Student Led Conferences

Next week we are going to be having our second round of student led conferences. We will be having half days Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday next week.  This will be an opportunity for us to review our goals from our first SLC, assess progress, and look at current work samples.  Students will be busy preparing for the conferences this week.  Please follow this link to sign up your child 5th grade SLC sign-up sheet.

I am still in the process of collecting money for the Star of India trip.  Please make sure to return the completed packet as soon as possible.  I also need students to return the syllabus for the hero project.  Make sure that you read the expectations with your child then sign and return the packet.  Some students have lost or misplaced their packets, so if you need to print out an additional syllabus, please click on the following link Hero Syllabus.  The signed syllabus and three correctly sited sources are due Monday, March 18th.

This week we are going to be completing our final drafts for our persuasive essays.  Students who have not finished their rough drafts will need to take them home to finish.  Since the students will be using Google documents, you can log on with your child to check their progress and give some feedback.  Today I reviewed the publishing requirements of the assignment.  Each student needs to print out two final copies.  One copy will go into their portfolio and the other will be submitted for grading.  The persuasive essays are due Friday, March 22nd.