Waldman's Class Post (8/31-9/4, 2009):

[REMEMBER… SAVE EVERYTHING!!!]

~ BEST WAY TO CONTACT ME… seth.waldman@bvsd.org

Co-op:


• Co—op days:

- Monday – read aloud --Three Cups of Tea (Young Readers’ Edition) by Greg Mortenson

- Tuesday – Portfolio work day

- Wednesday – CHOICE Weekly news and events (parents should be receiving ‘CHOICE Weekly’ emails – if not, you can sign-up on line); catch-up time

- Thursday – ‘Council’ in certain weeks

- Friday – fun day – free, or organized

• The ‘Goals Setting Process’ began on Tuesday - students are in the process of designing 3 goals - 2 academic and 1 personal; each student is working in a team to provide positive support, feedback and analysis; the goals should be ‘student designed’ but family discussions are highly encouraged.

- Important dates:

9/2 – Fall Trip forms go home – PLEASE COMPLETE IMMEDIATELY

9/3 – New Parent Info Night 6-730p -- highly recommended!!!

9/8 – BTSN 6-730p

9/17 – ADI #1 (sci/soc. Sci. classes – see your child’s teacher’s post for more info)

9/24-25 – Student-lead Goal-setting conferences / Fall Trip Forms DUE

9/30-10/2 – Fall Trip

LA (Blk. 1/2):

• 8/31 M – HW: write a paragraph based on your spider graph

• 9/1 T – HW: 1 more bubble graph and paragraph

• 9/3 W – HW: Bubble graph/paragraph #3

• 9/3 T – Bring book for silent reading on Fri.

~ ALL CHOICE Students are required to meet or exceed the CHOICE Reading Requirement - :30/day@5 days/wk. – students should read books at their ability level or challenge themselves and must read in multiple genres.

Underdog! (Blk. 3):

[social science – U.S. history & society]

• 8/31 M – HW: Notebook and signed Expectations (see link below) handout DUE Wed.

Important Dates:

• 9/16 Begin Unit Thesis

• 9/17 ADI #1

• 9/23 Unit Thesis note-card √ #1

• 10/5 Unit Thesis note-card √ #2

• 10/13 Formal Outline DUE

• 10/14 ADI #2

• 10/22 Unit Thesis Rough draft DUE

• 11/5 Unit Thesis Final draft DUE

• 11/6 ADI #3

• 11/19-20 POLs

Expectations.doc