So Much Going On!

Authors!

 

What a great week!  In writing we have been learning about the genre of personal essay.  This week our class spent a great deal of time drafting essays about topics they felt strongly about.  Prior to this week, students have been free-writing their opinions, choosing topics, crafting thesis statements and opinions and planning their essays.  It was amazing to see the essays come to life on the papers of your students.  Next week you will see these essays come home as students will need to write or type their final drafts (we call it publishing!). 

 

While I know it is difficult, please do not help your child to further edit or revise their writing in any way.  These essays were about learning the writing process that goes into writing a personal essay and although their punctuation, spelling and paragraph structure may not show it at times, an enormous amount of work and teaching went into the essays.  Fixing a student's essay for them can sometimes minimize that work for the student and the finished product is not what the student would typically do.  Thank you so much for your support in this.

 

 

Mathematicians!

 

Thank you for supporting your child as they have done xtramath.org over the past two weeks as a way to increase the automaticity of their math facts.  Next week I will be sending home math vocabulary to study for homework and ask that students take a break from xtramath.org.  They can still do it on their own time if they wish, but for homework they will have a MAH (Math at Home) sheet where they will have to record how long they studied their math vocabulary and how they did so.  Students will bring home flash cards that they created in school to help with the studying.

 

 

BOKS

 

Recently Mr. Quinn sent home information regarding BOKS, a before school fitness program that will occur on Tuesday and Thursday mornings.  I cannot say enough about this program and the wonderful effects it had on the students in my class that participated last year.  Many studies show that students who exercise do better in school than their peers who do not.  Please consider signing your child up! 

 

 

Important Dates





Conferences 10/15 & 10/16

Don't forget to sign up for a conference!