check out Stephen's blog at Tales from the Northwoods - http://talesfromthenorthwoods.blogspot.com/index.html
He hasn't updated recently but has been rather busy with speech season and now track. Sub-sections for speech are this Friday. Rachel is hoping to qualify for sections in storytelling as a 7th grader, especially after her wonderful job this past Saturday in Hermantown. She was one point from Honorable mention. Stephen and Anna are hoping to win the duo competition. They went to state last year and are definitely counting on a return trip this year, but would also like to win the sub-sections tournament, if not sections.
welcome I have been wanting to do a blog for some time now and I am hoping that having a family blog will help me remember to post more often.
I am looking forward to starting soccer a getting in shape again ( I hate running one lap around the track in gym and then being out of breath)
I am also looking forward to subsections in speech this Friday I did really well for a 7th grader this last saterday I got last in the first round ( that isn't that good) but I got 2nd in the 2nd round and I got 3rd in the 3rd round. normaly I get 5th or 4th in my rounds so I was really excited for the 2nd and the 3rd. But the school had really small classrooms so trying to fit 6 or 7 people in one room was really hard! So as I was saying I am really excited and hoping to do well this Friday.
Mom:
Welcome! We have been meaning to start a family blog for some time now and Rachel and I decided that this afternoon was the time. We will attempt to post photos, news and other information about the Adams family doings on a regular basis.
Jeff and I celebrated 19 years of marriage today. It is hard to imagine that so many years have passed since the day we vowed to love one another in front of so many friends and family.
Be sure to check out Stephen's blog at Tales from the Northwoods - http://talesfromthenorthwoods.blogspot.com/index.html
He hasn't updated recently but has been rather busy with speech season and now track. Sub-sections for speech are this Friday. Rachel is hoping to qualify for sections in storytelling as a 7th grader, especially after her wonderful job this past Saturday in Hermantown. She was one point from Honorable mention. Stephen and Anna are hoping to win the duo competition. They went to state last year and are definitely counting on a return trip this year, but would also like to win the sub-sections tournament, if not sections.
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