Can you believe it's already time for another early release day? Time must really be flying because I feel like we just had one! Please make sure your child knows how they will be getting home from school on Early Release Day this Wednesday. We also have technology class this week, and the Scholastic Book Fair will begin next week. I will let you know when our scheduled day and time to shop will be as soon as I get that information. The book fair will end on Thursday, March 28th, and order forms for our class picture are due on Friday, March 29th. Please check out the Pictures and Videos page to see the work students did today (Monday) on Padlet.com.
I have some more exciting news to share. In the very near future (this week I hope), our class will use Skype to communiuate with a class in Spain! We are going to participate in a virtual book club with a group of 4th grade students who are learning English. More details will come later this week!
I would also like to announce that our class website has recently received the Daily Teaching Tools Top 50 Classroom Websites Award! I feel so honored to be recognized, and hope that our site will be an inspiration to other teachers. The award can be viewed at the bottom of the Welcome Page.
For homework, please remind your student to visit ScootPad as often as possible, and let me know if you have any problems using the site. Stuents are asked to complete 2 math practices and 3 reading practices on Scootpad for homework each week. Please also remind your student to take Reading Counts tests at school. Studnets are asked to pass two Reading Counts tests by March 29th. I hope everyone has a great week!
Highest Regards,
Gina Weber
P.S.- The KET Young Writers Contest is going on until April 13, 2013. If you are interested in more information, please respond to this blog, or send me an email. I will be happy to send home the Contest Rules and Entry Form.