8th Day of School Already?

It's hard to believe that we finished our 8th day of school!  Great work is being done in language arts.

Your child brought home a conduct/behavior report today along with their first homework assignment.  I'm making a change from last year.  Homework will come home in Monday folders and be due on Tuesday the following week.  We talked today about homework -- homework is due at the beginning of class on the due date.  Your child must walk into class with homework ready to be gone over and collected.  I will not count any homework that is not complete and brought to class by your child (ie:  not faxed, brought at lunch time, brought at the end of the school day, etc.).  If you, by chance, take your child's homework out of their backpack, THEY are still responsible to make sure that it is back in their possession ready to be collected at the beginning of class.  In order for a student to be working above grade level they must complete all grade level work (on time) -- including in ALL homework.

Word work tests (spelling, syllables, synonyms, etc.) will be on Wednesdays.  We will go over homework on Tuesday and students will have the homework to use to study for the tests.

We begin a whole class literature circle book today.  We will be reading The Skin I'm In by Sharon Flake together as a class and completing the packet as a group and individually in order to learn the procedures and expectations relating to literature circles.

I'm looking forward to seeing everyone on Thursday night for Open House.  We will go over more procedures and expectations.