Week 18 - Jan 30

Students will complete any unfinished STAR reading assessments.

Third through sixth grade students will do the SBAC practice test, either in the classroom or in the lab. This is helping the District test out the network capacity and familiarizing students with the format.

SBAC practice tests can be found here: caaspp.org

Ms. Link's class will finish illustrating their winter poems.

Week 17 - Jan 23

All classes will be completing the STAR reading assessments this week.

Week 16 - Jan 16

Kindergarten classes come to the lab this week. They will do the STAR early phonics assessment.

Ms. Cason's class will do reading activities in Starfall.
Mrs. Link's class will finish typing their winter poems and start their illustrations.
Mr. Baum's class will work on their vocabulary sentences and their country powerpoints.
Ms. Nichols' class will do fraction activities in Harcourt Math.

1. Bowling for Fractions

2. Fraction Race
3. Sheppard Math: Fractions

Mr. Aiken's and Ms. Gray's classes will do an internet scavenger hunt about presidential inaugurations.
Ms. Nel's class will do math practice in Harcourt.
Ms. Billings',  Ms. Hilton's, and Ms. Koenig's classes will do punctuation edits in Sentence Surgeon.

Ms. Malone's, Ms. Ruff's, and Mrs. McKnight's classes will start the STAR reading assessments.

week 15 - Jan 9

Ms. Hilton's and Ms. Billings' classes will learn about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

National Geographic: Martin Luther King, Jr.

Ms. Link's class will start their winter poems.

Ms. Cason's and Ms. Nels' classes will do phonics activities in Starfall.

All third through sixth grade classes will do the BrightBytes tech survey.

Week 14 - Jan 3

Happy New Year!

Kindergarten classes come to the lab this week. They will read stories in Starfall with the short A sound.

Ms. Cason's class will do phonics activities in Starfall.
Ms. Link's class will do practice capitalization and punctuation in Sentence Surgeon.
Ms. Hilton's and Ms. Billng's classes will practice regrouping in AAAMath.
Mrs. McKnight's class will study landforms.

Mr. Baum's class will do word processing with their vocabulary words.
Mr. O'Connors' class will work on their health project.
Ms. Malone's and Ms. Tobin's classes will work on their writing projects.

Week 13 - Dec 12

Kindergarteners will come to the lab and do phonics activities in Starfall.


Ms. Hilton's and Ms. Billings' classes will learn about Penguins on these sites:
NatGeo:  Emperor Penguins
KidZone: Penguins

Ms. Cason's class will do phonics activities in Starfall.
Mrs. Link's class will practice math facts in FunBrain Math Baseball and Tic Tac Toe.

Upper grade classes will practice typing and will finish all uncompleted work.
Mrs. Gray's class will do a winter web quest on her blog.
Mr. O'Connor's class will do a Winter Web Quest

Week 12 - Dec 5

This week is Hour of Code! Many of the 4th through 6th grade classes will be participating. Note: All year long, all students always can go to the Hour of Code site when they have finished their work.

Hour of Code

Ms. Link's class will do math word problems.

Ms. Cason's and Ms. Nels' classes will do phonics activities in Starfall.
Third grade classes will do keyboard practice.

Ms. Gray's, Mr O'Connor's, and Ms. Koenig's classes will complete their current writing assignments and then do Hour of Code.