update on in it to win it 9/12

We are just starting the program this week (9/24) at the school.  The students had their first week of no zeros to be able to participate in their chosen activity.  Of 1031 students in the school 500 did not qualify to participate.  They had to go to PAT (Panther Academic Time) and complete their missing assignments.  The 7^th graders had 25 activities to choose from.  They were

Movie Time

Wii Sports

Ind. Music Time

Crazy Cards

Chess / Checkers

Games Galore

Laughter Zone

Crazy Cards

Games Galore

Suddenly Sudoku

Games Galore

Read for a Better Life

Volleyball

Floor Hockey

Online Games

Kickball

Walk and Talk

Water Colors

Cooking Up Snacks

Soccer

Music Time

Talk Time

Book Club

Word Finds

Cultures

The 8^th graders also had 25 choices and they were 

Phone Photo

Computer Games

Games Galore

Crosswords

Dominoes

Suddenly Sudoku

Chess / Checkers

Movie Time

Free Writing

Creating Videos

Listen Music

Online Games

Soccer

Floor Hockey

Online Games

Volleyball

Walk and Talk

Dance Rev.

T-Shirt Design

Kickball

Duct Tape Craft

Talk Time

Karaoke

Read for a better Life

Movie Time

You can see that some of the class choices were the same but there some that were different.  The activities were presented by students and teachers as areas of interest that they would be willing to participate in.  We, as teachers had to submit the list of students to the principal.  He created a Google doc survey where we just imputed the names and it put it into a spread sheet that he could sort and print off attendance where the kids will be going and which ones will be in PAT time and those participating in their activities.  After the first week I have had several students that have been working their butts off not to be in study hall.  I did notice that I had more students this week not qualify because they were missing some video notes that they needed to complete.  But as a whole the school numbers seem to be going down in the study hall category.  The hardest part for the study hall teachers were that the students came in claiming they did not know what they were missing, so teachers started making them copy the dictionaries or wordy documents, like the declaration of independence.  By the second day of study hall the students mysteriously had their missing work.