January 13-17

    Well, we got a little more back into the swing of things this week.  Thursday marked the end of the first semester.  It is hard to believe how fast that time went.  We are making some changes to our schedule and we are excited to make these adjustments.  We are always working to make things better.  Just like we want the student to revise their work and make it better.  We as facilitators are striving to make our work better as well. 
     We kicked off our latest project this week and the students seem excited about it.  This project is based around the American Revolution.  The students will be learning about different event from that time period and they will ultimately be writing and performing a play together.  Not all students are excited about being actors so they will be the directors, stage crew etc.  This should be a lot of fun.  We plan to work with some PHS students during this process as well.  Stay tuned for more information about a trip to PHS. 
     We are starting a new grading period so that means a new Riverside Reads.  Thank you so much for helping to encourage your student in accomplishing this task.  It takes a village for sure!  We will continue to have Achieve 3000 each week as well.  Readers are leaders! 
    We have been working on fractions, decimals and percent this week in math.  This will tie up this quarter and our work with fractions.  We will continue to work on reviewing these topics but will be moving on to geometry for this third quarter! 
     Have a great week! 

Photos from our kick off

Knows and Need to Knows

Working on our flip charts in math