*Preparing for Success

All Scott-Foresman Reading Street selection and benchmark tests are taken online on Wednesday. A print-out of your student's grades and questions missed will be on that print-out which will be included in their Weekly Folders that come home each Monday.

Students will also need to read nightly. They may chose any form of media for this regular assignment: magazines, articles/blogs online, Sunday school lessons, novels, graphic novels, textbooks....anything with print. The students will be blogging this year. The students will set the criteria for the blogs which I will post once it's created. At least one of their blog post must be about what they are reading in order for them to meet the standard for independent reading. I will check blog posts every Wednesday.

Blogging expectations:

1. Use proper capitalization, organization, punctuation, and spelling.
2. Be safe with all of your choices.
3. Create posts that show what we've learned.
4. Always use appropriate and kind words.
5. Think about the audience.
6. Explain and give great details in your posts.
7. Compose three or more blog posts a week. 
8. At least one of your blog posts will be about what you are reading. 
9. Create comments that are thoughtful, relevant, and continue the conversation.
10. Practice using characteristics of great writing in every post.

We will also be involved in a very exciting, ongoing technology project.  We will be creating a student-directed and created online journal called The Coast to Coast Chronicles. This project is created collaboratively with over 300 students in grades 3-7 from seven different states. Students apply their content area knowledge through this project. All of our communication is with tools such as wikispaces, Skype, and Moodle.  Check out our journal here:  The Coast to Coast Chronicles. The writing and projects are graded according to the rubrics that the students create for each activity. 

*Grading Scales

Below is the Jefferson County district-wide grading scale. 

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