Thursday and math info.

Students are responisble for the following material tonight:
-Reading Log
-California study guide pages 56 & 57

Students are responisble for turning in a great deal of material on Friday for grading. Work that is due includes:
Biography / autobiography reports, reading practice book and California practice book.

Many of you have expressed a concern for your child's math grades. The curriculum that we are using this year is complex. It is mixture of fourth and fifth grade material and is challenging. As I mentioned earlier in the year, this current book is one of two programs that we use during the course of our studies. We are currently in the final 20 lessons of this book, and will finish the book by the end of April. The last third of the book is difficult and I expect the kids to struggle. As we transition into the second book, the kids will find the material too easy. The last month of school, roughly May to mid June, will be review of what we have accomplished with math thus far. I will pepper the instruction with more fifth grade material, but will generally use the time to reinforce and reteach what we have learned so far. Please be patient. It takes a while to hone math skills.

Respectfully, Mr. B