January 25 - February 4

I feels like it's been longer than it has since I last posted, but it's been a long couple of weeks with the end of the term and conferences and all. In fact, I put in the picture this week because, as candid as it may be, it describes about how I feel.

The end of the term is past, and we are breaking fresh into the new term. I can see the year is starting to wear on the kids as it seems to be a rough start around on missing assignments. Please have a talk with your students just to make sure they realize the importance of keeping up on assignments and staying strong throughout the entire year. Just a reminder, you can keep watch at home from https://www.classactiongradebook.com/members/login.aspx. Feel free to e-mail or call me if you need your username and password for the online gradebook again.

Science Fair is in full swing. By this point in time, the kids should have their question posed and be just about to begin the researching, experimenting, and observing. The science fair will be worth about half our science grade this term, so please make sure that your student is keeping up on the work. With the questions I have seen, it looks like there are a lot of creative ideas out there this year. It's going to be fun to see the results.

We have a fairly normal week this week. Our story is called "Catching the Fire". It's a story about a blacksmith and his adventures. We'll be finishing up our pop-up book by either writing a story or a series of poems for them. We continue on into our unit on the solar system. And in math, we continue learning how to manipulate integers, and then move onto equations and the patterns they make.

I'll try to keep up on here a little better now that things are back a little closer to normal. I believe that's all we've got for this week though.

"The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.” - Tom Bodett