Naaktgeboren's Class Blog

 Greetings Families, It is growing late into the night, but I did want to let you know that I am so thankful for you (parents and students). My life has been so richly blessed this year by you. In a year filled with so much going on to cause sorrow and confusion, having students to build relationships with and to share life with and parents who are so encouraging and supportive has filled my heart with gladness. Thank you for allowing me to be your child's teacher. Teaching and knowing them is a great joy.  Best, Michael Naaktgeboren 

Greetings Families, I hope you had a great weekend. Here are the lessons for this week. Please remember that this is a short week. We only have school today, Monday, and tomorrow. After the Thanksgiving celebration, Black Friday, and Cyber Monday deals, it will time to focus on generosity. Tuesday, December 1st is #GivingTuesday, a global day to celebrate the good in our community. Please celebrate with us and make your Community Investment gift to our school,  using this link . Your contribution to Community Investment makes a difference to me inside our classroom; it supports my ability to teach your child with a teaching apprentice alongside me and for us to continue to offer a robust specials curriculum including music, French, art, and PE. Please consider giving to support the work of Archway Arete and teachers like me.  LESSONS ELA : We will continue reading Narnia this week. No new Spalding spelling words for these next two days. We will be reciting "The First Thanksg...

Greetings Families,     Quarter 2 Week 6 Update      naakarete.blogspot.com   I hope you are doing well. As we enter week 6, we have four weeks left before winter break. This is a normal season for students to become wearier and more likely to have a dropoff academically. This could be a lack of completing homework, a failure to prepare for assessments, and to become more unruly in class. I will do my best to maintain good classroom order, but you may need to give more assistance at home by checking the students' planners and whether they are completing homework and preparing for assessments.  PROGRESS REPORTS  I'm sending progress reports out by email tonight and with your child tomorrow. If you do not receive one of these, no further action is necessary. If you do receive one, please let me know if you have any further questions and comments with respect to helping your child more toward mastery.  GRAMMAR TEST THURSDAY We have a gramma...

Greetings Families, I hope you have enjoyed your weekend and that your child was able to find success Friday during the 100% remote learning day. This week will be a little wonky because we have Wednesday off. Here are some additional notes about this week. MONDAY - Return Work In-person students need to return all of the work they completed on Friday. Remote learning students should turn everything in on Google Classroom as usual. WEDNESDAY: NO SCHOOL - Veterans Day THURSDAY - Galileo Test This Thursday, students will be taking their second installment of the Galileo assessment. This assessment does not impact the students' grades but is used for internal decisions such as who needs interventions and where to focus our instruction. Thus, please help your child understand the importance of these tests but that they don't need to stress out over these. Also, please ensure that they get good rest the night before and a good meal that morning. Remote learning families will get a r...

Greetings Families, As we prepare to enter week 4, remember that Friday is a 100% distance learning day. Students will have a few tests and assignments to complete that day. They will need access to Google Classroom as well. In-person students do not need to turn anything in on Google Classroom. All work for in-person students should be completed and turned in on Monday. I don't really have much to mention before I get to the lessons. I do want to say thank you to Ms. Pabin and Coach Conklin for helping with the read-a-thon celebration and to those who provided snacks. It was a fun time of reading and writing...and eating! Don't hesitate to reach out to me if you have any questions or concerns.  LESSONS ELA : Please bring in The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe as we start reading on Monday. There will be a normal set of spelling words this week. We will work on some more diagramming skills in grammar. Math : Week four will be focused on learning the six facts if students have n...