Well, we have finished our first full week of school! What a busy week we had. We have the students into their schedule and things seem to be running smoothly. The students all have their MacBooks and we have worked hard to take care of any issues they had to start with. Most students computers seem to be working well now that we have cleaned the old stuff out of them!
We kicked off our first PBL project this week and the driving question is, "How does a large event impact a community?" Of course this question has led our students to think about our large event the Blueberry Festival! Students have been put into groups and finished up group contracts on Friday! We will be working on this project for the next several weeks. We are excited to see what the students come up with during this project.
This week students were introduced to Achieve 3000 and they were able to practice a few activities with our help. This week we are asking students to complete two articles. After Labor Day this will be an expectation each week. The expectation is that the activities be completed with an average of a 75% average. We will be giving students points in language arts for this requirement. This is a program that is based on each students reading level and we have seen great growth from students how complete the requirements each week. We hope that you will help encourage your child to do their best on this each week. Also, remember that students are to be reading each night for 30 mins.
We will be starting some new math online programs this week to help with math skills and math facts. We will be introducing these programs this week and students can work on these at home as well as here at school. Some students are struggling with their math facts and we encourage them to practice their math facts daily. Any help you can give at home would be greatly appreciated. Students who know their facts have a lot easier time learning more difficult skills.
Don't forget that next week there is no school on Friday for students. We hope you have a great week!
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