Happy Winter Break

I hope you and your family takes some time for creative insight, warm memories and deep sleep during these two weeks.
See you in the New Year...

LA grades have been updated

We have been reading short stories and creating a "winter" piece of writing that is on display and should come home early next week. Students read about Snowflake Bentley, who created a way to document snowflakes, and then students made their own.

Please check over the gradebook. If a "0" is listed, that activity has not reached me yet. If an assignment is blank, it has not been graded yet or collected, depending on the due date. Please remind your student to check through the LA binder for activities, and also remind them to keep the binder organized by section. Sometimes a student has completed the work but did not bring it to class to turn in.

If your child has been absent, please refer to the LA blog (to the right of this message) for those days of class, which is listed at the bottom of this email. Students are welcome to ask me questions during lunch about activities they may have missed. It is best if you request work for your child while absent so that there is not so much make-up stress upon their return.

Thanks so much for your support. The weather is cold, but our classes are full of energetic young minds. Please feel free to email me any comments or concerns.

LA and Advisory update

As you have already been made aware there have been a few changes to advisory to support students at Brooks. Students will now meet in advisory for the first 15 minutes every day. This whole school concept was implemented to bring organizational benefits to our students. Students are expected to bring to advisory an updated student assignment log/handbook, which lists all of their homework. They also need to bring writing utensils and their materials for their morning classes. This hopefully will help students be successful at the start of the day.

In Language Arts we are reading short stories in the literature textbook, continuing to work on grammar development and doing some freewrite reflections. Please check my blog to the right of this page under "class activities" for the week if you have a question.

It is very helpful to your student if he/she keeps track of activities and tries to complete them while absent. I update any changes to the blog as soon as possible. Feel free to request work to be sent to the office for pickup if your child is out due to illness.

Thank you for your continued support this year. Please also feel free to email me about any questions or concerns you may have.