Math Test Results

Of 24 students taking the test, 23 passed with an adjusted score of 9 or better. Two students achieved a perfect score.

Tenth Day of School

In Language Arts today we we read and created rhymes.

In Writing, we brainstormed lists of places we have been. These will be used to provide ideas later for personal narratives.

In Social Science, we had our 3rd lesson in violence prevention.

Our lesson today in P.E. was cooperation/teamwork.

Reminder: tonight is Back-to-School Night for parents.

Tomorrow will be our first Math test.

Ninth Day of School

Tonight's (weekend) homework is optional.

Reminder: Back-to-School meeting for parents is this Monday, August 27th. Please be in Room 11 at 5:30 p.m. Especially if you have never had a child in my classroom before.

Eighth Day of School

In Language Arts today, we reviewed the parts of  a narrative we will need to know in order to read and write stories in the classroom.

• The Beginning of the story includes:
• the setting (where and when)
• the characters (who)
• The Middle of the story tells the events or plot (what).
• The Ending explains the resolution.

When you have your child tell their stories at home, listen for these story elements. At Back-to-School Night I will explain our process for turning our oral stories into written text and what is needed to pass the writing standard.

Sixth Day of School

If your child had their homework returned, it needs to be completed and returned to school for credit.

In Music today, we had our first lesson on music notation learning a bit about measures, quarter notes, and quarter rests.

Fifth Day of School

We have nearly completed our initial Reading battery. There are 2 measures remaining.

We took our initial spelling inventory today. Tomorrow we will take our baseline assessment for narrative writing.

In folders, you will find tonight's Math homework and a reading log for the remainder of August.

In Social Science, we discussed our role as citizens of our country and the concepts of rights and responsibilities. We also had our second Second Step Violence Prevention Lesson.

Thank you to those parents who have returned all information forms and to those who have completed and returned Writing lists and folders.

At-Home Assignment #2

Please find the yellow folder sent home with your child today. Your task:

With your child's input, decorate all surfaces of your child's folder (inside and out) with some or all of the following items:

• Pictures of memorable events from your child's life
• Pictures or advertisements of your child's interests
• Pictures of topics which particularly interest your child (your child may have an interest in machines, space, dinosaurs, soccer, etc.)

Before placing something on the folder consider: how with this lend itself to a dicussion between your child and their teacher, or how will this help your child to brainstorm topics for writing?

 Return the decorated folder to school with your child by Monday, August 20, 2018.

You might notice that the folders are not very substantial in quality. After the folder is decorated you may want to consider adding a bit of clear packing tape over the items which you have attached. We will be using these folder the entire year.

Please post any questions you may have in the comment section below.

Important Scheduling Change

In order to avoid scheduling conflict with CHS Back-to-School Night, our Back-to-School Night has been changed to:

Monday, August 27, 2018

5:00-7:00

At-Home Assigment #1

Parent Assignment #1

The Memorable Moment

Over the course of the next few weeks, we will be working on the genre of personal narratives.

Your Task:

With input from your child, over the course of the next few days, construct a list of memorable events. These individual events should be about moments which occurred across a time span of approximately 20 minutes maximum in length. Each event should have an identifiable emotion (or two) attached to it (fear, happiness, surprise).


Examples of events which will not work:
My Day at Disneyland
Christmas Morning
My Birthday Party
The Winning Game

Examples of events which will work:
Meeting Cinderella
Opening My Favorite Gift
Breaking the Pinata
Scoring the Winning Goal

Try to make a list of at least 10 memorable moments. Make a copy of the list for you to keep at home. Send one copy of the list to school with your child by Tuesday August 21st (sooner than that is fine if not better). We will refer to this list as our list of Memorable Moments. Hopefully your child will be able to construct at least 3 narratives from events in the list. They will eventually be choosing from among those narratives one or two which they focus on for elaboration, revising, and editing for publication.

For your child's homework over the next few weeks, choose one event from the list each day and have your child tell the story to you orally. Listen for the following characteristics/items in their speech:

Complete sentences (not run-on sentences or phrases)
A beginning, middle, and closure to the story
Details or examples of dialogue


 Again, if you have any questions regarding this important assignment feel free to post in the comment section. If you would like to post an example for comment I will be glad to review with my thoughts.

First Day of School

Today in Language Arts, we discussed 2 subsets of the English alphabet called vowels and consonants. It was surprising to note that no one knew the word consonants. We discussed how to answer questions in a complete sentence. We began our initial Reading battery of tests. We began our review of proper letter formation and began to learn the ASL alphabet.

In Math, we reviewed proper procedures for mini lesson discussions.

Welcome

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