October 28-November 1

     Another week is in the books and it was a busy one!  We had great participation in our Red Ribbon Week dress up days!  We had a lot of fun each day seeing what Mr. Hunter and Mr. Premetz would be wearing (always an adventure!)  We hope that through our discussions this weeks helps our students make good decisions. 
     We finished up our latest project with presentations on Friday!  We really appreciate the parents who came in to be part of our panel.  We are going to share your feed back with the groups and hope that this will help them grow.  We had some awesome presentations and some that could use a little bit more work.  We are all at different places and we hope that by watching each other the students will see what they need to work on.  We as facilitators can talk about things until we are blue in the face but if they see it for themselves it will make a difference! 
     We will be doing some peer feed back tomorrow on the project we just finished and then getting ready to kick off our next project on Tuesday.  We hope your children come home excited to share with you what we are up to next!  We want to keep them excited and ready to learn! 
     In math we have been working with fractions in both classes.  We are looking at where we see these outside of the math classroom and when we might use them.  The students are working hard and we have started with a couple of groups a number of the day that we are skip counting with.  The hope is that the more we do this the better students will get with their math facts.  Thanks to those who have been working with their children on their math facts.  We can tell that some have been really working on them. 
      In social studies we worked this week on Red Ribbon activities and in science we started getting our containers ready for the animals (lizards) that will be arriving later this week.  Stay tuned for more on these critters! 
      In language arts we have really been working on writing skills this week.  The more they write the better!  With this new grading period, don't forget that Riverside Reads starts over and students should  not wait until the last minute to get this accomplished.  Also, don't forget each week students are to complete two Achieve 3000 articles at a 75% average as their goal.   Thanks for your encouragement at home on these two programs. 
      We hope you got some extra sleep this weekend with the time change and we look forward to a great week! 

Our mixed match clothes day!

 Practice presentations