Welcome Spring!

Can you believe we're actually starting the final term for the 2016/2017 school year?  I know you're blocked from seeing HAC right now, and I'm putting the largest grade of Term 3 in the books, so I think I'll print off a grade report for your kid and send it home later in the week.  I'll drop you an email when I do it so you know to look for it.

This week is not only the start of Term 4, it's also Coming Home Week, so there are a lot of fun things going on: dress up spirit days, an assembly on Thursday, a dance on Friday.  Here's the schedule for the dress up days:

• Monday - Pajama Day - extra point if you're in Superhero theme
• Tuesday - Dynamic Duo-Twin Day - extra points for Superhero Twins, Superhero vs. Villain, or Superhero & Sidekick
• Wednesday - Superhero Class Color Day - Freshmen are green (or Hulk) - extra points for a Green Superhero (for those of us who are Spartans, this is easy)
• Thursday - Clark Kent Day, also known as Pre-superhero/Nerd Day
• Friday - Wolverine Day - dress in Blue and Gold (for those of us who are Spartans, this is painful)

In the meantime, the academics carry on.  So here is my academic calendar this week:

• Monday, 3/20 
• The 10% Summary from the article we read last week is due, so we'll do the read-aloud, edit, revising and turn it in; 
• Continue verb tense
• Type 1 about research and start the next module
• We'll start reading chapter 1 of the book Animals in Translation by Temple Grandin.  This is the only chapter we read of this book.  As they read, they will need to annotate, keep track of some information on a chart, and do some vocabulary
• Tuesday, 3/21 
• Verb tense 
• Type 2 Quiz over yesterday's reading
• We'll discuss what we read and move forward with Chapter 1 and the annotations, vocabulary, and chart
• Wednesday, 3/22 - Academic Advisory 
• Type 2 Quiz over yesterday's reading
• We'll discuss what we read and turn in the chart and vocabulary; homework will be to do a little more reading and annotation in the chapter
• Thursday, 3/23 - Activity Schedule for the Assembly 
• Type 1 and the discuss the reading from yesterday
• We'll finish the chapter and annotate it
• Friday, 3/24 
• Continue Verb Tense
• A final quiz over Chapter 1 of Animals in Translation 
• I'll introduced the Research Project

So it's a full week.  I hope everyone has a good one as we transition into Spring!  Ciao!

 
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