Announcements:
The homecoming parade will be next week on Friday. I will be there marching with the kids, so please come and march with me! We will meet at Beebe Street Park after school and march together as grade levels back to the high school. Reading: This week the kids have been learning the rules and procedures of our reading time. They've been doing a great job building stamina and learning to be good learning teammates. Writing: Our focus this week was on coming up with good ideas and considering our audience, and making sure to capitalize the right letters in a sentence. Math: We started learning some larger place values this week, all the way up to a million! Why doesn't my student have math homework? I almost never give homework. I expect that during the math time each day, your student is working their hardest. If I've ever caught them slacking, you've probably seen an action plan! Because they work so hard here, I don't make them finish at home. I check each student's proficiency every day with an exit ticket, and if they need help, I provide it. They will work very hard in school, when they go home I want them to be kids and have friends and family time. Eventually, each exit ticket will come with an at home problem that is meant for your student to show you directly what we did in math today, but that's not ready yet. What is this math work, and why is it half finished and not graded? The math that comes home will not always be finished. I give the students a very short exit ticket every single day to see if they understood the day's lesson. If they did, but didn't finish their work, no sweat. They understood and can move on. If they did not understand, then I pulled them to my side table to work with them individually and they probably didn't have time to finish, but they did plenty of work with me. The worksheets are not graded because I take grades on my daily and weekly quizzes. The packets are practice, and I intentionally give them too much so that they don't rush, and instead focus on doing their best. Science: Social Studies will be taking focus over science for now, so we are simply working on the basic ideas of science and what those ideas mean. Social Studies: It's constitution day! Because of that, we are learning about the government and how it is organized. Comments are closed.
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June 2023
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