Week of March 23

It'll have to be quick this week as I've been busy with prepping for grades this coming Thursday and Friday.

This week we will go to a shakespeare production of Twelfth Night on Friday. We will send a consent form on Monday so keep an eye out for that. The letter will have all the details.

We are also going to be taking the state writing assessment on Tuesday morning. If you could give them any last hints for their writing and make sure they get good sleep and healthy food it would be appreciated. We have been very focused on organizing our most important ideas, so hopefully their writing will come out clear and concise.

Hope all is well. I look forward to meeting with you on Thursday/Friday. If you haven't signed up, be sure to let me know when you would like to conference. There are still 7 that haven't signed up.

Sincerely, 

Mr. Emett

Week beginning March 16th

Sorry it took me so long this week. 

This week we will finish country reports. It will be nice to get these out of the way and do more with Shakespeare and writing. We will hold tryouts on Wednesday. My brother will do the casting to try and form objective decisions. We have begun reading Macbeth and the kids seem to have loved it. It was surprising to me how well they have taken to it! Any encouragement from home for this behavior would be appreciated. 

I have given them all their spelling and vocabulary for the week. Sometimes we won't have classroom time to accomplish this, so it may need to be completed at home. 

We are working on graphing equations on the coordinate plane but many of them are still struggling with plotting ordered pairs. Any help with this would be beneficial. I'll try to post a link for them to work on coordinate plane. This is a pivotal concept to be familiar with for middle school. The test will probably be next week on geometry and coordinate plane skills. 

Have a great week.

Mr. Emett