Hello everyone,

 

Another week has come and gone. First, let's get some housekeeping out of the way.

 

In response to concern over the spelling menu, we have begun a spelling menu calendar. Students will record their assignments and the point values on the days that they do them, then they will turn the WHOLE WEEK'S assignments in on Friday. The calendar will live in English folders at school. This will ensure that students have achieve their 30 points and will make it easier for me to keep tabs on where each student is in their week-long spelling practice.

 

The behavior calendar has begun and will be coming home TODAY inside of the FRIDAY FOLDERS. Friday folders have about 10 assignments in them for parents to look at and keep. Behavior calendars should be returned on Monday with a parent's signature in the far right column under the "YES" or "NO" that signals whether the students received their Friday Free Time.

 

The representatives for the Hilldale All-Star's next week are Samantha for Respect, Ben for Leadership, and Liam for Independent Lifelong Learner, so congratulations to each of them for being nominated by their classmates and for working hard this week. As a reminder, the respect representative gets to eat lunch with the teacher on Friday, the leadership representative gets to be the teacher's assistant including feeding the classroom fish "Dash," and the independent lifelong learning representative gets to sit in the "reading reef" chair during all rug activities and they get to read a story on Tuesday and Thursday to the kindergarten class.

 

This week we finished our Lion to Guard Us book reports, practiced bar modeling in math while doing sum and difference problems, and we began typing up our science fair experiments.

 

Next week we will again have our weekly spelling test, will finish typing up the first portion's of our science experiments, and continue improving our daily habits so we can earn the full 15 minutes of Friday Free Time.

 

Thank you for reading and for all of your valuable feedback,

 

Mr. Dyson