Last Day...

The PBiS team provided a DJ for us to enjoy--2 hours--on our last school day.

Pep Rally

Summer Reading

Does anyone encourage their students to take reading tests in the summer?  I will be getting a student next fall that is struggling with comprehension.  I'm thinking about encouraging him to read easy books... then go to book adventure.com...it's provided by Sylvan.

Any other suggestions?  Reading logs were passed out today since school is at the countdown of 1.5 days!!

Summer Checklist

My summer break will start May 23...and I plan to:

• take a 10 day trip to eastern Europe the first of June
• spend only one day a week thinking about next fall
• spend 1-2 days on yard work
• exercise more...eat less

Guess I'll stop here...some of those goals look pretty lofty!!

May Baskets

Looking for ideas for May Baskets on pintrest...but since there aren't that many days...I may just go with small cups, pipe cleaners, & bulk candy.  This year the 4th grade has been buddies with the kindergarten class, so this would be a fun activity...


May first will find me attending, with the 'girls'...

Should be fun.

Have a good week.

XXII

   (I have a few students who love Roman numerals)

School Days left...but also include:

one more state testing day (math)

a personal day (me!)

track day

PBiS field trip

What are your summer plans?  I will be taking a pilgrimage to Poland, my oldest granddaughter wants to venture to Mall of America, and who knows what else...

Hurray!

State testing in reading is over...
What will I practice more on next year?

• plurals
• synonyms
• simile
• multiple meaning words
• homophones
• prefix & root word for a double suffix word

for the vocabulary part..

Comprehension

• summarize every story we read
• setting
• sequence a story

Not one point of view question :(

continue to stress the difference between genres

read more poems and this can not be any funny poets...only serious ones!

all in all a good testing day...does that mean I'm done testing?--HA HA  I do have 38.5 sick days to use.

Two Days

Two days and it's testing day...We're ready.

I enjoy hearing all the 'comments' on tv and radio about the good and bad of common core (we have our own state assessments)...charter schools, choice...In my rural area the two choices are public school or homeschooling.

Have a good week...I'll be back to teaching on Wednesday (BIG SMILE). ( Wish I was this skinny, but glad I have a smart board and not a chalkboard!)