September 29th

I'm going to try writing this before school today, as Friday's are generally pretty busy for me.

Thanks to everyone for coming out last night to Open House, it was great to meet so many of the parents. 

To those of you who were not able, sorry I missed you, but my door is always open.  Send me an email and we can arrange something.

Last night I put up an interview schedule for the conferences to take place after the Progress reports go home in November.  If you didn't get a chance to sign up, or want to change your times, please do. If none of those days work for you, send me an email and I'm sure we can arrange an alternate time.

Here is the link to the schedule:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1poQmlqIugsO5A2cC6jKfHhcbfWCftp9X7J0N2GCJocw/edit?usp=sharing

Lastly, thanks to the volunteers for helping out yesterday with yesterday's field trip!

OK...here is what is suppose to happen today!

Period 1- We'll have a circle, do read some of The Scarecrow Walks At Midnight (said in a creepy voice).  Next, some independent reading.

Period 2 we'll work on our readers writers workshop.  A quick mini lesson on how rearranging words in a sentence is a powerful revision technique.  Then we'll write (they're so awesome at this)

Period 3 we have the computers.  I'm going to give them some time to work on the 2 (and 3 for some) digit addition with assignments I've set up on math prodigy.  There might be a little time for some 'free time' (it's Friday after all) towards the end of the period.

Period 4 we have gym.

Period 5 and 6 Orchard Park is going to have it's first Panther Pack day.  We're going to mix the kids from all grades and both streams into groups and work on strengthening the community here at OP.