Mr. Rott's Blog for the week of April 25 - 29th

Howdy Partners!

Its been a while... but here we are .. Hmmm I think we have like 35ish actual school days left.. Hard to believe isn’t it! I want to say that you little cowpokes did fabuliso on the State Math Test! It’s like some of you rode that mean old bull way past the 8 second! Everyone worked as hard as they could and even some.. Believe it or not want to get back on that wild bronc and ride, I mean take that test again!

OLD WEST FACT: Chaps
We are not talking chapstick for dry or cracked lips.. Nope this week we are talking about Chaps, which are cowboy leggings, were correctly pronounced "shaps". They're short for chaparejos (shap-ar-EH-hos), which were another important cowboy tool.


Chaps are intended to protect the legs of cowboys from contact with daily environmental hazards experienced in working with cattle, horses and other livestock. They help to protect the riders' legs from injury when riding through brushy terrain that included sagebrush, cacti thorns, mesquite and other thorny vegetation.

The earliest form of protective leather garment was used by mounted riders who herded cattle in Spain and Mexico and were called armas, which meant "shield." Back then, they were essentially two large pieces of cowhide that were used more as a protective apron attached to the horn of the rider's stock saddle. The pieces were spread across both the horse's chest and the rider's legs.


Popular Styles of Chaps
Shotgun Chaps: Also called "Stovepipes" because the legs are straight and narrow. In wide use by the late 1870, they were the earliest design used by Texas cowboys. They feature a snug fit, wrapping completely around the leg and held tight with a full-length zipper running along the outside of the leg from the thigh to just above the ankle. The edge of each legging is usually cut with a slight flare to allow a smooth fit over the arch of a boot. Their tight design was better at trapping body heat, an advantage in windy, snowy or cold conditions. Obviously not so pleasant in very hot or humid weather. Shotgun chaps are more common on ranches in the northwest, Rocky Mountains and northern plains states, as well as Canada. This design is the most common in western horse show competition

Batwing chaps: These are cut wide with a flare at the bottom and are usually made of smooth leather with only two or three fasteners around the thigh. They allow for greater freedom of movement for the lower leg and for easier mounting of a horse. With more air circulation, this design was somewhat cooler for hot weather wear. Batwing chaps are often seen on rodeo riders and on working ranches, particularly in Texas. They were a later design, developed after the end of the open range.

Woolies:  These chaps are a variation on shotgun chaps, made with a fleece or hair-on hide, often angora wool, lined with canvas on the inside. Woolies are the warmest chaps and are associated with the northern plains and Rocky Mountains. They appeared on the Great Plains somewhere around 1887.

Blog questions - MAKE SURE YOU READ THE OLD WEST FACT!!! THAT INCLUDES YOU ROBBie!
1st period: 1) How long have shotgun chaps been around? 2) What about the Woolies, how long have they been around? 3) If a pair of Woolies cost $365.00 and you only had $27.00 how much would you need in order to buy the chaps?

4th & 6th Period Blog Question: Answer all three questions for 1st period along with these two: 4) How many letters are in the words shotgun chaps?______ of those letters the vowels are your numerator what would the numerator be_____? 5) If you had to get shot gun shaps for the whole rodeo flag team and there were 26 people, and each pair of chaps cost $347.54 how much would it cost for your order of chaps__________?

THE 411!
1st Period: Howdy partners! This week we be working on ... hmmm lets see... converting percents, decimals and fractions... its not pretty but its helpful! So pull that hat down tight

4th and 6th Period: You know we just did not get to spend enough time with my dear aunt Sally... so back to it we go! And after that. Mintegers anyone?

GONZAGA MENS BASKETBALL
Don’t stop believing... next fall is not that far away!

Have a wild and woolly ride this week!


As always, you are amazing, incredible people with the whole world waiting to be changed by YOU!

Mr. Rott

Mr. Rotts Classroom Blog for the week of April 23 - 27

 This week, I am sure!! we are going to totally  to enjoy taking the State Math Test... its called OAKS.... any how your 

ONLY homework this week is to go over your notes from last week!! Please use this time to help yourself do your very best on the state math test!

Mr. Rott

Blog for April 11 - 15

Howdy!

This week we will be going over material for the State Math test that we, yes WE will get to do next week.  Your homework for this week is to study the notes that you take during class! 

PLEASE go over your notes from class every night for at least 15 mins ..it will make a difference!

Blog for March 28 - April 1st NO JOKE :)

Howdy Partners!

Holy Cow Batman.. Oops.. Keep forgetting its Cowboys and Cowgirls this year...! Either way... we are back in the saddle... I do hope you had a great break and are all rested up for the big push till the end of the year! Tighten those spurs here we go!


OLD WEST FACT: No Old fact today... look tomorrow :)


1st Period: Howdy partners! This week we are going to perfect our shopping skills.. You know making sure we are finding the BEST deal we can! Its back to percents! We will learn as we shop!


4th and 6th Period: Back to Distance Rate and Speed... we need to finish up on what we started before break.

GONZAGA MENS BASKETBALL

FEEL THE SPIRIT!!!
Well... we at least made it to the Big Dance... no im not talking the one at the Armory! But we lost in the first round... errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr... guess we will just have to wait till next fall! Never give up ... believing!


Have a wild and woolly ride this week!


As always, you are amazing, incredible people with the whole world waiting to be changed by YOU!

Mr. Rott

Blog for March 14 - 18

Howdy Partners!

Yippie ye yeah! One more week until spring break! What are you going to do? Ride some broncs? Rope some calves? Ride the bulls? Hopefully we will have nice weather and you will be able to get outside and enjoy the sunshine... ya can’t play Xbox all day long you know!

OLD WEST FACT: Cowboys and Tsunami?
Well, I doubt the old west cowboys ever even thought, let alone heard of a Tsunami. But you cowboys and cowgirls have heard a lot about Tsunamis’. Just incase you have not learned about what tsunami are I thought we would check out the facts!

I went to the FEMA’s Ready for Kids ( Federal Emergency Management Agency) web site and this is what they had to say, “Tsunami’s are a giant wave produced by underwater movement due to a variety of natural events such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, landslides, and meteorites. Tsunamis generally appear in the Pacific Ocean.


"Tsunami" is a Japanese word. Tsu means "harbor" and nami means "wave."


The website went on to say, That "tsunami (pronounced soo-nahm-ee) is a series of huge waves that happen after an undersea disturbance, such as an earthquake or volcano eruption. (Tsunami is from the Japanese word for harbor wave.) The waves travel in all directions from the area of disturbance, much like the ripples that happen after throwing a rock. The waves may travel in the open sea as fast as 450 miles per hour. As the big waves approach shallow waters along the coast they grow to a great height and smash into the shore. They can be as high as 100 feet. They can cause a lot of destruction on the shore. They are sometimes mistakenly called "tidal waves," but tsunami have nothing to do with the tides.”

And that Hawaii is the state at greatest risk for a tsunami. They get about one a year, with a damaging tsunami happening about every seven years. Alaska is also at high risk. California, Oregon and Washington experience a damaging tsunami about every 18 years.

Some other important facts to know: Tsunamis that strike coastal areas are most always caused by earthquakes may occur far or near where the earthquake starts. Some tsunamis can be very large the height of them can be as great as 30-100 feet, and can travel inland several hundred feet. Tsunamis can strike all low-lying coastal areas and travel up rivers and streams that lead to the ocean. Tsunami are made up of a series of waves and the danger from one can last for several hours after the first wave comes ashore. Sometimes a tsunami can cause the water by the shore to come back, exposing the ocean floor. Tsunamis have a lot of power and can move boats hundreds of feet inland destroying buildings. Tsunamis can happen any time, day or night and can move faster than a person can run.

What to do if you are worried that we are in danger of a tsunami or about others having to experience one. Here are some great helps from Moms Talk:

First turn off the tv... watching what happened in Japan will just keep the fear or anxiety up!
Next, think about these questions, from one mothers children and her answers:
“Could this happen here?" Yes, it could and that is why we have safety drills at school, etc.
“How many people died?" A lot, but I am not sure exactly how many.
“How did they die, did they get squished or drown?" I am not sure.
“Why do earthquakes happen?" Because things underground deep in the earth shift and move sometimes.
“Could I die if an earthquake happened here?" Possibly, but dad and I work very hard to make sure that you are always safe and know what to do in an emergency.
“Will a tsunami reach our house?" Not likely.

 1^st Period: Howdy partners! This week we will finish up Protein Basketball and do some more work on fractions of a number. After that we will spend time understanding percents... you want to be a smart shopper right? Well then you better know your percents! Look for the best this week, I am sure you will find it!

1^st Period Blog questions: Please read over the Old West Fact for the week.#1) What state in the United States is most likely to feel the affects of a tsunami_______? #2) How many miles is it from Newberg to Hawaii (use a ruler 1 inch = about 450 miles) there___________ #3) In the word tsunami how many vowels are there compared to constants______? #4) What would the fraction look like if the vowels were the numerator and all the rest of the letters were the denominator______?


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4^th and 6^th Period: Hey there Cowboys and Cowgirls! Ye Ha! What a great week we have planned.. Or I have planned for you.. This week we will be exploring the formula D=R*T and figuring out that means! Lots of activities this week, so make sure that you are on your best cowboy and cowgirl behavior!

4^th & 6^th Blog questions: Please read over the Old West Fact for the week. .#1) What state in the United States is most likely to feel the affects of a tsunami_______? #2) How many miles is it from Newberg to Hawaii (use a ruler 1 inch = about 450 miles) there___________ #3) In the word tsunami how many vowels are there compared to constants______?  
#4) What would the fraction look like if the vowels were the numerator and all the rest of the letters were the denominator______?
  You will need to go to this website Tsunami  in order to answer the remaining questions #5) What does the "Great Wave Brouchre" say how high can waves become_______? In 1946 how high did the waves become ________ that came to shore?

               GONZAGA MENS BASKETBALL

FEEL THE SPIRIT!!!
Well... Here we go... The Zags are in! Yep they won their conference and as a result of that they will automatically go to the Dance... that means they are going to pay in the NCAA March Madness College Basketball Championship!

It is unknown for sure where the team will play or who, the selection committee makes their choices on “Selection Sunday,” they actually have a name for the day! This takes place on March 13th. With the first four games being played on March 15-16 and then the second round starting March 17th - 18th. The Championship ends on April 2nd - the 4th!
 
Talk about exciting!  Oh and there was nothing better than seeing St. Marys LOSE!!!

Have a wild and woolly ride this week!
As always, you are amazing, incredible people with the whole world waiting to be changed by YOU!

Mr. Rott



Blog for March 7 - 11

Howdy Partners!

Do you think we have had enough rain yet? Remember how nice and green things are this summer and the rain will be a thankful memory... who wants dry ugly trees or hills? The year continues to move along... and move a long and move along... we are in the middle of march.. Well ok pretty close to it! Before you know it youll be relaxing during your Spring Break! Keep pushing yourself, study those notes and work hard!
OLD WEST FACT: Cowboys Hats!

One version goes back to the early 1800's, and that the cowboy hat evolved from the Sombrero.

The story goes that cattle herders, arriving from the East to work on the plains, adopted the sombrero and remodeled it into the cowboy hat that is still currently worn today.

So, the first "cowboys" were the Spanish/Mexican herders of the Southwest. The favored hat of the Mexican vaquero was a broad rimmed hat with a high peaked crown, many times decoratedwith design stitching. The size of the largest brim was 30 galleon, which the new cowboys from the East called "30 Gallon".

Today's cowboy hat has remained basically unchanged in construction and design since the first one was created in 1865. As the story goes, John B. Stetson and some companions went west to seek the benefits of a drier climate. During a hunting trip, Stetson amused his friends by showing them how he could make cloth out of fur without weaving.

After creating his 'fur blanket,' Stetson fashioned an enormous hat with a huge brim as a joke, but the hat was noted to be big enough to protect a man from sun, rain, and all the rigors the outdoors could throw at him. Stetson decided to wear the hat on his hunting trip, and it worked so well that he continued wearing it on his travels throughout the West. In 1865, he began to produce the first incarnation of his big hats in number, and before long, Stetson was considered the maker of this newfangled headwear, the cowboy hat. The original Stetson hat sold for five dollars.
Making hats

1st Period: Howdy partners! As you can tell we have been working on an assortment of math topics, from money to time to fractions... we will continue this for the rest of the year. I want you to remember what we have learned, learn new math skills along with improving your ability to use math in every day experiences... but as always it will be fun!


1st Period Blog questions: Please read over the Old West Fact for the week. You will need to go to this site to help you answer these questions: Quality Hats

#1) How many years has it been since John B. Stetson sold his first hat for $5.00? ___________ #2) Go to Quality Hats and pick out a hat for each member of your family. How many hats did you pick out and list the names of each hat you chose_____ ? #3) What was the total cost for all your hats_______? #4) Look at the total price of all the hats for your family and list the bills and coins you would use to pay for your hats_____.
4th and 6th Period: Hey there Cowboys and Cowgirls! Ye Ha! This week we mosey on over to Ratios... huh? That’s right partners... ratios! Interesting... fun... and as always exciting! I wonder what the ratio is of those who like ratios and those who don’t?

4th & 6th Period Blog questions: Please read over the Old West Fact for the week. You will need to go to this site to help you answer these questions: Quality Hats
#1) How many years has it been since John B. Stetson sold his first hat for $5.00? ___________ #2) Go to Quality Hats and pick out a hat for each member of your family. How many hats did you pick out and list the names of each hat you chose_____ ? #3) What was the total cost for all your hats_______? #4) Look at the total price of all the hats for your family and list the bills and coins you would use to pay for your hats_____. #5) What was the cost of the hat that you chose for yourself______? Of the total cost what percent of the cost was your hat_____?  #6) Search this site: Cowboy Hat Material.. What two materials are used to make cowboy hats______?

GONZAGA MENS BASKETBALL
FEEL THE SPIRIT!!!

Well sharing the 10 West Coast Championship is better than not winning! The Boys keep the streak alive! 11 Years of winning the Conference! Now its off to Las Vegas for the Conference Playoffs and then onto March Madness! Talk about excitement... doesn’t get much better than this!
SCHEDULE:
11/5 vs. Southern Oregon W 90-58
11/12 vs. Southern W 117-72
11/16 vs. San Diego State L 79-76
11/22 Kansas State 6:30 pm L 81 - 64 (OUCH!)
11/23 Marquette 4:57 pm W 66-63
11/30 vs. Eastern Washington W 86-57
12/4 vs. Illinois 2:15 pm L 73-61
12/8 at Washington State L 81 - 59
12/11 at Notre Dame L 83-79
12/16 vs. Lewis-Clark State W 103 - 61
12/18 vs. #9 Baylor W 68- 64
12/22 vs. Xavier W 64- 54
12/29 vs. Lafayette W 83-55
12/31 vs. Oklahoma State W 73 - 63
1-2 vs Wake forest W 73 - 63
1-8 University of Portland W 74 - 61
1-13 vs. Perperdine W 92 - 75
1-15 vs. Loyola Marymount W 79 - 59
1-20 Santa Clara L 75-81
1-22 San Francisco L 91-96
1-27 vs St. Marys L 73- 71
1-29 vs San Diego W 86 - 53
2-3 U of Portland W 67 - 64
2-5 #22 vs Memphis L 62-58
2-10 Loyola Marymount W 67 -57
2-12 Pepperdine W 63 - 44
2-17 vs Santa Clara W 85 - 76
2-19 vs San Francisco W 70 - 53
2-24 St. Marys Great OVER TIME WIN! 89-85
2-26 San Diego W 68-31
2-28 vs Cal State Bakersfield W 96-49

Have a wild and woolly ride this week!

As always, you are amazing, incredible people with the whole world waiting to be changed by YOU!

Mr. Rott

1st period place value link

http://www.mrnussbaum.com/placevaluepirates1.htm

Blog for week of February 22 - 25

Howdy Partners!

Welcome to a new week, a short week. I had great time talking with your parents and those of you cowboys and cowgirls who came out for parent conferences. The weather forcast is for

Snowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww this Wednesday and Thursday and I just saw perhaps even Friday.... that would make it a really short week! Hmmmm I figure we have a lot of math to get done so lets hope for NO snow!!! ... ok maybe 1 day!


OLD WEST FACT: Cowboys have to eat!
Here's a look at frontier cowboy recipes and trailside cooking. Did you know that a ranch's cook shack was a private realm ruled over by a cantankerous master cook? He was a permanent member of the outfit and wielded even more power than the itinerant cooks who filled in on western cattle roundups and on the trail. He slept in the cook shack rather than in the bunkhouse, and he made certain the hands showed proper respect - which he sometimes enforced with the broad end of a skillet. The cowboy cook's authority lay in the fact that he provided one of the single most important elements, along with sleep, that a cowboy both cherished and needed. And the food had better have been top notch, otherwise, top hands wouldn't work for such a place.

When Cookie was finished with his work for the day and before hitting the sack, he would always place the tongue of the chuck wagon facing north. When the trail master started in the morning he would look at the tongue and then knew what direction he would be moving the herd.

Chuckwagon Etiquette
-No one eats until Cookie calls
-When Cookie calls, everyone comes a runnin'
-Hungry cowboys wait for no man. They fill their plates, fill their bellies, and then move on so stragglers can fill their plates
-Cowboys eat first, talk later.
-It's okay to eat with your fingers. The food is clean
-If you're refilling the coffee cup and someone yells "Man at the pot."
-You're obliged to serve refills.
-Don't take the last serving unless your sure you're the last man.
-Food left on the plate is an insult to the cook.
-No running or saddling a horse near the wagon. And when you ride off, always ride down wind from the wagon.
-If you come across any decent firewood, bring it back to the wagon
-Strangers are always welcome at the wagon.

These are real recipes from the Old West

BBQ Ribs:

5 pounds pork spareribs

1 cup water

1/3 cup butter or margarine

2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
1/4 cup dry mustard

1/4 cup chili powder

1 tablespoon granulated sugar

1 tablespoon paprika

2 teaspoons salt

Beffy Beans:

1 1/2 pounds ground beef
1 medium onion, chopped
1 red or green bell pepper, cut into 1/2-inch pieces
1 (16 ounce) can baked beans
1 (15 1/2 ounce) can Great Northern beans, rinsed and drained
1/4 cup tomato ketchup
1/4 cup Heinz 57® sauce
1 tablespoon packed brown sugar
2 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce
In large skillet, cook the ground beef, onion and bell pepper over medium heat for 6 to 8 minutes or until beef is no longer pink. Break up the beef into 1-inch crumbles and pour off the drippings.  Now season the beef mix with 1/2 teaspoon salt and 1/8 teaspoon pepper. Stir in the beans, ketchup, Heinz Sauce, brown sugar and Worcestershire sauce. Reduce heat to low and simmer, covered for 10 minutes, stirring occasionally.


Camp Cook Names: Soggy, Pot Russler, lean Skillet, Old Pud, Coosie, Old lady, Belly Cheater, Biscuit Roller, Doubh Boxer, Dough Puncher, Greasy Belly, Grub Worm, Gut Robber, Sourdough.

1st Period: Howdy partners! This week we will be working on those pesky fractions, they are as bothersome as a horse fly! But as we mosey on along, we will be converting fractions to decimals and back again! Oh and we have other exciting things planned! It will be a great week.

1st Period Blog questions: Please read over the Old West Fact for the week. #1) How many Camp Cook Names were there___________ #2) How many letters are there in all of the Camp Cook Names_____ and out of all of those letters how many were Gs’____, what would the fraction look like for the number of Gs out of the total number of letters___? #3) In the recipe Beefy Beans, if we added twice as much Beef how much beef would that be____?

4th and 6th Period: Hey there Cowboys and Cowgirls! Ye Ha! Ok so no time to waste!! We have lots and lots of math to cover before the end of the year, I would hate to keep you from your summer cattle drive because you had to stay and learn more math! So pull that hat down and lets get to work! This week ... we will finish our heart project, I hope you have all collected your data. We are also going shopping.. Yep... even Cowboys and Cowgirls have to shop! We will be working on percent of a number... we will see who the sharpest shopper really is!

4th & 6th Period Blog questions: Please read over the Old West Fact for the week.  #1) How many Camp Cook Names are there___________ #2) How many letters were there in all of the Camp Cook Names_____ and out of all of those letters how many were Gs’____, what would the fraction look like for the number of Gs out of the total number of letters___? #3) In the recipe Beefy Beans, if we added twice as much Beef how much beef would that be____? #4) Increase the recipie for BBQ Ribs by 5 times... and what would that new and improved recipie look like? #5) Increase that recipie by 2 and what do you get?

GONZAGA MENS BASKETBALL

FEEL THE SPIRIT!!!

Well... Here we go... ESPN is saying that the Zags are in the dance (College Basketball Championship), but this Thursday, they have a HUGE game against St. Marys, at St. Marys... they really need to win that game. If they win they will continue their streak of 10 West Coast Championships alive! Talk about excitement... doesn’t get much better than this!

SCHEDULE:

11/5 vs. Southern Oregon W 90-58

11/12 vs. Southern W 117-72
11/16 vs. San Diego State L 79-76
11/22 Kansas State 6:30 pm L 81 - 64 (OUCH!)
11/23 Marquette 4:57 pm W 66-63
11/30 vs. Eastern Washington W 86-57
12/4 vs. Illinois 2:15 pm L 73-61
12/8 at Washington State L 81 - 59
12/11 at Notre Dame L 83-79
12/16 vs. Lewis-Clark State W 103 - 61
12/18 vs. #9 Baylor W 68- 64
12/22 vs. Xavier W 64- 54
12/29 vs. Lafayette W 83-55
12/31 vs. Oklahoma State W 73 - 63
1-2 vs Wake forest W 73 - 63
1-8 University of Portland W 74 - 61
1-13 vs. Perperdine W 92 - 75
1-15 vs. Loyola Marymount W 79 - 59
1-20 Santa Clara L 75-81
1-22 San Francisco L 91-96
1-27 vs St. Marys L 73- 71
1-29 vs San Diego W 86 - 53
2-3 U of Portland W 67 - 64
2-5 #22 vs Memphis L 62-58
2-10 Loyola Marymount W 67 -57
2-12 Pepperdine W 63 - 44
2-17 vs Santa Clara W 85 - 76
2-19 vs San Francisco W 70 - 53
2-24 St. Marys
2-26 San Diego
2-28 vs Cal State Bakersfield

Have a wild and woolly ride this week!
As always, you are amazing, incredible people with the whole world waiting to be changed by YOU!

Mr. Rott