In your student’s  Wednesday folder you will find the final progress report for this trimester.  Grades close on September 18th, with report card grades locked in on September 25th.  Our second trimester begins on the 21st of September and goes through the middle of January.  There are many holidays and weeks off during the next  grading period, so it sounds like a long stretch but add in 6 weeks off for October, Thanksgiving week, and two weeks Winter Break and that trimester is all chopped up.

Please encourage your child to continue to put in lots of effort.  The distributive property takes perseverance (chapter 4 in math) and we have scheduled a chapter test in both science and social studies in the next week.  We continue our work with verbs,  punctuating  dialogue, and subject verb agreement within sentences.  We have also begun the task of publishing a single paragraph article on our chrome books.  The students have each set up their own folders, shared them with me, and are awaiting the final edit.  Hopefully we will have this completed this week and begin our rough drafts of the city habitat project. Thank you for your help in getting the notes and observations written down. I look forward to the sharing that will occur in the next few days.

Our track off day is Friday, October 2nd, for those of you counting the days!