Classroom Donations

Thank you for donating the items requested at Open House. I so appreciate your generosity!

Mid-Terms

Please look for your child's first mid-term report on Friday 9/28/12. I have included a signature line for you to fill out and return to school. Please note that some subjects have few grades and may result in lower scores at the moment. If you are concerned with a grade, please email or call me. Several students have missing work, which is a reason for some low scores on the report. As soon as the work is turned in, you will see a nice change in their grade.

Saturday Live

Please join us this Saturday for the annual Saturday Live event. The hours are 10-5. The Arrowhead basket auction will begin at noon. We have some fabulous baskets displayed in the foyer at school. Help support out technology program by bidding/purchasing a basket. Hope to see you there!

Spirit Day

We will have Spirit Days this year - $1 donation to our technology fund. Our first Spirit Day will be October 31 "Orange and Black Spirit Attack".

Saturday Live

We have chosen a "Think Pink" and "Sports" theme for our baskets this year. The pink items are coming in daily, but we only have two items for the sports basket. Please consider donating to this fundraiser to help raise money to stay right here at Arrowhead for technology. Our goal is to have all items collected by Open House to be prepared for Saturday live on September 29th.

Parent Open House/Power School

Please mark your calendars for Parent Open House night this Thursday, 9/20/12. A note with specific times will be in your child's Tuesday folder this week. You will also find the access information for you to launch the Power School site and see your student's academic progress/grades in their folders as well.

Scholastic Books

Book orders are due this Friday 9/7. Each online order will help us to get a FREE book for our classroom library. We are currently working on building our higher level library from 5.0 - 6.5.

Testing Time!

We have completed our S.T.A.R. test to get our beginning of the year reading level and zone. I am really pleased, and proud of the reading levels our students have accomplished. Students are asked to check out all three library books each week. I suggest one chapter book around their Independent Reading Level (IRL), one chapter book lower in their zone, and one book for pleasure. This will ensure that the students are getting an adequate amount of daily reading in their levels. We will keep one of the library books at school for daily SSR reading. The other books can be taken home to complete their nightly reading.

Students who have scored above 6.5 IRL are asked to read in the bottom or their zone up to 6.5. We want students to read age-appropriate materials. It's such a fine line to keep our top readers reading, but not over their maturity level.

NWEAs have been schedule for our class on Monday 9/10, Tuesday 9/11, and Thursday 9/13. We will begin testing at 8:30 am. Tests will include Reading, Math, and Language skills to get a baseline to start the year.

First Homework Assignment

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Create a scrapbooking design