I hope to see everyone for Back to School Night at 7:00!

Math: If you did not have chance to read my cover letter attached to last week's quiz please take sometime to do this prior to Friday's quiz. It essentially ran down the ways we use the quizzes and formative assessments to monitor the effectiveness of our instruction. I also attached the Grade 4 math grading policy since MCPS hasn't gotten the 4th grade math content up and running in the standards-based system yet...in a nutshell, I decided to equally weight each task since standards-based has no weights. Not perfect but a movement forward...

Homework: Complete pages 79A and B, #s 1-5 on each page. A calculator has been provided to assist with the larger numbers - the key is do they understand how to solve the problem?

Language Arts: We have had a couple responses in our RRJs with respect to making connections and character traits. While they have been working with these reading responses, I have slowly assessed 2/3 of the class in reading to provide me a clear instructional picture going forward.

In addition to the readings, we took a memory walk this afternoon to generate some writing topics over the next few weeks.