Hello,
It's getting really late in the year to have to remind them about reading their work over. Punctuation, full sentences, capital letters... these things should be old hat. I wasn't overly impressed with this afternoon's output. I really don't want to hear, "Oh yeah!" when I ask what they should do at the beginning or end of a sentence. Do it. There were lots of rewrites today.
I got more reading logs this week. This was due to stiffer penalties. I'm sure I'll get even more next week. For every twenty minutes of reading that I'm not seeing done at home, students are losing a recess at school. I never take more than one recess a day from them, but losing the longer one is not sitting well with some of them. I hate to have to "force" them to read at home, but I'll do what I feel I have to do to give them a better future.
My math class dipped into some long division today. We may be the last to get there, but I think they are well prepared to have an easy time of it. They'll be pros at it in no time. And they'll understand what they are doing, rather than just following a pattern. We are lucky to have a Bowdoin student, Helen, joining us on Tuesdays and Thursdays for her second semester. We just met her today, but she seems like a keeper.
No Lego Club on Thursday. I have an IEP meeting with parents and staff members. We'll get back at it next week. Sorry for the inconvenience. They schedule the meetings and I go to them.
Have a good night.
Mr. Shea
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