Thanks to my all my students who helped me prepare for my talk, Sharing Stories, Becoming Storytellers,  for the K12 Online Conference.   You can find a preview of the talk on my teacher blog, Educational Alchemy.

Thanks to everybody who came for their student involved conferences last week.  If you were unable to attend, please contact Mr. McGaughey to schedule another time.

We will be having a school assembly on Friday November 25 at 1:40pm.

This is the last full week  to work on your points project. Final due date is November 29.  Our December unit will be a novel study.  Over the course of this week, I will work with both my Junior and Intermediate groups to choose a novel, and determine which activities will help us to cover the expectations of the English and Arts curriculum for their grade.  We will begin the novel study on November 29.

Math this week:  We are continuing to work on our patterning unit.  Math tests for this unit will be around the end of November.

Mathbook pages  assigned:

This is just a reminder of your student involved conference times. Each appointment is 15 minutes long. This is your chance to show your parents how well you have been doing in school this year.

Mr. McGaughey
Student Involved Conference Schedule
Thursday November 17, 2011

4:00 Andrew
4:45 Jennifer
5:00 Tommy
5:30 Chase
6:30 Rowan
6:45 Collin
7:00 Trevor
7:15 Dustin

Math:  We are working on a patterning and algebra unit until the end of November.

Please finish up these math assignments by Monday.

Points Project:

We are nearing the end of our points project.  It has been great studying satire and parody using the Shrek movies with the Juniors, and examining the history of computers with the Intermediates.

The final day to hand in work for this p roject will be Tuesday November 29.  If you have not completed more than 150 points by now, you will  have to do alot of homework to catch up.

Next week, we will begin discussing and preparing for a novel study to begin on December 1.