Week of September 29

Hello Parents and Students!

And here we are on another Monday!

We had a spelling pre-test today, we will have the post-test on Friday. The words are tricky. Practice at home would be ideal.

Math this week has been pretty easy for most if not all of the students. We are just working with integers and negative numbers. The only worry that I have is that students will not read directions carefully and will get easy questions wrong. Parents, please encourage them to SLOW DOWN and read the question all the way through. Students, SLOW DOWN and you'll get it right. :)

Science we will be finishing up our unit on Light and begin a short unit on Heat.

I have given the students of a couple of packets to complete in class this week: one for handwriting, and one grammar packet on independent and dependent clauses. Both of these packets are due by Friday. I will give them time in class to complete them, but if they are not done by Thursday, I recommend that they go home to be finished. Late work does not receive full credit.

SEPs are on Wednesday and Thursday! I hope to see everyone there. I will send home reminders tomorrow with each student. If you didn't sign up for a time, I just filled you in one of the empty slots. Please be prompt so that we don't get behind. I will do my very best to stay on time with everyone's visits.

Let's make it a great week!
-Miss Richards

Week of September 15

Hello Parents and Students! 

Happy Monday! 

Here are a couple of things going on this week:

I meant to have the spelling post-test on Friday of last week, but we ran out of time. So the spelling post-test was today. We will have a pre-test tomorrow for this weeks words and the post-test on Friday. Then we will be back on track to always have pre-tests on Mondays and post-tests on Fridays. 

Math this week is all about dividing fractions. We're trying hard to use pictures and full sentences to represent every problem. This is new for most students and will be a challenge for most if not all. Know that homework may be difficult, but we will work our hardest in class together to succeed. 

Students presented their homemade musical instruments today! It was so fun! You have very creative children! We have had a lot of fun learning about sound. This week we will move into learning about light. Hopefully I will be able to post some pictures and video of your talented children. Students who forgot or did not complete the assignment can turn it in for partial credit tomorrow.

I'm trying hard to keep grades updated on Skyward, so take a look. Students should get with me if they have any missing assignments and we'll see what we can work out.

Please click on the Calendar tab at the top of this page. I have put together a calendar with all homework assignments and any in class assignments that need to be made up. If your student is absent or sick, please take a look at this. I have a hard copy of it in the classroom for the students to access as well. This is also a great place to go if students forget their homework assignments.

 Thanks!

-Miss Richards