Friday, January 20, 2012

Week 20

The second progress report went out this week, a bit later than I had planned at the beginning of the year. Thank you for your patience and the feedback on the parent comment section.

We started book clubs this week. Students have met with their fellow club members and have made some short term goals for their reading work. We also worked on rules to help us have productive club meetings. Children are allowed to use the reading work they've done in clubs to help them write their weekly reading response.

Here's what's coming up this week:

  • Grades 3, 4 and 5 will take the Math and ELA predictive this week. We will take the ELA predictive on Tuesday and the Math predictive on Wednesday.
  • On Monday, we will have our publishing celebration for our picture books at 7th period. Each student may bring in  a drink (no sodas, please) as snacks will be provided. Parents are most welcomed to join us!
  • We will wrap up Math Unit 5 and have the unit test on Friday.
  • Finally, the answer to the poll question (true or false: 2.5 -1.25 > 1.3 -0.05) is false. The amounts on both side of the sentence are equal. Please check out our new poll question :)
Have a warm week!