I can't believe how fast this year is going by! Parent-teacher conferences will be held on Friday, October 24. I will hold them in 15 minute increments. The first quarter conferences are really to touch base and give a brief overview of how your child is doing. The number of standards we cover in the first quarter does not compare to what we are able to cover the following quarters. We spent those first few weeks of school getting our routines down so we can become a well oiled machine!
At this point if I had any major concerns regarding your child, behavior or academic, I have been in contact with you. However, if you would like to have more time for our conference please let me know.
Conferences will be with me only. I will have information about how your child is doing in math. If you feel a need to meet with Mrs. Green, please contact her.
I will be sending home an email out this week to sign up for the time slots on that day. If you cannot make it that day, let me know and we can make other arrangements.
Reading (3rd and 4th):This week reviewed and then had an assessment on first and third person. I was impressed with how well everyone did!!
We are getting into the groove of using edmodo. The thing that a lot of the students need to work on is restating the question when writing their answers and using the text to support their answers. We will continue working on both of these things throughout the year.
The students had a spelling assessment on Thursday. As a whole they did very good. If your child received a 1 on their test please have them spend more time studying their words each night.
We have a Latin/Greek test on Thursday the 16th.
Writing:The students worked on an opinion writing assessment this week. They are writing about the best vacation spot. They will finish up on Monday. We also finished learning the rest of our cursive letters! We will continue practicing these each day.
Grammar: We reviewed adjectives this week by writing as many adjectives as we could think of using our 5 senses on fun sensory loaded pictures. We then took an assessment on adjectives on Thursday.
Projects: We continue working hard on our Then and Now projects. This week the students worked on finding pictures and mounting them to get ready to put on their boards. They are all working very hard and learning how to work as a team. The projects have to be turned into the museum on the 23rd so we will have to work really hard to get them completed!!
