Naaktgeboren's Class Blog

Greetings Former Families, When you get this email about my blog, you may notice some differences. I've changed the look, but you will also notice that I'm no longer in fourth grade. After four fantastic years in fourth grade, I'm headed back to third grade where my Arete career began. I'm looking forward to the new adventure. If you are getting this email, you will need to unsubscribe so you don't get my weekly updates. There should be a link at the bottom of this email to do so. Don't hesitate to reach out if you are finding it difficult. As you have likely heard, our start date of August 6th is still in place, though we will be starting with a mandatory at-home phase for the first three weeks. Unfortunately, COVID-19 is still impacting our lives. I'm sure you have a ton of questions about what next year will look like. As a teacher and as a parent, I do. I encourage you to attend the town halls Mr. Gillingham will be leading this month. Virtual To...

Greetings Families, I hope you are doing well. I wanted to let you know that the fourth grade team had decided to end weekly updates on the blog and will instead communicate important information through Google Classroom. Currently, all 4B students have accessed Google Classroom, so families should be able to keep up with important information there. I may still use the blog from time to time, so don't unsubscribe yet, but it won't be for the weekly updates. To see the updates in Google Classroom, this will be the first thing that comes up and is called the steam. If your child is in the classwork section of the Google Classroom and you want to see the steam, click on "Stream" at the top of the page. In addition to seeing the weekly update, please go to Google Classroom regularly to review your child's graded and returned work. I recommend that you do this at least once a week, but I am doing my best to grade throughout the week. You can do this by following...

Greetings Families, I hope you are doing well and that you had an enjoyable weekend. Tomorrow is the start of Week 5. Here are some things to keep on your radar for this upcoming week. Uploading Work Going forward, all student work should be uploaded into each assignment. Therefore, once a student completes an assignment, the work for that assignment should be scanned and uploaded into Google Classroom for that assignment. This is preferable because it makes it easier for Ms. Johnson and I to grade the student's work, and it allows for us to give better feedback on how students are doing. If students are completing their work is a Google Form, once they are finished, they should submit the Google Form and mark the assignment as done. There is nothing for them to submit if they are submitting a Google Form. 4-Point Rubric Mr. Gillingham should be releasing a communication about the 4-point rubric we will not be using. Just know that on the scale, a 2-4 is a passing gra...