We had a great week. The students have really raised their work levels and engagement. Their response to text is higher than any previous group I've ever had the pleasure to work with:)
I am suspending homework for the next two weeks. I'm trying to be cognizant of the students' age, the effort they gave this week, the fact that many have just started spring sports and other extra curricular activities, and my desire for them to be well rested and fresh for the next two weeks of rigorous assessments.
Important Dates & Reminders
I will highlight new and changed dates on subsequent posts in red.
April 12 - Progress Reports sent home (Please refer to the district email sent out last week.)
April 12 & 13 - Ohio English Language Arts Assessment
April 20 & 21 - Ohio Mathematics Assessment
April 25 through 29 - Scholastic Book Fair
April 29 - Kids Fest 5 till 8pm
Kid Fest 2016 will soon be here! One of the highlights of this fun, family event is the GIANT raffle baskets! This exciting tradition is always eagerly anticipated and a great fund-raiser! Please click on the link to view the third grade basket items.
www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0a4fa9af2da31-star/31903624
May 27 - Last Day of School for Students
Friday, April 8, 2016
Sunday, April 3, 2016
Newsletter for April 1, 2016
What We Learned This Week
Word Study
Students learned about conjunctions, primarily and, but, either-or, and neither-nor. We are working on intentional sentence variation.
Reading Workshop
Students are reviewing many of our reading skills: main idea, comparing and contrasting, fact and opinion, inference, predictions, and answering questions from our text using complete sentences and spelling from the text. Despite our practice, many students still skim and miss relatively easy questions.
Writing Workshop
I'm having the students respond to the same text with an opinion essay, personal narrative, and
informational essays. Our greatest opportunity for improvement is in opinion essays where we are doing a nice job of referencing the text but we do not express how the text supports our position.
Math Workshop
I introduced geometry this week. Students learned about lines, line segments, angles, right angles, vertices, parallel lines, intersecting lines, perpendicular lines, polygons, and specific quadrilaterals.
Important Dates & Reminders
I will highlight new and changed dates on subsequent posts in red.
Please make sure your student has a working pair of headphones or earbuds for April testing! There will be auditory components on the state math test.
April 5 - Progress Reports sent home
April 6 - Early Dismissal Professional Development 1pm
April 12 & 13 - Ohio English Language Arts Assessment
April 20 & 21 - Ohio Mathematics Assessment
April 25 through 29 - Scholastic Book Fair
April 29 - Kids Fest 5 till 8pm
Kid Fest 2016 will soon be here! One of the highlights of this fun, family event is the GIANT raffle baskets! This exciting tradition is always eagerly anticipated and a great fund-raiser! Please click on the link to view the third grade basket items.
www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0a4fa9af2da31-star/31903624
We won the Box Tops collection. The class decided they would like to celebrate with a technology day. I'm meeting with one of our district technology leaders to help plan this event for May. Thank you for supporting our school!
May 27 - Last Day of School for Students
Friday, March 11, 2016
Newsletter for March 11, 2016
What We Learned This Week
Word Study
Students continued with last week's patterns (i vowel patterns and -ing verb rules). I also introduced articles a, an, and the. a is used before nouns or adjective/noun combinations when the adjective or noun begins with a consonant sound; an is used before a vowel sound, and the is used when referencing a specific thing(s).
Reading Workshop
Students responded to texts, constructing opinion pieces that used personal opinion and cited the text. The greatest area for improvement is taking the next step to explicitly explain why the opinion and reference support a student's opinion. Without adding the because students are simply copying the essay. I think they made great strides through sharing and critiquing. We will continue this next week.
Students were treated to the music of Emily Arrow, a gifted young song writer who turns books into song.
Writing Workshop
Students finished drafting, editing and publishing pen pals. This also gave them experience keyboarding and using Google Docs to share work with me.
Math Workshop
We are firmly into measurement. Students continued to review time and all of its facets (reading analog clocks to the minute; recognizing quarter past, half past, quarter till and o'clock; determining elapsed time, start time and end time). We also started measurement to the nearest quarter inch and nearest centimeter. This provided us with a good opportunity to review fractions. We also began studying line plots, bar graphs, area and perimeter. Some students still confuse area and perimeter. I remind them that area is similar to array (a model of multiplication) and perimeter has the word rim in it.
Science
Students are working on presenting their inventions. We are emphasizing presentation skills (engaging their audience, projecting their voices, using their boards and prototypes to present, etc.). I'm really pleased with this year's work and I am excited to share it next Friday.
Art
Students are working on weaving in art with Dr. Myers.
Word Study
Students continued with last week's patterns (i vowel patterns and -ing verb rules). I also introduced articles a, an, and the. a is used before nouns or adjective/noun combinations when the adjective or noun begins with a consonant sound; an is used before a vowel sound, and the is used when referencing a specific thing(s).
Students responded to texts, constructing opinion pieces that used personal opinion and cited the text. The greatest area for improvement is taking the next step to explicitly explain why the opinion and reference support a student's opinion. Without adding the because students are simply copying the essay. I think they made great strides through sharing and critiquing. We will continue this next week.
Emily Arrow
Students were treated to the music of Emily Arrow, a gifted young song writer who turns books into song.
Writing Workshop
Students finished drafting, editing and publishing pen pals. This also gave them experience keyboarding and using Google Docs to share work with me.
Math Workshop
We are firmly into measurement. Students continued to review time and all of its facets (reading analog clocks to the minute; recognizing quarter past, half past, quarter till and o'clock; determining elapsed time, start time and end time). We also started measurement to the nearest quarter inch and nearest centimeter. This provided us with a good opportunity to review fractions. We also began studying line plots, bar graphs, area and perimeter. Some students still confuse area and perimeter. I remind them that area is similar to array (a model of multiplication) and perimeter has the word rim in it.
Science
Students are working on presenting their inventions. We are emphasizing presentation skills (engaging their audience, projecting their voices, using their boards and prototypes to present, etc.). I'm really pleased with this year's work and I am excited to share it next Friday.
Art
Students are working on weaving in art with Dr. Myers.
Important Dates & Reminders
I will highlight new and changed dates on subsequent posts in red.
There will not be a newsletter next week. I'm looking forward to seeing you at the Invention Convention. Have a lovely spring break!
March 14 - recycled instruments due
March 15 - Voting Day, students eat in the classroom. No peanut products please.
March 17 - 3rd Grade Musical Performance directed by Mrs. Delcamp 7:00-7:30pm.
March 18 - Invention Convention 10:00-10:45am
March 18 - End of 3rd quarter
March 21 through 25 - Spring Break No School
March 28 - No School Teacher Grading Day
Please make sure your student has a working pair of headphones or earbuds for April testing! There will be auditory components to the state math test.
April 5 - Progress Reports sent home
April 6 - Early Dismissal Professional Development 1pm
April 12 & 13 - Ohio English Language Arts Assessment
April 20 & 21 - Ohio Mathematics Assessment
April 29 - Kids Fest 5 till 8pm
May 27 - Last Day of School for Students
I will highlight new and changed dates on subsequent posts in red.
There will not be a newsletter next week. I'm looking forward to seeing you at the Invention Convention. Have a lovely spring break!
March 15 - Voting Day, students eat in the classroom. No peanut products please.
March 17 - 3rd Grade Musical Performance directed by Mrs. Delcamp 7:00-7:30pm.
March 18 - Invention Convention 10:00-10:45am
March 18 - End of 3rd quarter
March 21 through 25 - Spring Break No School
March 28 - No School Teacher Grading Day
Please make sure your student has a working pair of headphones or earbuds for April testing! There will be auditory components to the state math test.
April 5 - Progress Reports sent home
April 6 - Early Dismissal Professional Development 1pm
April 12 & 13 - Ohio English Language Arts Assessment
April 20 & 21 - Ohio Mathematics Assessment
April 29 - Kids Fest 5 till 8pm
May 27 - Last Day of School for Students
Friday, March 4, 2016
Newsletter March 4, 2016
What We Learned This Week
Word Study
My Within Word group is studying long i syllable types: -y (fly), VCe (mice), -igh (flight), VCC (child). The VCC is the most challenging as VC and VCC patterns typically represent short vowel sounds and closed syllables (closed by the consonant(s)) (e.g., twin, wind, etc.).
The Syllable Juncture group is studying present tense -ing endings. They are learning that words that base words with a VC pattern double the consonant (swim becomes swimming) and base words with a VCC pattern just add -ing (rest becomes resting).
Reading Workshop
Students studied facts versus opinions. This gets very tricky for 8 and 9 year olds when they share a fact that is a personal opinion. For example, it is an opinion that mint chocolate chip ice cream is the best kind of ice cream. However, it is a fact that I think mint chocolate chip ice cream is the best kind of ice cream.
Students reviewed main idea and inference as well, supporting both with evidence.
Writing Workshop
Having spent so much time researching and taking notes on our African American biographies, I found our writing had regressed. In response, we focused on writing this week with daily paragraphs for our pen pal letters. Using checklists which held students accountable for convention and content, I saw our writing improve quickly.
Students should be independent (with the help of a checklist) for the following writing components:
- Respond to the prompt
- Clear topic sentence
- Minimum of 6 details (5 W's, 5 senses, Feelings)
- Clear conclusion
- Indent paragraph
- Capital letters at the beginnings of all sentences
- Capitalized proper nouns
- Punctuation at the end of sentences
Challenge elements include:
- Sentence variation (longer and shorter sentences)
- Rich vocabulary
- Transition words
- Not conversational (Outlaws: I'm going to tell you... That's what I know about... I hope you like...)
Math Workshop
We are studying measurement. Students should be able to tell time to the minute, hour, quarter-past, half-past, and quarter-till. Students should also be able to determine the missing variable when given two variables to an elapsed time story problem. For example, Christopher started cleaning his bedroom at 12:15. He finished at 3:45. How long did Christopher work on his bedroom? Please ask your child to tell you the time using an analog clock as often as possible and challenge them to tell you how many minutes till future times (e.g., bedtime).
I introduced using rulers to measure length to the nearest quarter inch and to use this data to create line plots.
Several students have asked for resources for learning math facts. Having used up my bag of tricks and a strategy approach, I recommend using flashcards for any student who has not yet mastered their facts. Make a pile of "don't know" cards and hit them for a few minutes daily. I asked colleagues for some additional online suggestions. They shared the following websites you may want to look at. iPads also have apps you can use, many of which are free. I like the ease of flashcards, but each student is different.
Front Row Math,
https://www.frontrowed.com/
NCTM (National Council of Teachers of Mathematics)
http://www.nctm.org/Classroom-Resources/Interactives/
Illuminations
http://calculationnation.nctm.org/
Science
Invention Convention prototypes and completed presentation boards are due next Friday, March 11th.
Garden permission slips are due March 17th.
I love getting to watch other teachers and I got to observe a 5th grade science design challenge. I modified it slightly for our class. Students worked in teams to build the slowest marble run.
Important Dates and Reminders
20162017 Student Placement Procedures
This is the time of year when parents and teachers begin to think about next year’s class placement for our students. The classroom teachers, the school counselor, special area teachers, support staff and the principal will collaborate to form next year’s classes.
The placement of students into classroom groups for next year is an important task that we take very seriously. It is our goal to create balanced groups of learners that will facilitate the maximum growth for each child, both academically and socially. Many factors are considered when placing students in classes.
Work habits and behaviors, leadership skills, academic achievement, social needs and teaching and learning styles help us to build learning communities that will support the needs of each learner.
In order to help us select the best placement for your child(ren), we ask that you honor the following:
- Discussing classroom placement with your child’s current teacher or any Windermere staff members places them in a difficult position. Kindly direct questions/concerns to Mrs. Nolan or Mrs. O’Keefe.
- Decisions about your child’s classroom placement are made in collaboration with other colleagues and depend upon many social, emotional and academic considerations.
- Due to the complexity of the classroom placement procedures, we cannot honor a parent’s request for a specific teacher. We will review comments that focus on the learning or social needs of your child. Again, we cannot accommodate requests for placements with a specific teacher or with friends.
Submitting the form is not mandatory, but rather, optional.We believe this procedure will create balanced, educationally sound class groups, which will ultimately benefit all of our students. Please feel free to submit your thoughts and insights by returning the form to Mrs. O’Keefe no later than Thursday, April 1, 2016. Please return one form for each child. No forms can be accepted after April 1, 2016.
Thank you for your help in this process. The Windermere Staff
March 18 - Invention Convention in the Multipurpose Room 10:00-10:45
Word Study
My Within Word group is studying long i syllable types: -y (fly), VCe (mice), -igh (flight), VCC (child). The VCC is the most challenging as VC and VCC patterns typically represent short vowel sounds and closed syllables (closed by the consonant(s)) (e.g., twin, wind, etc.).
The Syllable Juncture group is studying present tense -ing endings. They are learning that words that base words with a VC pattern double the consonant (swim becomes swimming) and base words with a VCC pattern just add -ing (rest becomes resting).
Reading Workshop
Students studied facts versus opinions. This gets very tricky for 8 and 9 year olds when they share a fact that is a personal opinion. For example, it is an opinion that mint chocolate chip ice cream is the best kind of ice cream. However, it is a fact that I think mint chocolate chip ice cream is the best kind of ice cream.
Students reviewed main idea and inference as well, supporting both with evidence.
Writing Workshop
Having spent so much time researching and taking notes on our African American biographies, I found our writing had regressed. In response, we focused on writing this week with daily paragraphs for our pen pal letters. Using checklists which held students accountable for convention and content, I saw our writing improve quickly.
Students should be independent (with the help of a checklist) for the following writing components:
- Respond to the prompt
- Clear topic sentence
- Minimum of 6 details (5 W's, 5 senses, Feelings)
- Clear conclusion
- Indent paragraph
- Capital letters at the beginnings of all sentences
- Capitalized proper nouns
- Punctuation at the end of sentences
Challenge elements include:
- Sentence variation (longer and shorter sentences)
- Rich vocabulary
- Transition words
- Not conversational (Outlaws: I'm going to tell you... That's what I know about... I hope you like...)
Math Workshop
We are studying measurement. Students should be able to tell time to the minute, hour, quarter-past, half-past, and quarter-till. Students should also be able to determine the missing variable when given two variables to an elapsed time story problem. For example, Christopher started cleaning his bedroom at 12:15. He finished at 3:45. How long did Christopher work on his bedroom? Please ask your child to tell you the time using an analog clock as often as possible and challenge them to tell you how many minutes till future times (e.g., bedtime).
I introduced using rulers to measure length to the nearest quarter inch and to use this data to create line plots.
Several students have asked for resources for learning math facts. Having used up my bag of tricks and a strategy approach, I recommend using flashcards for any student who has not yet mastered their facts. Make a pile of "don't know" cards and hit them for a few minutes daily. I asked colleagues for some additional online suggestions. They shared the following websites you may want to look at. iPads also have apps you can use, many of which are free. I like the ease of flashcards, but each student is different.
Front Row Math,
https://www.frontrowed.com/
NCTM (National Council of Teachers of Mathematics)
http://www.nctm.org/Classroom-Resources/Interactives/
Illuminations
http://calculationnation.nctm.org/
Science
Invention Convention prototypes and completed presentation boards are due next Friday, March 11th.
Garden permission slips are due March 17th.
I love getting to watch other teachers and I got to observe a 5th grade science design challenge. I modified it slightly for our class. Students worked in teams to build the slowest marble run.
Important Dates and Reminders
From Mrs. Nolan and Ms. O'Keefe...
20162017 Student Placement Procedures
This is the time of year when parents and teachers begin to think about next year’s class placement for our students. The classroom teachers, the school counselor, special area teachers, support staff and the principal will collaborate to form next year’s classes.
The placement of students into classroom groups for next year is an important task that we take very seriously. It is our goal to create balanced groups of learners that will facilitate the maximum growth for each child, both academically and socially. Many factors are considered when placing students in classes.
Work habits and behaviors, leadership skills, academic achievement, social needs and teaching and learning styles help us to build learning communities that will support the needs of each learner.
In order to help us select the best placement for your child(ren), we ask that you honor the following:
- Discussing classroom placement with your child’s current teacher or any Windermere staff members places them in a difficult position. Kindly direct questions/concerns to Mrs. Nolan or Mrs. O’Keefe.
- Decisions about your child’s classroom placement are made in collaboration with other colleagues and depend upon many social, emotional and academic considerations.
- Due to the complexity of the classroom placement procedures, we cannot honor a parent’s request for a specific teacher. We will review comments that focus on the learning or social needs of your child. Again, we cannot accommodate requests for placements with a specific teacher or with friends.
Submitting the form is not mandatory, but rather, optional.We believe this procedure will create balanced, educationally sound class groups, which will ultimately benefit all of our students. Please feel free to submit your thoughts and insights by returning the form to Mrs. O’Keefe no later than Thursday, April 1, 2016. Please return one form for each child. No forms can be accepted after April 1, 2016.
Thank you for your help in this process. The Windermere Staff
Important Dates and Reminders
I will highlight new and changed dates on subsequent posts in red.
March 2 - Early Dismissal Professional Development 1pm
March 11 - Invention Convention prototypes due. See previous post.
March 15 - Voting Day, students eat in the classroom. No peanut products please.
March 15 - Voting Day, students eat in the classroom. No peanut products please.
March 17 - 3rd Grade Musical Performance directed by Mrs. Delcamp 7:00-7:30. Please do not send in instruments till the 14th. With the garden harvest and Invention Convention already going on, we don't have room. Thank you.
March 18 - Invention Convention in the Multipurpose Room 10:00-10:45
March 18 - End of Third Quarter
March 21 through 25 - No School Spring Break
March 28 - No School Teacher Grading Day
Please make sure your student has a working pair of headphones or earbuds for April testing! There will be auditory instructions on some assessments.
April 5 - Progress Reports sent home
April 6 - Early Dismissal Professional Development 1pm
April 12 and 13 - Ohio English Language Arts Assessment
April 20 and 21 - Ohio Mathematics Assessment
April 29 - Kid Fest 5 to 8pm
May 27 - Last Day of School for Students
Tuesday, February 23, 2016
Newsletter for February 26, 2015
What We Learned
Author Visit
Windermere parent, author, toy company owner, and all around renaissance woman, Mrs. Love, visited our room this week to share the craft of writing. We are hoping to have her back to work with us on creative writing.
Windermere parent, author, toy company owner, and all around renaissance woman, Mrs. Love, visited our room this week to share the craft of writing. We are hoping to have her back to work with us on creative writing.
Her first picture book, Princess Kitty Butterfly, offers a positive message of inner strength and self belief. We did a follow up activity with her book where we all shared what we aspire to be without fear. One common fear students have is "not knowing" and asking for help or clarification. We talked about the importance of overcoming this fear to reach our full potential.
No fear of not knowing!
Black History Month Research
In early January, our class
attempted to create a list of famous African Americans that have helped to
shape our country. Unfortunately, we were only able to come up with five Africa
Americans that shaped our country: President Barack Obama, Dr. Martin Luther
King Jr., Rosa Parks, Jackie Robinson, and George Washington Carver. We agreed
we should learn more.
We now understand
there are countless African Americans that have (and continue to) made our
world a better place. We simply need to educate ourselves about them. These are just a handful that we have learned about. Below you can hear our legacy statements by clicking on the videos, which we made with YakIt.
Our focus was on legacy, what our
research subjects contributed to our country, our culture and our individual
lives.
The next time you visit Windermere, I hope you will take the time to read and
learn about these amazing people.
Booker T. Washington
by Abbey
Jackie Robinson
by Anthony
Louis Armstrong
by Joey
Maritcha Lyons
by Lauren L.
Bessie Coleman
by Wes
Harriet Tubman
by Bethany
Virginia Hamilton
by Elise
Bass Reeves
by Drew
Alice Couchman
by Ella
Satchel Paige
by Zach
Elizabeth Cotten
by Josephine
Langston Hughes
by Jack
Guion Bluford
by Meredith
Mae Jemison
by Caroline
Tiger Woods
by Maddy
Medgar Evers
by Macie
Barack Obama
by Blake
Sojourner Truth
by Lauren C.
Marian Anderson
by Christopher
Wilma Rudolph
by Cal
Ms. Antwi
We were also visited by Ms. Nadlin Antwi from Life Care Alliance. She talked to students about Black History Month, African American culture, the slave trade, the Civil Rights Movement, her family's heritage and the power of language.
Guidance
Ms. O'Keefe visited to review the Zones of Regulation. She is building a common language for students to share feelings.
March 2 - Early Dismissal Professional Development 1pm
March 4 - Invention Convention display boards due. See previous post.
March 11 - Invention Convention prototypes due. See previous post.
March 17 - 3rd Grade Musical Performance directed by Mrs. Delcamp 7:00-7:30
Please see the attachment below from Mrs. Delcamp for more details. I sent home a flyer today, which I realize is not very green:(
Click to enlarge.
Students are supposed to make instruments from recycled materials for the musical and they are due on March 14th. Here are two links to some great instruments. I hope you may find some inspiration in them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=8Nmnckhhs-I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWXrN3nIZyI
March 18 - Invention Convention in the Multipurpose Room 10:00-10:45
March 18 - End of Third Quarter
March 21 through 25 - No School Spring Break
March 28 - No School Teacher Grading Day
April 5 - Progress Reports sent home
April 6 - Early Dismissal Professional Development 1pm
April 12 and 13 - Ohio English Language Arts Assessment
April 20 and 21 - Ohio Mathematics Assessment
April 29 - Kid Fest 5 to 8pm
May 27 - Last Day of School for Students
Friday, February 19, 2016
Invention Convention
INVENTION CONVENTION TIME
This project will require some homework. I have attempted to detail all important steps and deadlines.
February 15-19 (at home) Identify three common, everyday problems. This homework sheet was sent home this week. Students viewed a slide show of common problems and inventively simple solutions to get them thinking. I am looking for problems third graders can solve, not robots or time machines;) They will inevitably think of solutions without focusing on the problems first. A good rule of thumb is if they anticipate needing to use electricity, focus on simpler problems. Although, I did have a student use MIT's app builder for children to design a phone application that turns off your cellphone as you approach an intersection. Each student is a different learner and I expect to see a wide range of projects.
Mrs. Leahy's students' problems are due Wednesday, February 24th.
Mr. Kerstetter's students' problems are due Thursday, February 25th.
Mr. Hudson's students' problems are due Friday, February 26th.
February 22-26 (at school and home) With guidance, students will select one of their problems and develop at least one solution. They will complete their Invention Convention packet, which walks them through all of the steps of their invention. Some students may need to finish this at home if they do not finish it at school. However, most will finish at school. The purpose of the journal is to generate ideas and organize them. I am not concerned with spelling or other forms of convention, just ideas and creativity.
February 29-March 4 (at home) Students use their Invention Convention packet, to design and construct their display board. The display board is intended as an aid for presenting. Three sided display boards are commonly available at office and teacher supply stores. Please do not use poster board as it is hard for the students to talk, hold their student journals, and model their solution with their prototype.
(click to enlarge)
Please write your student's name and their teacher name on the back of their display board so it is easily visible.
Here are several display board examples. While these don't follow all of the requirements for the board above, they will give you and your student some ideas. I have shared many different examples with your student so they should be familiar with this step. Anything on their board should be securely attached so it won't fall off. Text should be large and easily visible.. Encourage your student to be creative and have fun! The more of their personality that comes through, the better!
Students can use a computer or markers. Photos of their process are also encouraged, especially if they are able to try their prototype.
March 14-18 (at school) Students will practice presenting with an emphasis on presentation skills and responding to questions.
March 18 (at school) Students will present their inventions to families in the Windermere Multi-Purpose Room/Cafeteria from 10:00 till 10:45. Families are encouraged to help us celebrate student inventions and interview students on their invention process. In the past, many families have opted to take their student (and their materials) to lunch after the presentations. This is a great way to celebrate and to make sure display boards and prototypes go home before spring break.
The most common question I receive is, "How much should parents help?" It is important to note that while we may have some inspiring outliers, these should be student directed problems and solutions. As much as we want to help them (and you can), the ideas and solutions should be theirs. You can ask questions and let them arrive at their own conclusions. The Invention Convention is all about the process, rather than the end product.
This is NOT parent work. You may help your student by encouraging them to think about their invention. You can even help them assemble their boards and prototypes, but students must be able to explain their work and demonstrate understanding of every step of the process. We are not looking for robots or technologically bound solutions, but simple and achievable solutions to problems that impact many people. The real benefit of this project is the student learning. We want our future leaders to see they can identify and solve others' problems.
You can probably help most by having them plan and do a little work daily so they don't have to cram the night before their materials are due.
Friday, February 12, 2016
Newsletter for February 12, 2016
What We Learned This Week
Students finished taking notes for their research subjects. Many finished their biographies today. The rest will finish on Tuesday.
We took our end of unit fractions assessment. I will send these home next week.
The Ohio Wildlife Center visited today for a science and Valentine's Day connection. Thank you for the generous donations! Here are a few photos.
Important Dates and Reminders
I will highlight new and changed dates on subsequent posts in red.
February 15 - No School Presidents' Day
March 2 - Early Dismissal Professional Development 1pm
March 18 - End of Third Quarter
March 21 through 25 - No School Spring Break
March 28 - No School Teacher Grading Day
April 6 - Early Dismissal Professional Development 1pm
April 12 and 13 - Ohio English Language Arts Assessment
April 20 and 21 - Ohio Mathematics Assessment
May 27 - Last Day of School for Students
Students finished taking notes for their research subjects. Many finished their biographies today. The rest will finish on Tuesday.
We took our end of unit fractions assessment. I will send these home next week.
The Ohio Wildlife Center visited today for a science and Valentine's Day connection. Thank you for the generous donations! Here are a few photos.
Woodland Box Turtle
Kestrel
Groundhog
Screech Owl
Red Fox Snake
Important Dates and Reminders
I will highlight new and changed dates on subsequent posts in red.
February 15 - No School Presidents' Day
March 2 - Early Dismissal Professional Development 1pm
March 18 - End of Third Quarter
March 21 through 25 - No School Spring Break
March 28 - No School Teacher Grading Day
April 6 - Early Dismissal Professional Development 1pm
April 12 and 13 - Ohio English Language Arts Assessment
April 20 and 21 - Ohio Mathematics Assessment
May 27 - Last Day of School for Students
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