May 15, 2010

Only 12 school days left... not that anyone's counting. Things are wrapping up pretty quick. Faster than I can really keep up with. Our pictures for this week will be two different things. The first is of some of students and their puppets that we've worked so diligently at for the last weeks. They've written puppet plays and created the puppets for those.

The other is what is hopefully going to become the book cover for a book that each of our students will write a part of and each of them will get to take a copy of home. "525,600, 2009-10". The question asked of them, there are 525,600 minutes in a year, what was your favorite of those this school year? There is so much coming up, I'm just going to make a list in hopes that I get it all on here:

May 18-19 - Puppet Shows (Performed throughout the day, just how up to see them)

May 21 - Term 4 Reading Miunutes End

May 21 - DARE Lagoon Day (Student's are encouraged to be at school, it will be counted as an absense if they choose to go to Lagoon instead)

May 25 - Theseus and the Minotaur (In case any of Mrs. Dezember or Mrs. Johnson's parents check this)

May 27 - Field Day (The school is still in need of volunteers if you need hours)

May 27 - Sixth Grade Graduation, 7pm

May 28 - Sixth Grade Boondocks Field Trip

June 2 - Talent Show

June 2 - Last Day of School

As I said, there's a lot coming up. I probably missed something, but that's a good chunk of it. I have pretty much finished collecting things that are actually going to be on grades. Student have until Friday to get missing assignments turned in. I will be giving them a list as well as progress reports on Monday, so keep an eye out for those Monday evening.

All in all, I think that sums it up. Time is moving so fast, and I really am going to miss each and every one of these students!!!

"Time goes by so fast, people go in and out of your life. You must never miss the opportunity to tell these people how much they mean to you."

May 10, 2010

I realize it's been some time since I've written here and I must apologize. It's been an insanely busy month. Here's a couple of our highlights though: Earlier in the year, we wrote a letter to our President of the Unites States. Two weeks ago, we got a reply letter from him that included the letter, a picture of him, and a picture of his dog, Bo. It was pretty exciting.

We also had several from our class participate in the school play, 101 Dalmations!

We've made our way through almost all of our End-of-Level Testing. We'll be taking our last CRT this afternoon. We have a couple of graded tests to take this week as well. The L.A. Theme 6 test as well as the L.A. 4th Quarter Test. Also, a 4th Quarter Math test. After this week however, all of our testing for grades will be finished!

We finished our last story from our reading books last week and turned in the books, so this week will begin something a little different for reading. I have gotten my hands on a class set of the book Tuck Everlasting. We will be reading through it in little Book Clubs (groups of 5). There will be a packet to fill out as they go. Once we've read the book and quizzed on it, we might take a bit of class time and watch the movie as well.

After we test in Math, I think I'm going to just give them some different Math lessons that they might see next year. There will be assignments, but they won't be so heavily graded on how well they do on the concept as if they attempted it or not.

We have also been working heavily on the puppets we are going to be showing in our Informance. That will be coming up the 20th at 2:30 here in the auditorium. All parents are invited to come. It shuld be a fun time.

There is also a ton of things coming up, which information has gone home for already. The 6th Grade Graduation is on Thursday May 27th at 7 pm. Our sixth grade end of year field trip will be on Friday, May 28th. Permission slips should be home and returned ASAP. There were two different forms to fill out for it. I know DARE Lagoon day is coming up soon but they have yet to give us final information on it.

All in all, the end of the year is coming up SUPER quick! Only 17 school days left! (Not that anyone is counting.) I should hopefully be able to find the time to write on a semi-weekly basis again after this one. I'm sorry it has taken this long. At any rate, I'm just happy to still be trucking along with everything that has been going on! You're students are great and I really am going to be sad to see each and every one of them go. I'm not a crying man, but the end of the year could bring a few tears...

THANKS FOR EVERYTHING!!!

"In the end, it's not nexessarily the time you've put in, but what you've put into the time."