Conference time is coming up in the next couple of weeks. If you would like to meet with me, I am happy to schedule a time. I am available before school most mornings and also all day on October 13. Please just email me your availability. I am also happy to try to stop in to your regularly scheduled conference with homeroom teachers if that is easier. My contact: [email protected] Math grades are updated in our Synergy gradebook system. You can log into Parent Vue at any time to see how your child is doing. I will warn you that I only add grades once every couple of weeks. For my math classes, assessments and homework make up almost all of the grades. Homework is worth 20 points each week. Assessments are each worth 100 points. I rarely grade practice assignments because they are just that - practice! And remember that students have the option to fix assessment scores with extra work and reflection (see last week's post.) My biggest concern is that they learn the material so I do everything in my power to make sure they know the math so that grades are secondary to understanding and learning. If your child was in my math classes last year then you may remember that we took a few days to have some fun with math and see how it applies to engineering. If you look at my profile picture on this page, you'll see a peek at me in an Orion space capsule simulator from when I was at Educator Space Camp in 2015 in Huntsville, AL. When I got home after that summer, I wanted to bring some of my learning and experiences home to my students. I wrote a grant for materials and found activities that would allow my students to experience more problem solving and collaboration through designing and building. We will be doing four challenges again this year in each class. In fact, homeroom students in 3rd, 4th, and 5th grades will all be doing the challenges with us too. Click here or on the letter on the left to read more details. I need your help too! You should have received a Sign-up Genius email asking for parent volunteers. You don't need to know anything about engineering. Your job will be helping "sell" supplies and simply supervise the fun with me. Our first challenge will be in October on the 20 & 21st. We will do ones in December, February, and May too if you can't help this time. Math families make sure that you are watching for the Home School Connection letters that your child will bring home this year. This will give you a glimpse at what our current math topic is in class. I always joke with the kids when I hand them out that these are your parents' homework. It does have a family activity that is optional so you do have a little homework to do with your child if you choose. Those letters do not need to be sent back to school. One more possibly useful family tool that our new math curriculum provides is the Bounce Pages app that can be downloaded on phones or tablets. Once you download the app, it will use your camera when you point it at your child's homework page. It will then automatically connect to "Another Look" videos that can possibly help your child remember what we learned that day in order to help them with their homework.
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Tim
10/18/2016 10:32:32 am
Awesome!!!
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