January 20th – 23

Classroom News

Dates
January 20th Happy 7/12 Birthday Elizabeth
January 21st   Library
January 29th SEP’s  If you would like to meet with me concerning your child, please e-mail me and we will set appointments. 
February 10th Fieldtrip; Permission Slips and more information will be coming home this week

This week should be relatively quiet and our regular routines should be in place.   
I would like to thank all the parents who provided ice cream and bananas for our activity last Friday.  THANK YOU!  It was a hugs success and fun was had by all!

HOMEWORK 

Homework has become an area of concern for me as a significant number of students are not reporting their reading minutes, and sorts, as well as doing their Xtra math practice.  I am considering changing the homework format for those that are not doing (or hopefully just not recording) the homework as currently outlined.  The change would require the printing of pencil and paper math practice along with reading passages that have comprehension questions.  If this is a better fit for you and your child please let me know or if I notice that individual students are in need of a change, I will contact you. 

Sorts
Packers: Sort 14
Colts: Sort 41  
Seahawks:Sort 2
Patriots: Sort B
20  Minutes of reading 5 nights and Xtramath.org 3 nights.  If your child has completed XtraMath  please have them do Frontrowed.com, the assigned tab and I will give them items that are assigned according to their needs. 

Power Point Project:  Each student is working on a PowerPoint to go with their research project.  We are going to learn how to include a link or a video in the presentation.  In order to do this, the students need to either have a link that is NOT connected to YouTube, or a short downloaded video that goes with their topic.  They may either bring these on a flashdrive (Warning, these do get lost easily) or you may directly upload them to the student file using the thinclient link. (The directions on how to do this from home is under the For  Students tab or here: ThinLab Directions )  We need these videos by Thursday of this week.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.