Naaktgeboren's Class Blog

Greetings Families, I hope you are doing well. This week we have concluded our study of fractions, but many students are still struggling to understand them. We will continue to review them during class time, during morning work, and during math tutoring. Over the next weeks, they should start to gain a better mastery of the concepts they are still struggling to understand.  Ms. Rasic and I have been really focused on classroom behaviors over the past couple of weeks, and we are seeing improvements. We've struggled with students talking, shouting out, and getting out of their seats. I'm proud of the growth they've had this week.  Typing Some students misunderstood the assignment. They are only required to type the copy work once and have the whole week to do it. Some students were doing it every night. I'm sorry for the miscommunication.  Math Facts The math facts worksheet that I am sending home for students to complete in part nightly is not a timed assignment. They ...

Greetings Families, I hope you have enjoyed your weekend. I'm looking forward to starting school today. I have a couple of quick notes, and then I'll jump into the lessons for this week.  First, today is spirit wear day. Students should wear uniform pants, socks, and shoes, but instead of the uniform shirt, they may wear an Arete spirit wear shirt to celebrate our 100th day of school. Second, we've added two short homework assignments last week and this week. Last week we introduced typing homework. This is just copy work so they can get some practice typing. The other one will go out today. With most students completing XtraMath in the classroom, I'm providing a little math facts practice worksheet for home. There is one for each day of the week and it is due Friday. Okay, let's look at the lessons for this week.  Lessons English: Spalding will be the same with nightly homework. We will be creating a final draft of a three paragraph essay on the Titanic and will le...

Greetings Families, I hope you are doing well and have enjoyed the long break thus far. Please remember that there is no school tomorrow, January 18th, in honor of Martin Luther King Day. On Tuesday, we will be reading this article  about Martin Luther King Jr. together, but feel free to read it yourself or with your child (students participating in the 95% reading intervention will not be reading this article with the class). I suspect that many students are aware of the events from this summer, and this is likely a good conversation for families to have with their children. We will not discuss the current events in the classroom.  Fractions Before I get into lessons, I wanted to make sure you knew that I sent home graded work on Friday which included an assignment grade report. Some of you may be discouraged by your child's performance on Friday's math test over fractions. I would like to offer a few thoughts about this. (1) Don't let this cause you too much stress. We s...