New School Year 2010

Well, I've come to the end of a great first day of school!  Our 'Shamrock Bootcamp' went well and our students are prepared to be on the Shamrock Way all year.  I am excited to meet more students tomorrow and the rest of this week.  My advisory class is full of globally minded students that are ready to meet the challenge of this next school year.  They have set high goals for themselves, and I believe that they can reach them all!

Spring Update

Wow,   am I realizing that I am not used to the whole blogging "thing"!  It has been too long since an update has been written.

We just finished our spring Parent Teacher Conferences here at BSMS.  I really appreciated all the parents and family members that came in to talk with me.  Remember that I also am available by phone, email or notes.  Everyone is super busy these days, but please, contact me if you have any concerns or questions.

My students in Reading 7 are finishing Unit 5 in the Making Meaning program, which focuses on making inferences and finding cause and effect relationships.  We will be moving soon into a unit on making inferences in non-fiction text.

I am looking forward to this last marking period that starts after spring vacation. We will be working on many more reading strategies-- including summarizing and synthesizing, and discussing how we plan to continue reading over the summer. I know that our students have become more thoughtful and focused while they are reading and by making plans to read throughout the coming summer months, our students won't lose stamina to read longer text-- and become 'rusty readers'.