Curriculum Night and Progress Reports

Curriculum Night is Thursday, September 18. This is a great way to experience your student's school day and to visit each classroom. Please arrive a few minutes before 7 PM with your student's schedule, which has been mailed to you. Since it is such a busy evening, teachers won't have an opportunity to speak with you individually, but please email if you have any questions. Students who "send their adults" to school for Curriculum Night will receive extra credit in my Language Arts classes, so please make sure to sign the clipboard before you leave.

The first vocabulary stories were fabulous, and many students shared their stories in class. What an amazing group of creative minds we have in our Core! I hope your student reads the next vocab story (using prefixes) to you before turning it in. Soon we have another great event for writing in our District. The Young Authors Conference is Saturday, October 25, and your student is invited to participate. This is a great opportunity for students who love to write or are not sure. Please return the blue form to me ASAP.

I am sending progress reports home with your student for my LA and LS classes on Friday. Please review them and discuss your student's success and areas to improve. Please then sign it and return it to me. If you prefer to keep it ("A"'s look great on the fridge), then send a note stating that you have seen it.

Technology issue: some students are bringing in flash drives with Microsoft Word files ending with the extension ".docx". This is the latest version of Word and will NOT open on our school computers. Please "save as" the document and select "Word '04". Then ".doc" should appear at the end.

Thanks for your support.