Newletter: September 27

We are at the midterm!  Lots of changes happen next week...new seats, new Superbank goal, new group names.  Hard to believe that October is just around the corner too!

Electronics Party

The kids had a great time today redeeming their reward.  They earn behavior points each day and had set a goal of 150 points.  We reached that goal last Friday, so we celebrated today with an electronics party.  They did great!  We will set a new goal and reward next week.  

Accelerated Reader

We are at the half-way point of the midterm.  Students should be at 50% of their goal.  If they are not, they will be in at recess until they get caught up.  Notification will come home with midterms about AR goals.

Student Led Conferences

We will be doing conferences like they did last year.  It will be an open format and your student will be leading the conference on October 3 from 3:30-7.  I will be available to answer questions.  If you know that you want to meet one-on-one with me, please contact me with dates/times that work for that.  I am generally available before school (except Wed.), from 11:15-11:50, and after 5:30pm.  I would be more than happy to meet.

Newsletter: September 20

Time is FLYING by!  

Next week is midterm.  AR goals should be at 50%.  I have met with most students about AR and will finish up conferencing on Monday.  

Several students are doing well and several need to be reading at home.  Your student knows!

Student Led Conferences

We will be doing conferences like they did last year.  It will be an open format and your student will be leading the conference on October 3 from 3:30-7.  I will be available to answer questions.  If you know that you want to meet one-on-one with me, please contact me with dates/times that work for that.  I am generally available before school (except Wed.), from 11:15-11:50, and after 5:30pm.  I would be more than happy to meet.

Midterm Grades

Midterm grades will be sent home the night of conferences.  If you are unable to attend conferences, midterms will be sent home the following day.  Remember that midterms are a checkpoint.  Your student will still have 6 more weeks of work before trimester grades.

Agendas and Homework

Please be checking agendas each night.  If there is an assignment, it will be written in the agendas (even if your student gets it done in class).  I have several students struggling to get work done or get agendas signed. 

Please leave a comment that you read this.  You will earn a point for your student's team!

Newsletter: September 13

Week 5 has come to an end! Time sure does fly in room 410. We had a good week. The highlight of the week was a program about bullying. If you haven’t heard about it, please ask your student. 

Edmodo 

We did some work on edmodo today during Tier 2 time. If you have internet access from home, have your student show you what it is. It is a pretty neat tool for us to use in the classroom. We will be utilizing it more and more throughout the school year. 

Science and Social Studies 

We will be taking our first Social Studies test next Tuesday. This will be an open-book test, but your student should still bring home their book to study. We will then move to Science for a chapter, then back to Social Studies. In order for us to cover what we need, we alternate our schedule. It usually works out pretty well. 

Book Fair 

Thanks to those of you who donated books to the classroom. That along with PTO’s donation allowed us to have 11 new books for our classroom library. Awesome!!! 

Midterm 

Midterm is just around the corner. This will be the first official progress report for the school year. Please check Harmony for updates if you are curious about your student’s grades.

Below are some pictures of the students sorting our classroom library and making reading wish lists during the first week of school.

Newsletter: September

We finished up NWEA testing for the fall.  Results will come home once they are released to us.  We are in the full swing of school!  Homework should be coming home most nights.  Please check agendas to know what your student has to do.

Accelerated Reader

There is a paper coming home today with your student about AR home connect.  This is a way for you to keep track of your student’s AR progress. We have 30 min/day at school to read.

Edmodo

We are going to begin using a program called edmodo next week.  It is online and I think the kids will LOVE it!  Your students will have more information next week for you!

 Book Fair

Our class will be going to the book fair on Monday morning.  Feel free to send money in with your student.

Thank you to everyone that stopped by for Open House.  It was great to meet my students' families!