Askeland's Adventures - 1/27/2017

Good afternoon! Since conferences are coming up, I just want to communicate that you can please contact me if you would like to set up an individual conference. For students in my DEB classes, I will plan on sitting in with their classroom teacher's conferences unless you would like to schedule a separate conference. For math families, please contact me if you'd like me to join the classroom teacher's conference or if you'd like to set up a separate time (before or after teacher conferences) to discuss math. 

Here's what we worked on this week:

3/4 DEB - We wrote a story board and made a rubric for our "Diary of a ..." story, and we also switched seats. - Carly and Jason

5/6 DEB - This week in DEB, we made flyers for class contests and started to briefly research landmark cases that we might be interested to present. - Amneet

5th Grade Advanced Math - This week we took our pretest, learned about positive and negative numbers, absolute value, coordinate, and different types of numbers in the Real Number System. - Baraka

6th Grade Advanced Math - In 6th grade math, we started our unit on Ratios and Proportions. We learned about the concept of proportionality. We also learned about rate and unit rate. Finally, we learned how to properly say a ratio. - Dan

Notes:

• Special congratulations to Amneet and Levin, who did a wonderful job at the District Spelling Bee last night! They spent so much time practicing and really represented Meadowview well!

• Parents of math students should have received their students' Unit 2 Assessments in a manila envelope this week. Please look over the information and let me know if you have questions. As always, we learned on an accelerated and advanced schedule, so sometimes student scores take some time to adjust to the more challenging pace. Thank you to those of you who have already signed and returned the envelopes!

• In 6th grade math, I am going to be assigning more daily and weekly work. In order to be prepared for the upcoming tests, which will be 6th grade standards, I am assigning TenMarks review assignments. They are short, 5 problem assignments that students have one week to finish. I will also be assigning more daily homework of concepts from class. This is due to the fact that the rest of the year, we will be covering entirely new concepts to all students. If you have questions or concerns, contact me.