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April 24, 2015
Change to SBAC Schedule
I will be out Monday morning, so our class will start SBAC testing on TUESDAY next week. There will be no SBAC test on Monday. We will catch up with the other fourth grade classes on Wednesday, when we have some flexibility in scheduling. Please understand that this change in schedule affects ONLY our class, not the other gr. 4 classes.
Posted in Class Updates|By Jon Moss
April 23, 2015
Teach Us Something, Somehow
I’ve really enjoyed reading the kids’ idea proposal forms for the Teach Us Something, Somehow project! This is a project that is near and dear to my heart, and seeing the kids’ terrific, creative ideas is wonderful. I developed the project back in 2011 as a way to motivate students to excel in research. So often, we prescribe a topic or a method to students, and the outcome might be a lackluster interest in the project. My logic was that if students have near autonomy to choose a topic and a method of presentation, they can’t help but have a substantial interest in their project. Hopefully this is the case for your children! As the project continues, please be in touch with me if you have questions or experience challenges. I’m happy to help! Thank you to the families that attended the TUSS parent session on Tuesday! For more resources throughout the TUSS project, visit the TUSS webpage.
Most of the proposal forms have been approved and will be returned to students tomorrow or Monday. Kids are welcome to begin working on the project as soon as I’ve approved their proposal, whether it’s been returned to students or not. This is the fun part, and I hope you enjoy it! 🙂
Posted in Class Updates|By Jon Moss
April 22, 2015
New Method for Spelling Assessments
In order to streamline the process of giving and scoring spelling assessments on Fridays, I’ve started having students complete their assessments online. This allows students to complete the tests at an individual pace, hear words repeated as needed, etc. I can also get an instant score report. Unfortunately, there is no way to email reports, so I cannot “push” a copy to parent inboxes. Knowing that parents will want to see their children’s spelling results, we have started saving the score reports to a folder in each student’s Google Drive. Your fourth grader should be able to show them to you on-demand. So far, this process has gone very well!
Posted in Class Updates|By Jon Moss