Hello all and good evening,
I am excited to begin another week with your students. I look forward to getting to know them more on a personal level as well as on an academic level. I guess the great thing about being new to the school is that I can begin this year with a clean slate. I will be doing informal assessments this week to ascertain where students are in reading, math, and writing. To let you know, I will be looking at grammar, punctuation, sentence structure, as well as handwriting. I will also look at the understanding of place value, math operations, as well as where they are in understanding mathematical concepts. Where this is a lot of work to know where everyone is, it is also exciting to get an idea of where they are and where they need to be.
I hope that everyone has had a wonderful and restful weekend. If you have not had a chance to see the classroom yet, please drop by after the luncheon on Thursday. I hope that many of you are able to attend. This is a new activity for MMA and I look forward to seeing you have lunch with your child. The invite can be seen here in the previous blog as well as on the schools’ website.
The first home project will be in October. We are finalizing the documents for that one and I will be publishing those hopefully by the end of this week. Additionally, we will be having our first Lower El field trip at the end of September. We will be taking the trax to the Clark Planetarium in downtown SLC. This should be a great trip. I am looking for quite a few volunteers to accompany us on this trip. If you can go, please let our parent extraordinaire Mrs. Keener know. The more parents there are accompanying us, the greater the time each student has.
Have an amazing week,
Ms. Shauna