Parents,
I hope you were able to come to JLCP's High School Information Night to get info about some of our local high schools. But if you missed it, you also missed out on the first opportunity to utilize a great new tool for keeping up with your student's progress. The OnCourse Parent Portal is now up and running, and UserIDs and Passwords are available at the school. The Parent Portal allows you to log in at home and actually see your child's grades in all their classes. This can help you stay in the loop about which assignments are being turned in (and which ones are not) as well as how your student is performing in class. If you don't have your UserID and Password already, you must come to the school with a picture ID to receive it. Please do remember, however, that it can take a week or so for grades to be fully updated. I know that I'm behind myself right now, but I'm hoping to have everything input before Thanksgiving!
In other classroom news, the classroom spelling bees are underway. I hope to have all the top spellers competing in the 8th grade run-off on Monday. The top 5 spellers from that group will go on to compete in the schoolwide spelling bee in January.
We have finished our unit on mood, plot, and conflict, and we are working on polishing our writing skills using SEEPS (Statement, Example, Elaboration, Personal Tidbit, Sensory Details).
Next week (Monday & Tuesday) will be Amnesty Days. On Amnesty Days, I show students exactly what work they are missing in my class and give them the opportunity to make those assignments up. MANY students have low averages right now because they are simply failing to turn in their work. I am hoping these Amnesty Days will help those students catch up. For the students who have turned in everything, there will be time for reading, board games, and maybe even a few extra credit opportunities.
After all that, I think we'll all be ready for Thanksgiving! I hope everyone enjoys their 5-day weekend! After today's writing workshop (in which we used sensory details to describe Thanksgiving food), I can already taste the creamy, buttery goodness of my Aunt Donna's mashed potatoes and the moist, juicy slices of turkey covered in giblet gravy. Yum!
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!
Remember to check the Homework Calendar, and don't forget to post those Weekly Summaries on ClassChatter Live!
Miss McCoy
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