Wild Tuesday

Today was a pretty wild day. The third graders must know that they have that half day coming up because boy were they crazy this afternoon! :)

Today we spend time doing a math assessment, practicing our spelling with a game called Cherry Pie (ask your student about this one... they beg to play!), and finishing an art project we started last week on warm and cool colors.

I am noticing a trend with the students lately. Not as many have been bringing in their homework. This would be a great dinner table conversation to have tonight to make sure students are doing their best. Homework is graded on an "effort" basis. If students do their homework, and it is complete, they get full credit. No homework turned in, means a zero in the grading book. While homework itself is only worth 5-10 points, not turning in homework will significantly change the students' grades over the course of the quarter. We have homework EVERY Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday. There are few exceptions to that rule, and generally occur when we have a short week or a holiday week. If those exceptions are the case I will keep the blog updated with no homework.

Students are also required to make up any missed homework and assignments when they are gone. While I support students being gone when they are ill, so the rest of the class does not get infected, it is extremely important that students are here EVERY DAY. When students miss school they are missing out on valuable learning time and are being put behind of the rest of their classmates when they are absent. It is much harder on students who are gone because they are expected to pick up where the class left off, rather than where they left off when they were last at school. Thank you to those families who are supportive in making sure their students are here, every day, and on time!