Open House e-edition!

Instead of sending you home with extra paper, this year we're directing you to our webpages via this blog.  You can find the information you need here, probably quicker than you can dig through the pile of paper on your dining room table.  We've had over 35,000 visitors since we started using this special space to share information.

We sent home a letter on the first day of school, and we're hoping you've already seen it.  Lavender?  A half sheet?  The eighth plan all their lessons together and so the letter looks mostly the same for each of us.  The only differences in the letters are the biographical information about each teacher and the contact information for each teacher.

Here's Mrs. Jackson's letter:

Literary Techniques Exit Slip-- "The Pedestrian"

Students have been using the jigsaw classroom technique to become experts on three literary techniques (in an "expert" group) and then teach those techniques in the "home" group.  We found the techniques in the story "The Pedestrian" by Ray Bradbury.  By the end of the lesson, students mastered twelve techniques.  We'll complete an Exit Slip (10 points) to make sure they learned them.  The Exit Slip will be on September 14th and 15th (a and b day).