Hello,
You will see the second quarter report cards come home on Friday. Once again, it has been decided that there will be no letter grades. I don't think that you'll ever see letter grades on the HBS report card. The biggest change from the first quarter is that the math portion of the report card has been shortened considerably. We will grade the major areas of math with a 1, 2, 3 or 4, but will not grade each individual skill. The individual skills will no longer be shown on the report card either. If you want to know the details of the math grades, you can ask your child's math teacher for more information.
In reading class today we read tandem poems from the 1989 Newbery Award winning Joyful Noise by Paul Fleischman. The poems require two voices, sometimes alternating, sometimes simultaneous. All of the poems focus on members of the insect world. The class did a good job of choosing, practicing and then perfoming their poems. Some children chose to read color-themed poetry. I decided to assign them homework that followed up on the theme of colors as symbols. They just need to write a few lines with a color as the major focus.
My math class dipped our foot into the pool of three dimensional shapes today. I know that they will enjoy the next few days of deeper exploration into geometry. It will culminate with Marshmallow Geometry where we will create pyramids and prisms using toothpicks and mini-marshmallows.
Have a good night.
Mr. Shea
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