Autumn is stealthily approaching and the leaves are changing on my block. What a pleasant surprise amidst the rain, having grown up in Northern California where there are no seasons...
Thank you for attending Curriculum Night if you were able to join us. I sent a letter about Language Arts and Literacy Skills home with each student whose adults were unable to attend. Please feel free to email me with questions at any time. It was announced that evening that Conferences will be Student-led Portfolio Conferences this year. More information will be available soon from Brooks about this process.
A current progress report for LA and LS will be given out on Tuesday. As always, please review it with your student before signing and returning it to me. I appreciate receiving the hard copy back, although you may write me a note if you wish to keep the original. Students have been given several reminders to make up work from absences and to turn in activities that they may have not turned in. I am keeping my fingers crossed that the gradebook program will be available for you soon so that you can check in with your student's progress in all classes. The progress report is snapshot of current progress, not the final grade in class. Although not all "Who Am I" narrative essays have been graded yet, all other activities have been entered.
Hopefully you have had a chance to look over the school photo order form. School pictures will be taken on October 1. Please make sure to give a filled out form with payment to your student.
The Media Center has been very busy during lunch and 6th period Literacy Skills. Please encourage your student to take AR tests before school if possible. Students may write a book summary in place of an AR test.
This week in Language Arts students are working with prefixes and context clues. As an experiment, they were given all assignments on Monday so that they could plan how to accomplish them. Please refer to the Class Activities information to the right of this blog for more information.
Thanks again for your support.
