Tonight's homework is a "Quick Check" math worksheet. Some students also need to complete a multiplication page which should have been completed and handed in today. Several of them never made it to the finish line, so I gave them out a 2nd time.
Everyone had a look at the reading logs they've handed in since January and it turns out that (SURPRISE!) some children haven't handed in a reading log in some time and some haven't handed in any in 2013.
This is written in their planner every night as part of their homework. Readers succeed in life.
Tonight was the first night of parent-teacher conferences. I shared my concerns about the upcoming tests and what I will do to try to help kids be ready.
Today we practiced strategies for multi-step problems, completed the weekly ELA test, wrote persuasive paragraphs, completed summaries of reading group books, and worked on Washongton D.C. memorials research.
I showed the kids how to go into Powerpoint and use the insert function to "draw" their summary charts on a Powerpoint slide. Since most kids are very slow typists, I thought that this would be a good first step to using some of the Microsoft Office suite that will be valuable to them as they continue their academic career.
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