Math Test

Of 19 students taking the test, 9 students passed with an adjusted
Score of 14 or better. One student achieved a perfect score.

One Hundred Fifteenth Day of School

In Writing, we have looked at opinion anchor texts and started examining their structure. Yesterday we began brainstorming by making a list of places we've been which may inspire some opinion. Later, on those places will need to be labeled or rather categorized in order to facilitate an opinion statement. For example:

• Veteran's Park
• Disneyland
• Movie Theater

• Veteran's Park-park
• Disneyland-amusement park
• Movie Theater-place/activity

In this way, an opinion may easily be stated as: The movie theater is my favorite place to visit with my family; or, Disneyland is my favorite amusement park.

It has been a pleasure so far to meet with all of the parents so far for parent conferences. Do not worry if you will miss Open House next week as we will not be displaying projects like in years past due to the early scheduling of the event this year.

For Math, make sure to review with your child the skills they missed on the Math test this week as we will take the chapter test on Friday. Tests will be returned tomorrow. Some students struggled with ten more and ten less and some had difficulty with the less than and greater than symbols.

One Hundred Eleventh Day of School

In Writing today, we read an anchor text entitled Red is the Best in order to discuss arguement and counter-arguement. Later we will see that one way to provide closure to an opinion is to present a counter arguement.

In Music, we began to take a look at and practice with simple music notation including, quarter notes and quarter note rests.

One Hundred Tenth Day of School

In Writing today, we took our preassessment for our opinion unit. Afterwards, we discussed the term arguement and how to develop one.

Parent Conferences

Thank you to the parents who have returned your parent conference forms. However, we were just informed that we will not be in possession of the progress reports in time for parent conference week. If you would rather wait to have a conference on an afternoon following receipt of your child's report card, that will be fine. To secure a definite time in the weeks following, just send a note with your child (letting me know when you would like to come (not Tuesdays). Otherwise, you may still come on the scheduled time for your conference, we just won't a progress report for reference.

Update: We have been notified that we will be allowed unofficial progress reports with preliminary grades at the parent conferences.

One Hundred Sixth Day of School

Parents should have found Parent Conference Notifications in their child's paperwork. Thank you to those parent's who have already returned notice.

Also, student's now have a study map for their Social Science test next week.

Math Test

Of 20 students taking the Mid Chp 5 Math Test, 13 passed with an adjusted score of 5 or better. Two students achieved a perfect score.