Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Either through me or Mrs. Jodie, all parents have been called, talked to, written to or left voicemails for conferences that requested one. If you received a letter or voicemail, you have to call the office during office hours or return the letter to the teacher to let us know that we need to try again.

Both grades had their math tests today. The tests had a few more problems on them, but they were not worth many points and they were smaller problems. We had learned our lessons last Wednesday, Thursday and Friday and had started the practice problems in class on Thursday as a part of the lessons. We finished most of them on Friday and then worked on the rest and went over them yesterday. The students also have had the extra point assignment for math for a week.

In science, we finished our study guides. The students already had their vocabulary from last week and just had questions that we went over in class added to the study guide. We will review tomorrow and have our test on Thursday.

For heritage studies, we started the study guides today and did most of it. We will wrap those up tomorrow and have our quiz Friday. The students had at least 30 minutes in class yesterday to work on just the heritage studies extra points. About half of the answers they should have already had from when they worked in their work text book and now only have to copy those answers. I did not put too much work for this one because they had gotten it late, and there should be no issues with getting it done if they had stayed on task with the others.

I have brought this up in the past, but feel that it needs to be addressed again. After the students finish a test or one assignment, they have extra time until everyone finishes. For a lot of the students, this ends up being about 15-20 minutes. I cannot make them study or do their extra work at this time, but I always tell them that they should take advantage of the time to do school work.