New Exploratories
By: Kayla M.

As you all know the end of the semester is coming up. This means a lot of things. One of which is that you can choose new exploratories. They will pass around a new paper like they did at the beginning of the year. I will be talking with the exploratory teachers to kind of figure out what they plan to do during the rest of the year. I will also talk with the students to figure out why they like their exploratory. This week we will be focusing on French, World Travelers (new exploratory), and Newspaper.

The newspaper class is a really fun class. If you like to ask questions and write about them. It's really fun when someone writes in to your article. Ms. Osborn teaches it. It's also very fun when we take pictures!

Ms. Osborn said that she was going to try to involve the community more in the newspaper articles. She said that now since we have the new netbooks, we can send our newspaper articles to the community. She also wants to focus on longer and more articles.

French is taught by Mrs. Wertz. A student from the French class said that they pretty much learn words in French. So if you would like to learn some cool sounding words you should try it.

Mrs. Wertz is planning to learn about French speaking countries this semester. She plans to go to those places using the netbooks. Because there are more French speaking countries besides France.

As you know Mrs. Wertz also teaches Bookmaking. She has decided to change it to World Travelers. In this class they resarched different countries and did different things like tasted food from that country. A couple people heard that it was coming and already are thinking about signing up.

Now you know some of the choices that your facing. You can also see that most of these exploratories involve the new netbooks.(Which we hope you all are enjoying.) Next week I will try to get as many exploratories in as possible before the end of the semester.