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'.