Our Back To School Celebration Open House brought many to Pueblo to tour the campus.
Parents and students had an opportunity to talk to club sponsors and athletics coaches during the club & sports crawl. Then parents followed their child’s regular day schedule and visited all their classrooms to listen to teacher presentations. Teachers then discussed their course curriculum and requirements.
We thank everyone for their effort in making this a successful event. See you at our next Open House.
Pueblo High School Dirt Track Race Car took it to them in the shorten 15 lap feature at USA RaceWay this past weekend.
Driver, Trevor Hidalgo, drove one heck of a race. Pueblo started 6th in the first heat race of the night. The race car was a hand full as Trevor spun out on lap 2 of a 6 lap race finishing 7th out of 8 cars. Pueblo then had to race their way into the main event by going through the B main. They started 10th in a 14 car field where only 8 cars qualify for the A main.
Crew members had worked on the car before hand in hopes to improve the cars handling. On the first lap of the B main the number 13 car came down into the Pueblo car pushing them off the track. The car hit a tractor tire smashing the front end. Trevor stood on the gas and finished 4th in the B main qualifying Pueblo for the A main. The team went to work as they had to fix the car before the main event. They used everything from bailing wire, duck tape and bubble gum to put the race car back together. They started 18th in a 20 car field.
Trevor quickly made his way through traffic and as he avoided wrecks in front of him to finish 4th in the A main, Pueblo’s best finish ever in this car!
Pueblo Dirt Track Racing’s next Pueblo Motor Sports event is August 28 at Southwestern International Speed Way, where Edwin Garcia will be racing for Pueblo’s first track Championship in 7 years. Edwin is in 2nd place in points. If he wins he will win the SIR track Championship. The team has also been invited to the 2009 Division 7 National Championships in Phoenix October 5-8 for the fist time since 2001.
The vary next day, Saturday, August 29 they will be racing the Dirt Track Car at USA RaceWay in hopes to improve their 4th place finish and crack the Top 3!
Several of our teachers wanted to share their travels this summer. Here are a few so far and we hope to be adding to this post as more pictures come in.
For more information on the pictures visit the Wikipedia links on the description of the pictures.
I took a group of nine students to Europe for three weeks this summer. We toured London, Paris, Lucerne, Florence, Rome, Pompeii, Delphi, Athens, and took a Greek Island cruise. While on the cruise we toured Ancient Ephesus in Kusadasi, Turkey. This is a picture of the Ancient Library of Celsus in Ephesus, Turkey which was constructed in 125 A.D and was one of the largest libraries of the ancient world. The site is currently only about 20% excavated. Interestingly enough the town brothel was located directly across from the library. (Gunnels)
St. Basil’s Cathedral in Red Square, Moscow. (Spalding)
Eiffel Tower, Paris. (Spalding)
2 days a week we had the open air market called a “shuk”. The produce was fresh and more people frequented the market than the grocery store. It was also a nice way to meet your neighbors. (Ostroff)
This is either a picture of me looking for my contact lens or…. I am mixing cement and putting them in buckets for the kids at the elementary school in Kiryat Malachi (City of Angels) in Israel. We put the cement over recycled tires filled with recycled plastic soda bottles to make benches for the playground. That is my story and I’m sticking to it. The kids and their families are immigrants from Ethiopia, Moracco, and the Soviet Union. (Ostroff)
This summer, I traveled through New Mexico and visited the approximately 1,000 year old Taos Pueblo. It was my first visit and it won’t be my last! (Bonati)
These are two of the fours beaches in my neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro. This summer I walked on the sand of the beach on the right many days, listening to my Ipod and enjoying the breeze from the ocean. (Parsons)
I went to the Mayan Riviera area, near Cancun, with my sister. This photo is from the top of the pyramid in Cobá, with a view of the lush plains typical of the Yucatán peninsula. (Cortes)
This is a picture of the Grand Mosque in Djenne, Mali. It was originally built in the Middle Ages, and is the largest mud structure in the world. (Randy Spalding)
I went to West Central Utah with my sister and her family to go fossil hunting & rock hounding in July. We found trilobites, a fossilized water mark, amonites, braciopods, fossilized coral, agate, Apache tear, obsidian, and sunstone. We traveled across 10-24 million year old lava flows, the Bonneville salt flats, and Crystal Mountain. We saw 6 extinct volcanoes, prong-horn antelope, lizards, jack rabbits and a Pony Express route marker. We came back with over 400 samples of fossils & rocks. (Bonnie Stull)
Pueblo will be hosting it’s annual Back To School Celebration on August 26th from 6:00 – 8:30 p.m. Everyone attending will have an opportunity to meet with coaches, club sponsors, and our Athletic Director to learn more about our extracurricular activities. Teachers will be available to discuss course requirements and classroom expectations.
EVENTS SCHEDULE
6:00-6:50 Patio Club & Sports Crawl
Coaches and club sponsors will be available in the patio to provide information about their programs and answer questions about how to get involved in extracurricular activities at Pueblo.
Entrenadores y patrocinadores de clubes estarán disponibles en el patio para proveer información acerca de sus programas, y para contestar preguntas acerca de como participar en las actividades extracurriculares de Pueblo.
6:00-7:00 Attendance Office Schedule Pick-Up
The office staff will be available to provide copies of student schedules for parents.
El personal de la oficina estará disponible para proveer a padres de familia con copias de los horarios de clases de los estudiantes.
6:00- 8:30 Counseling Office Parental Access Information
Counselors will be available to print parental access information for parents. The information will provide you with the information that you need to look up student information such as grades and attendance online.
Los consejeros estarán disponibles para imprimir información de acceso para padres. Esta información proveerá las herramientas que ustedes necesitan para revisar las calificaciones y asistencia del estudiante.
7:00-8:30 Classrooms Presentations by Teachers
Parents will have the opportunity to visit their student’s classrooms and meet their teachers. Parents will move from class to class with six-minute passing periods.
Los padres tendrán la oportunidad de conocer a los maestros y visitar los salones de clases de sus estudiantes.
We will use the following bell schedule for these presentations:
Usaremos el siguiente horario para las presentaciones:
1st Period: 7:00-7:10
2nd Period: 7:16-7:26
3rd Period: 7:32-7:42
4th Period: 7:48-7:58
5th Period: 8:04-8:14
6th Period: 8:20-8:30