Darlene Lubinus5th/6th Brain Trust
August 27, 2010 - 10:43 AM
Enjoy your Labor Day Weekend and Monday with your children! Isn't the cooler weather wonderful?!
Just a note about returned work: There are some classes which I will be grading the students' work and then they will be keeping that work in their folders rather than bringing it home right away. Geography is one of those subjects. There is important information on their daily geography packets that I will expect them to know for a test they will take each month. I am scared that if they bring the graded work home, they will lose track of it. Therefore, they will be keeping it in a folder until after the test at the end of the month. When the test is completed, they will bring the work home.
Writing is also like this. I am having the students write every few days and they are hanging on to that work to create a "writing bank" of started material. This will give us pieces that can be edited for a particular trait that we are empahsizing in class. When a selection of writing has been "published" and completed to my satisfaction, then they will bring it home to share with you. PLEASE feel free to ask your children what they have been working on and even show you their work if they bring the folder home. I just want the students to have those papers availible when we need them!
Here is what is on the books for Week 3:
BIBLE: We begin a new chapter in the Young Peacemakers Series about conflict beginning in the heart. Good stuff!
READING: A Wrinkle In Time chapters 4 & 5 along with Literature Circle work. I will give a 10 point quiz over each chapter that they read.
ENGLISH/WRITING: We will continue looking at how to find ideas for writing and talk bout rubrics for grading work.
HISTORY: We have finally finished our American History review. The students will be giving their oral reports about their inventors and I will be giving them some rich background material about the post-Civil War America. They will be taking notes from my discussions and answering questions based upon the notes they took. Good practice!
