The first day has started off great! The students have listened very well as we went through the classroom rules and structure. There is a lot of information for them to take in on the first day.
Here are a few notes for the beginning of the year:
Math Expressions
- We have a new math series this year called Math Expressions.
- The main focus for the first few months is multiplication and division.
- They teach the two together since they are so closely tied.
- Wednesday and Thursday the students will be taking a pretest for the math series. This will help me see what areas each student is confident in and where they may need assistance. The test is not graded.
- Friday we will begin lesson one of the math series.
- Because of the pretest we won't have any homework this week, but will get started with math and language arts homework next week.
Gym and Computers
- We will only have gym on days A, C, and E this year.
- On days D and F we will have computers at the same time as our gym time.
- Day B will be a time that we will do an activity in the classroom. It will usually be a chance to put in extra work on an area of need. Tomorrow it will be a chance to pick out silent reading books from our library.
Reading Calendars
- I will be sending home reading calendars tonight as well.
- The students are responsible for the calendar starting today (Sept. 4) until the end of the year.
- They should read for 15 minutes each night, but get 4 skip days whenever they would like to return them.
- If they return their calendar finished, signed, and on time they receive an extra 30 minute reading recess on Monday, October 1st.
- When Pizza Hut's Book-It starts in October they will also receive the personal pan pizza for returning their reading calendar.
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