Week of May 12th, 2008
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Thanks for making last week so amazing. I was showered with beautiful flowers, lovely pictures, homemade cards, lots of candy, gift cards, and thoughtful healthy treats too. My class also very generously gave me a gift card to Whole Foods market. Thank you to all the students and parents who were so generous with gifts and especially your time. I am so grateful to work in such a wonderful community with terrific kids and supportive parents! Thank you for truly making me feel appreciated.
Upcoming Events:
5/12-5/23: STAR Testing
5/15:Breakfast for Dinner (This is Miss MacKenzie's favorite meal of the day!)
IHOP in El Segundo on Sepulveda 5:00 – 8:00 PM
20% of the sales go to RSS to supplement next year’s budget - this is really important since the cuts to the budget for next year are heavy
5/26: Memorial Day holiday
5/29: Open House
6/5: “Education Rocks” Spring Sing show
6/16: Talent Show
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David Beckham Academy information:
They're offering 3-5 day camps - visit their website or call for more information!
www.thedavidbeckhamacademy.com
310.515.9858
Monday 5/5:
∙Language Arts STAR test
Tuesday 5/6:
∙Language Arts STAR test
Start patchwork quilt
Wednesday 5/7:
∙Math STAR test
continue patchwork quilt
Thursday 5/8:
∙Math STAR test
Finish patchwork quilt
Finish GHS ch 13 summary and ch 14 quote (if they didn't finish it in class).
Writing:
Reading: In social studies students will continue reading the fiction novel "By the Great Horn Spoon".
*D.P.E., or Daily Paragraph Editing, is going to be our focus in the mornings every other week. Each day your child will proofread a paragraph for things like run-on sentences, capitalization, punctuation, and proper word usage. By Thursday, the class reviews all four paragraphs for comprehension. The students are expected to understand the content of the material. The reason for this is that on Friday each student is expected to write his/her own paragraph(s) based on a prompt that reflects the content of the D.P.E. For example, if we complete a D.P.E. about Martin Luther King, Jr., students may be expected to write a paragraph about Martin Luther King Jr. Therefore, it is important that students take their D.P.E. papers home on Thursday for review.
Their Friday writing samples are scored for both content (being on topic and remembering details from the D.P.E. paragraphs) as well as grammar.
Spiraling Through UCSMP Everyday Mathematics This site explains the spiral curriculum and gives a breakdown of the methods I teach for multiplication and division (partial products method, lattice method, partial quotients division method).
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