Sunday, March 24, 2019

Mr. Sassman's 6th Grade Class Blog

Woodriver Elementary School

Last week...

Mr. Sassman here. I am back in the captain's seat again as Mr. Ribbens has wrapped up his full-time student-teaching obligations for his studies at UAF. I must say that he did an excellent job and I hope the kids enjoyed the experience. Mr. Ribbens will be with us through the end of the school year.

The students completed their final round of MAP (Measure of Academic Progress) testing. I have the results and the growth from last year at this time has been great. I shared the news with the kids on Friday and told them how proud I am. Please give them some praise for all of their hard work this school year...and we still have eight weeks left for learning. One thing I would like to emphatically recommend is...please make sure your child is reading for 20 minutes at night and practicing their math for 20 minutes a day during summer break. If they do, it will make a huge difference in the fall when they enter seventh grade. I will give you more information and resources for summer work as we get closer to May.

Students interested in participating in the school-wide speech contest delivered some great speeches on Friday. The semi-finals will be this week and the finals will be Friday, April 5th, 2019 at 2 PM in the MPR. All kids in our class are required to give class speeches, but the contest is optional and extra credit for both reading and writing.    

This week...

Is a busy one. This is the last week of our read-a-thon class fundraiser. Please tally up the minutes, hours, or days that your student read and send in their donation by next Monday. Checks can be made out to Woodriver Elementary School and cash is okay too. If every student raises fifty dollars, we will have enough money for the rest of our field trips and activities for the remainder of the year. 

Tomorrow, the kids will have a nutrition lesson from a guest presenter from UAF. Tuesday, art specialists are in the house. Wednesday is our field trip to Ryan Middle School for orientation. HERE is a link to Ryan's Online Class Registration. Please check it out. Thursday is the regional science fair, which is being held at Pioneer Park. Students that placed first or second in our school science fair will attend and present their projects in the morning. Feel free to come with us, or pop by. We will be leaving Woodriver at 9:30 AM and return at 11:30 AM.

In addition to the many lessons and two field trips, we will begin our fourth quarter academic campaigns. We will pick back up on our Expository Books, Superhero Narratives,  and Literacy Circles book reports. I will wait to introduce any new initiatives until next week and Mr. Kinder will be facilitating our Kids2College program.

Report cards were finalized and printed last week. I will drop them in the outgoing mail tomorrow morning.

Lastly, Mrs. Brashear will deliver the sixth grade Human Growth and Development lesson this week. If you have any questions or concerns, please refer to Mrs. Brashear. A letter was also sent home last Tuesday about the lesson with information.     

Monday looks like:

9:00 - 9:20

10-Minute writing prompt: "Describe your perfect meal...what foods, beverages, and desserts would you have?"

Class Meeting

New Jobs

9:20 - 10:30

Topic 11 Review Part One

10:30 - 10:40

Break - Snack

10:40 - 12:00

Nutrition Lesson - UAF Guest Speaker

12:00 - 12:30

Eat

12:30 - 1:00

Play

1:00 - 1:40

Lit. Circles

1:45 - 2:15

P.E.

2:15 - 3:30

TDL

MATH HOMEWORK 

Tuesday, March 26, 2019
--Topc 11 Review
Wednesday, March 27, 2019

--Topic 11 Take Home Test
Thursday, March 28, 2019
--Practice 12-1
Friday, March 29, 2019
--Practice 12-2

Please regularly check your child’s grades in PowerSchool and update the Web and Technology Use forms. I would appreciate it if you gave permission for your child’s picture to be published on the class blog. The forms are located under the Registration section. Please refer to this link for details: https://www.k12northstar.org/Page/3162  

DATES TO REMEMBER (more to come)

Wednesday, March 27, 2019
Field Trip to Ryan Middle School for a tour of the school and be a part of an informational meeting. Again...HERE is the link to online registration.
9:30 AM - 11:30 AM

Thursday, March 28, 2019
Regional Science Fair at Pioneer Park - Only winning science fair projects/students will attend.
9:30 AM - 11:30 AM

Friday, April 12, 2019
Field Trip to UAF - Kids2College Program Visit

Thursday, May 9, 2019
Field Trip to Tanana Lakes - UAF Outdoor Day (6th graders only)

Friday, May 10, 2019
Lock-in at Woodriver (This is a rewards-based event, students with DRs will not be able to participate)

It's a good life!

--Mr. Sassman