In late March, early April our school took the SBAC tests (Smarter Balanced Assessments). The students put forth much effort towards the testing and as a reward our Student Government planned a Spirit Week. Spirit Week is filled with so many activities.
*Dress Up Days (Individual homerooms get points for the number of students in the homeroom participating in the dress up day.) Each day (Monday thru Thursday) students got to dress up according to the day to gain points for their homeroom.
The days were as follows:
- Sports Day- wear your favorite team’s sports gear
- Old Folks Day
- Twin Day- dress like a someone else
- Dress like a Teacher Day
* Homeroom Competition: Ten homerooms at each grade level compete against each other for the coveted Spirit Cup Trophy.
The week ended with a pep rally- a friendly competition between grade level homerooms.
Students participated in events such as:
- limbo
- musical chairs
- hula hoop
- hula hoop relay
- pie eating contest
Students who placed first, second, and third earned points for their homeroom. I am sorry to say my homeroom did not win, maybe next year:)
During this event cluster teachers got into the action too- they shot basketball hoops against teachers in the opposing grade level cluster. I am proud to say for sixth grade, my cluster 6B- shot 12 baskets first! YES!!!!!!!
The final activity of the pep rally competition was Mr. Rinas’ trick shot- Mr. Rinas needed to shoot a basketball off the side wall of the gym and make a shot. If he made the shot, the volunteer teachers got to pie a student with shaving cream. If he missed, then the student got to pie the teacher. I will let the pictures speak for themselves.
It was all in good FUN!!!! The events of the day and even the week really provided an environment of excitement.
It was a spirited week that ended with the whole school gathering and viewing videos based on the theme of movies. Each cluster produced their own video involving all the students. Some clusters based their videos on Frozen, Divergent ,or even Disney Villian Queens. Our cluster based it on Footloose and how dancing was banned, and one student went on a quest to bring it back.
Spirit week was the perfect way to bring each grade level and the whole school together!
