Late Assignment Policy

Lately, students have been having trouble turning work in on time. In the first quarter, the only thing I gave a late grade for (took points off) was the reading log. This quarter, students will lose 1 point for every assignment that is turned in late. This includes late homework and classwork. In class, when I want students to turn something in, I always stop them from what they are working on, wait until the room is quiet, and then explain what should be turned in, usually holding up an example. We always turn work in to the same place, the homework box. Homework that I want to be turned in is circled on the homework board (as it has been since the beginning of the year), and I remind them to turn it in before we pray. This has been the policy since the beginning of the year, and students should be used to the routine by now.

We have a field trip coming up to see a play version of the book Holes on December 10th. This book was done as a read aloud in third grade, and I highly encourage students to read it again (or read it for the first time if they weren't here last year)! While we will not be reading this book in class, the play will still be a great opportunity to see how professional actors and actresses turn a book into a play, speak fluently and with emotion, and see a great story acted out. This does tie into our current reading project, where students are reenacting scenes from How to Eat Fried Worms. We've divided into four groups, each with a scene and script to share with the class.

In English, we're continuing to look at nouns. Since I would like to go over possessive nouns in more depth, I am pushing the test back to the week after Thanksgiving, probably the Wednesday. I will send a study guide home before Thanksgiving so students can review it over the break. Students have not received a study guide for the quiz in social studies since they will be allowed to use the books we've been creating and taking notes in. The quiz will ask students to apply their knowledge, using the map they create to describe landforms in different regions and looking at their cause and effect chart to predict the weather.