Naaktgeboren's Class Blog

Greetings Families, I know this email is a little late to provide any assistance tonight, but I wanted to let you know about a new resource I've added to my blog to support your child's study of history at home. At the end of our first year as a school, we were lucky enough to find someone willing to sell us the Pearson Core Knowledge history textbooks, which are no longer in print. Sadly, we only have 30 copies of this book and thus share across the grade level. It also complicates the fact that we cannot send them home for students to use to study. To correct that need, I have scanned the the book and have placed Google Docs up on my blog. You can find it under the resource tab or at  http://naakarete.blogspot.com/p/history.html . It is not required that students use this resource, but it may prove helpful if a student is absent one day or if he or she just fails to understand a topic discussed in class. Best, Michael Naaktgeboren

Greetings Families, I have two things to address with you about work you will be receiving tomorrow. Weekly Participation Report Tomorrow, your child, if present Friday, should be coming home with their first weekly participation report. This is first filled out by the student and then adjusted by me if necessary. Some students are a little easy on themselves, while most are a little too harsh. You can tell my notes as they are darker in the photocopies I am sending home. I have also given some students comments or goals, which can be found in the box at the bottom. There are two areas of which I would like to address with you before you receive these. If your child received poor marks, there are six weeks left for them to bring their grades up in the participation category. The students know my expectation as we discuss these regularly, but they may not have realized how important they are to their grades. This is a way for them to have that reality set it. In addition, if a ...

Greetings Families, I hope you are enjoying your weekend. It is hard to believe the first three weeks of school have come and gone. Yesterday, I sent out my first group of invites for math tutoring after school. If you did not receive an email regarding this, your child at current is not invited to attend. If your child is struggling through math concepts at home, please let me know. I can work with your child before school or during first recess. Here are the lessons for the week. Lessons History : This week in history students will continue their study of the countries of Europe. They will look more closely at the early Middle Ages with a study of the split of the Catholic Church and the effect that this had. They will learn about the contributions of monks and nuns, and how books were written. The week ends with a study on Charlemagne. Science : Having successfully completed the unit on chemistry, students will review their notes, and the class will have one final discuss...