Missing Book!

           

          For the last four weeks our class has been reading Historical Fiction books in book clubs (a group of students is reading the same book).  Our book club books come from; our school library, my personal library, and our ELL (English Language Learner) teacher’s library.  Unfortunately, we are missing one of the books that belongs to the ELL teacher.  These books are not checked out in student’s name, they are responsible for keeping the book in a safe place and returning it when they are done. 

            Could your family please do our classroom and ELL teacher a favor and check out around your home for our missing book. It is called WWII: An Interactive Adventure.  It is a rather thin book with a blue and red spine.  Your child knows what it looks like. 

            Because the book is accessible to all students (they sit out on the counter in bins), our next step would be replacing the book for the ELL department.  The book costs $7.00, which means each student would owe $0.25 if we do not find it. 

Please take a look at home.  It would be greatly appreciated!

Hello again...

We are fully into the swing of semester two.  With increasing my expectations on students (we are now doing more to prepare for 6th grade), I have also increased the expectations I have for myself. One of those increased expectations is to be better at posting online grades.  During the first semester, I was learning our new online grading system on infinite campus.  I am now feeling comfortable and have been adding/updating grades on a weekly basis.  Please log into your infinite campus site to check up on your child's progress.  

I, along with two other teachers at Badger, am an Internal Site Coordinator for school wide PBIS. Twice a year, we have a planning day.  Our second day is this Tuesday, Feb. 17th.  I will have a sub for the whole day.  Students know that I will be gone and that the expectations stay the same.  Please remind and encourage your child to be kind and respectful.  Subbing is a difficult job, and my hope is that our class is inviting and welcoming to any adult that comes into our classroom.  

On Monday, we will be starting Unit 6 for Math.  We will not be learning any new mathematical operations.  However, we will be using everything we have learned so far to problem solve our way through different situations and math problems (real world story problems).  Your child is assigned homework every night. Some days, they are given work time at the end of our Math period to complete the homework.  Or, if they use their WIN time wisely, they may be able to complete the Remembering side.  I am going to require that students bring their math work home even if they finish. That way, you as the parent will be able to see their progress and have a better understanding of what we are working on day-to-day.  Be on the look our for stapled papers of math on a daily basis.  One page will be the homework and the other will be any activity pages we completed during class.  This will help with homework completion at home. 

Tuesday, Feb. 17th, Badger School is hosting a McDonalds (on Bluemound) night to support the upcoming performance of Annie.  Please stop by between 4-8 and a portion of your purchase will go to the production.  I will be cleaning tables and delivering food from 4:30-5:00. :-)

     

Have a wonderful week!