Miss Brown's Bulletin
Week of September 21-25
Compass Goals
Compass Learning Odyssey is a tool we use at Cartmell to help students grow as learners. While they have a variety of subjects to choose from, our focus is Language Arts and Math. The students will use this tool throughout the day to practice skills learned in the classroom, or skills they have yet to master. Beginning the 2nd 9 weeks, students will have goals and will be expected to complete a set amount of lessons in each subject area per week.
This week we made sure all of the kinks were worked out, and now that everyone has access to the program and has had the chance to use it, we will begin tracking lesson completion and have a "practice round" for meeting goals. We will use this week and the remaining weeks of this 9 week period. Be looking for your child's report in Monday folders this week. I will go over how to read them with the kiddos, but if you have any other questions feel free to contact me.
This week we made sure all of the kinks were worked out, and now that everyone has access to the program and has had the chance to use it, we will begin tracking lesson completion and have a "practice round" for meeting goals. We will use this week and the remaining weeks of this 9 week period. Be looking for your child's report in Monday folders this week. I will go over how to read them with the kiddos, but if you have any other questions feel free to contact me.
4H
Throughout the year, Ms. Doyle (from the district 4H office) will be visiting our classroom and doing lessons with the children on a variety of topics. She will be visiting us for the first time on Tuesday afternoon. Be sure to ask your kiddo about this experience!
Literacy Luau
Come join us on Monday, September 28 from 6-7:30 p.m. for a literacy luau! Come dressed in your Hawaiian best and ready to enjoy fun games, literacy activities, and yummy food. There will also be opportunities for parents to learn more about our new standards based grading system, tour the building, and you could even win a door prize! We hope to see you there.
Art Reach
The Children's Theater out of Cincinnati, OH, also known as Art Reach, attends Cartmell throughout the year to perform educational and entertaining plays for the children. They will be here on Monday afternoon to perform for us. Be sure to ask your kiddo about the play!
Math Fun! Using Stategies to solve division problems
Parker & Jack
These boys are using skip counting to solve their division sentences.
Elle & Wynter
The girls are using arrays/count by's to solve the equations on their problem set.
Brandon
Brandon uses the array to solve a division equation.
News Democrat Party
I mentioned last week that we had earned a pizza party for being featured in Carroll County Kids. We will be having our party on Friday afternoon.
We are learning to...
Reading
In Reading we will continue our study of comparing and contrasting two texts written by the same author. We should wrap up the unit by the end of the week and assess.
Math
In Math we are continuing to study multiplication and division. Students will practice creating tape diagrams to represent a word problem, and also the commutative property of multiplication (which was introduced a few weeks ago).