March 22, 2010
March 22, 2010
Happy Spring!
First day of spring was last Saturday and last Friday was the last day of 3rd quarter, too. March has been a busy month with CSAPs. Last week we celebrated the end of CSAPs with a pizza party and jeopardy activities that the teachers participated. During the assembly last week, we had a visitor from England. He was an itinerant teacher for the Deaf. He shared his experiences and showed the studenst how to fingerspell using British alphabet. And the month isn’t over yet! We will have parent and teacher conferences this Wednesday. Hope to see you there.
Also, the middle school students are participating in the Optmist Club oral presentation competition. The local competition will be held at RMDS this Wednesday at 1 p.m. The topic for presentation this year is as follows: Cyber Communication: Progress or Problem? If you could come, come on over and watch our students present.
Finally, there is a student teacher from University of Northern Colorado in the middle school and his name is Craig Stalker. He will be working with Sara Lee in the mornings for 8 weeks until 1st week of May.
Sara Lee’s corner:
Both of my reading classes completed their books, took tests and presented their projects. Now both groups are working on pre-reading activities related to their new books: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry and Stone Fox.
In writing classes, we have been focused on descriptive writing. We learned about writing super sentences (adding more information to make our sentences more interesting). This week, our focus is on word choice (one of the 6 writing traits). We will work on synonyms in revelance to word choice.
In ASL, all the students have completed their power point presentations on their person who has contributed to the deaf history or community. We enjoyed learning something new about some people. Also, we have been working on our presentation for the optimist club competition.
UPCOMING EVENTS:
March 24th: Optimist Club competition at RMDS at 1 p.m.
March 24th: Parent/Teacher conference from 6 to 8 p.m.
March 26th: 3rd Quarter Honor Roll ceremony at 2 p.m.
March 29th: April 2nd: Spring Break
