Another New Look
October 25, 2009
If its Fall again, it must be time to update the look of Mr Papa’s World. Upon arriving at the site now, you will obviously notice a big difference from the previous look. I have tried to update the site theme based upon my more recent usage of the site.
Instead of the light colors, its a bit darker now. And the twitter feed is more prominent. I have found myself making more tweets than posts these days. Yall really should follow me on Twitter. In addition, the front page now contains mainly excerpts and titles of my (or our with Suzanne’s activity here of late) latest posts. It might take some of you (Hi Mom!) longer to get used to the new site than others.
All current subscriptions to the site should still be valid and the daily email will still contain links to the posts. While not quite appearing the same, you can still find the most recent posts right in the center of the page. Once you venture off the main page, you will see them listed in the sidebar.
I have also spent some time with the new theme (started with base theme from Darren Hoyt) and customized it to my needs. I think the photo gallery, one of the most visited pages on this site, to be structured in a nice new way. I still have a bit of cleanup and tweaking to do, but I feel its ready to unveil the new Mr Papa’s World.
As always, let me know what you think of the new Mr Papa’s World appearance in the comments.
Report Cards, Teacher Conferences, and High School Selection
October 20, 2009
Last Friday was a busy day as we had our parent teacher conferences with the middle school teachers and got the kids report cards. Sean had all A’s with a 4.05 GPA Gold Honor Roll. Savannah just missed Gold Honor Roll with a 3.9 GPA Silver Honor Roll. The teachers said that the 3.9 is excellent for a first semester middle school students. All the teachers were very complimentary on the kids work ethic and abilities. They all said that they push the kids to do even more because they are able to get their work done so quickly during class time.
After the conferences Sean and I headed out to one of the close by high schools to determine if that is where he wants to go to school next year. The close by district has a full size high school with about 500 students per class, and a smaller high school that limits enrollment to 235 students per grade. If they have more than that apply to the school they determine enrollment by lottery, but last year they only had 237 apply so they took them all. Each of the two school offers different extra curriculars and electives, but the smaller school is all laptop based so the students don’t have to haul around text books. Sean would rather go to the smaller school, but if he doesn’t get in he feels like the larger school is a good alternative. I liked the school and since they provide bus transportation from our area the location is good too. Sean’s current teachers want him to start honors classes next year, and both schools offer honors classes for Freshmen. He is pretty excited and though he’ll be checking out other schools, is pretty sure that he wants to go to one of these two.
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