Apologies for the late update, I'm still feeling a bit under the weather.

 

Because this is report card week, the only thing kids should have for HW is 20 minutes of IXL every afternoon (save for Friday). Otherwise all work in all classes is expected to be completed in-school. 

 

I'm working on grades as we speak! If your student has anything they haven't turned in yet, please have them submit this as SOON as possible. Thursday would be the last day I have to make any changes to the grade book. I will accept email submissions as well ([email protected]). 

 

No missing assignment report this week. If I'm missing anything important, I'll let you/your student know by EoD tomorrow. 

 

Please message with any questions. Thank you for your partnership.

Mr. Brown

Hello 5A Families,

 

Happy last week of the term! We have two main assignments this week, both due Friday: In Social Studies, students should be finished with their United States maps. Instructions are on Google Classroom. In ELA, students should be finished with their second Independent Writing Project (fictional 3-4 page short story). 

 

Students have a unit test on chapters 1-5 in Religion with Ms. Wright. 

 

We will have a quiz in Science on Friday (the Mystery Science unit unfortunately required another week so I compressed the lessons down from 3 into 2. Students can still use the Mystery Science resources to study!) and a Quiz in Social Studies on Thursday on the vocabulary from the most recent chapter that we just finished. 

 

Friday is the last day for late work! Students who are caught up with missing work are: Jack, Austen, Christian-Joseph, Henri, Taylor, Anthony, Arian, and Sebastian. All other 11 students received a missing assignment report. Let me know if you need me to email you a copy of your student's in case they forgot it.

 

If you would like to give permission for your student to watch the Tuck Everlasting movie to finish out our time with the book next week, sign the Wednesday 11/13 parent signature field in your student's planner! I told the class that pizza was on the line if we could get all 19 signatures back in one day. Here is a link to the Parents' Guide review of the film. 

 

Let me know if you have any questions!

Mr. Brown

Happy November!

 

Missing Assignment Reports have all been given to students- all except 5 students (Christian-Joseph, Arian, Taylor, Anthony, Sebastian) were missing at least one assignment. Because this is the first time these are going home, I thought it'd be best to also print off copies of all the work they're missing so they don't need to ask me or go digging later. Normally, the reports would only state which assignments are missing WITHOUT a copy of the assignment paperclipped on. 

 

Please sign your student's Missing Assignment Report and have them bring in the page you signed tomorrow so I know they brought it home. If they submit a missing assignment within the next two weeks (before the end of the term), I will be able to grade it with only a 0.5 point markdown. 

 

As a reminder, I grade and update missing/absent work on Tuesdays, so it could be a week before the grades properly reflect the work students turn in (even if they turned it in right away tomorrow). Thank you for your patience!

 

Homework:

ELA: New Poetry Unit begins this week, we're starting slow outside of the ELA Workbooks with practice poems. Combo Spelling Test will be on Thursday because of last week's Friday mass and this week's Teacher In-service. I'll be grading students' Bluebook progress from units 4-6 during this, so they should make sure their pages are complete!

SS: Final versions of students' clay projects should be ready for our in-school gallery walk on the final period of the day on Thursday! Otherwise, SS classes this week focused on basic civics information and class discussion relevant to the election. No homework.

Math: Math corrections, then extra practice on fractions this week on packets that I made for the kids. First packet is a warmup and is graded on completion, second is slightly more difficult and graded based on proficiency.

Science: The unit is just slightly longer than the amount of time we have left together before the end of the first term. I'm working out a condensed version of the unit so we can start fresh with our unit on ecology for Term 2! I will keep you posted on quiz days- this week we will not have a quiz. 

Hi everyone,

 

Before I send out the normal weekly update, I wanted to let you know that I will be in surgery on the 27th and cannot make any of the meetings that might be scheduled on that day.

 

I wanted to keep the day open for you all as a choice in case both Monday AND Tuesday don't work. If you pick a Wednesday slot, I'll reach out to see if we can schedule a conference at an earlier time or to see if we would need to meet after Thanksgiving break. 

 

Thank you,

Mr. Brown

Hi again,

 

First, I was able to find out how to make PowerSchool provide a list of all missing assignments across all subjects listed under each student! I will be using my prep time on Tuesdays to correct missing work from the previous week and send home up-to-date Missing Assignment Reports with students. This week will be a soft launch of the reports so I don't get inundated by all of the missing work being returned all at once :) Take a look at PowerSchool and check with your student to make sure they haven't forgotten to turn anything in. Anything explicitly marked 'missing' and/or graded with a 0 on PowerSchool I currently do not have at time of posting (~2pm, 10/29).

 

Missing Assignment Reports will go out next week in students' gold parent communication folders and on all applicable Tuesdays thereafter. Students' missing work (and work from absences) will be appropriately updated on PowerSchool on Tuesdays; thank you for your patience and understanding. 

 

I also forgot that kids prefer going trick-or-treating to doing homework (???) so the IXL, Math Practice 3.3, and Codex Project due dates will be pushed back a day so they don't need to do any homework on Halloween night. In other words, 20 minutes of IXL on Friday instead of Thursday, Practice 3.3 due on this upcoming Tuesday, and we'll take an extra day in-class for the Codex Project (also now due on Tuesday). 

 

Let me know if you have any questions!

Mr. Brown

Hi all,

 

An informal survey of the class showed that most students are only half complete with the writing sections of their IWP; some students still need to finish reading their book, as well. I thought it'd be best to push this deadline back a week so the class is in a better position to produce quality book reports. 

 

We will still have one more IWP in this first term of the year, which has a deadline that I cannot change! I've added a big IWP progress tracker to the classroom library so students have a better idea of where the status of their report needs to be at relative to future upcoming deadlines. 

 

Please let me know if you have any questions,

Mr. Brown

Hi folks,

 

Early post to address two assignments posted on the Google Classroom, the Mystery Science Lesson 4 Quiz and the Social Studies Chapter 1 Test. Both are Google Forms embedded within assignments posted to Google Classroom, and have been unlocked so they can be taken from home! They are both due at 9pm on Monday, so they don't NEED to do any work over the weekend unless they'd like to. 

 

Most students have at least STARTED both of these assignments. To maintain their progress, they would need to log into their SASR Student accounts in a Google Chrome browser, followed by heading into the Google Classroom the same way they would on the Chromebooks here. If they are logged into another account (or not logged in at all), or if copy the link from the Google Classroom without entering it like a quiz, their progress may not be reachable. They must follow the guidance above to make sure they don't need to start over.

 

Our first IWP is due this upcoming Friday, the 18th. I will have one more 45 minute work session for students to take advantage of on Friday, but all other work/reading would need to be completed on their own time. 

 

More info to come on Monday!

 

UPDATE: It's Monday! Big things coming up that students wrote in their planners are...

 

Unit 2 Math Test on Wednesday. I recommended all the skills we've gone over through the unit practice worksheets on IXL for students to look through and get additional experience in.

 

Practice 7 is due tomorrow. I won't be assigning Practice 8, we're just going to move into fractions in Unit 3 next week!

 

Spelling Test on Friday. We did much better on this most recent test! Hope to carry that forward this week, as well.

 

Science Quiz #5 on Thursday. Students will need to bring a powerful flashlight (Nothing crazy! Phone brightness or slightly higher is perfect) to school with them on Wednesday to help demonstrate the activity this week. The more we bring, the smoother the activity will go. 

 

Mr. Brown

 

 

Happy Monday!

 

Off to a running start this week!

Additionally, our incredible learning services coordinator, Carey Riggio, shared how to link up students' Fall MAP Scores to their IXL accounts, which generates targeted lesson plans! Every student has received lesson plans in Math and ELA. Anything listed in their plan would be the best use of their time, outside of specifically-recommended skills by myself that align with that week's lessons.

 

Homework Info:

ELA: No spelling test this week. Bluebook (Sadlier Vocab Warmups) scores will be updated to PowerSchool, if a kid needs to finish pages or complete them entirely for a higher score, they have all of this week to do so. New unit and class novel went out today! Homework should be limited to a few pages in the work and whatever students don't finish in class.

Independent Writing Project (Book Report) due next week, Friday the 18th! I will provide two writing 45-minute sessions for students, but that will be all. Instructions/rubric posted on Google Classroom.

Social Studies: Chapter 1 Test this Friday. Study guide is within students' SS textbooks. Focusing on vocabulary would be the most fruitful! A list of all vocab words for the chapter can be found on the Geography Project instructions. Speaking of, I'll be grading and sending those back to students over the course of this week. We are taking a small break before shifting into presentations. 

Math: Lesson 2.6 (Order of Operations) due on Wednesday, followed by Lesson 2.7 (Multiplication & Division Word Problems) due on this upcoming Tuesday. Unit 2 Math Test will be on Thursday the 17th. No IXL required this week, but your student might want to check out their newly-generated learning plan!

Science: Mystery Science quiz will be taken in-class on Thursday. Links to the MS material can be found in Google Classroom for review purposes.

 

Let me know if you have any questions!

Mr. Brown

 

Happy October!

 

Looking forward to seeing many of you at the PTC meeting on Wednesday.

 

Hello 5A Families!

 

Happy new start of the year to everyone. While I'm looking forward to meeting many of you at the Curriculum Night on the 12th, I hope my St. Anthony page can serve to provide important information on the start of the year as well!

 

First, it was a joy getting to meet your students. I'm very pleased with how well they did as we began establishing routines and procedures, and I'm sure that the next few weeks will continue to reveal and develop their focus and preparation. 

 

I tried to get them to head home with their backpacks as empty as possible, save for their parent communication folder and their planner (both of which will be empty). Anything that I'll be sending home with them will go in the folder, and it is a goal of mine to keep the class up-to-date on assignment information and deadlines in their planners throughout the year. I plan on using the beginning of our math periods to update our planners and organize portfolios.

 

Assignment information can also be found primarily on PowerSchool (grades, comments). Last year I enjoyed using Google Classroom as a host for the class's larger projects and rubrics, so you will be able to check specific instructions and deadlines on certain higher-scoring assignments there. Expect a parent invite from me to join the Google Classroom Updates list as we near Curriculum Night. 

 

All work will be completed in class this week, no homework will be required unless there is an absence. Once students receive their St. Anthony and IXL login information from me I will suggest they log in at home to get a feel for that process, but no actual work will be required. 

 

To cap this first update, here is what your students can expect a normal week at school to look like: 

 

Please don't hesitate to ask me any questions that you have. I'm truly looking forward to this school year with all of your students; I hope their first day was as enjoyable as mine.

 

Mr. Brown