9-17-09

A couple of updates on things we are doing at the school. The school district has bought new Language Arts books for all of the schools. We will be starting in the new books on Monday. It will be a change for us as well as the students but we are looking for huge progress in their reading and writing scores. To help us, please have your child/ren read up to 30 minutes a night. They can read to you, themselves or younger siblings. This will help tremendously. I have also put Mikey, Stuart, Donnie, Eau and John back into Accelerated Math. It is a great program with proven results. I am looking for them to complete at least two levels of math this year. With that in mind, Mikey scored 100% on a test today. Way to go Mikey. Rhea, who is working in our new math books, did very well on her exponents paper yesterday, way to go. With the new math books the students need to complete 1 lesson a day, this includes 1 practice page, notetaking, book work and an online test. There are about 120 lessons in each book, there are 180 days in each school year. They are able to take all materials home each day. I encourage them to do more than 1 lesson a day, this means taking books home and doing homework. Sergie, S, Ryan, Rhea and Kaylene are all in the new books.