October 17, 2013

The students did a wonderful job researching and presenting their Hispanic Heritage Month projects on Puerto Rico! I've uploaded the video to youtube, and you can see it in the post below.

I'm sure everyone is very excited that it's almost Halloween! We'll celebrate in school next Friday, October 25, with the Halloween Fun Fair. Students are welcome to wear costumes to school that day. We will also be decorating our ofrendas then. Please make sure that everyone brings in a shoebox (if they haven't already) and pictures or objects to place onto their altars. We will have a normal uniform day on October 31.

In math class, we have begun to take a weekly timed test on the multiplication tables. Every student started with the two's. If they passed, they'll take the test on the three's this week. If they don't pass, they'll need to write down the times tables for homework, then retake the test the following Friday. This will be almost every week, unless it is a week with lots of tests. For example, the next two weeks have quite a few end of the unit tests, so students will not need to take the times tables test.

Several units are winding down, so we have several tests in the next few weeks. On Tuesday, October 22, will be a religion test on the first three commandments and the covenant. On Friday, October 25, will be the science test on ecosystems and food chains. The following week, Wednesday, October 30 will be social studies, and Thursday, October 31, will be math.