The faculty vs 5th grade basketball game was a great time! Thank you for all of your efforts in planning and running the event. It was well attended and it was wonderful to see all of the kids having fun. Of course it didn't matter who won, but I was still thankful to score a couple of points!
Blogging:
Last week was our first round of blogging using our rubrics as a guide. In your child's Friday folder you will see the rubric and we are already noticing more quality blog posts as students self-assess their writing.
Mystery Skype:
We participated in another Mystery Skype this week with a class from Florida. I'm impressed with students' planning and preparation and cooperation during these calls. Students are noticing how quickly they are improving with questioning and their knowledge of United States geography. You can ask your child to show you our shared folder "Mystery Skype" in Google Drive to see all of our collaborative work. Check out Flickr to see what our classroom looks like during a Mystery Skype call.
Here's what we are working on:
- Collecting and interpreting data
- Writing feature articles
- Questioning during reading
- Building our schema for states of matter
Spring conferences will be April 10th and 17th. Last year I created a Wiki for conference sign ups and I'm looking for the best web based way you can view and choose available conference times. I will send something out in the next week or two.
Have a great weekend!
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