Happy New Year 2012

Welcome back! We're off to a cold start weather-wise but I know Neuse Charter is going to be hustling from now until the end of school.

January will be a busy month. There will be the 2nd EC Continuous Improvement Plan meeting on Tuesday, January 31st at 4:00. Please mark your calendar if you are on this committee. Thank you. We will discuss improvements we have made so far this year and any suggestions for the second semester. Indicators that have been completed will also be on the agenda and indicators that will be completed the second half of the year will be explained and discussed.

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is January 16th and it is a school holiday.

For my reading students, I am continuing with the Recipe for Reading program and have ordered more material to use with my students. I will be starting out with short assessments in phonics, fluency, and reading comprehension to keep track of their progress. With the use of our new computers in our classroom, students are able to type sentences and save them to their flash drives. We now have a printer set up in our classroom where students will be able to print out their work.

In math I have discovered a great website call www.mathplayground.com . Please visit this site if you have a chance as it is so organized with the teaching of basic skills and making it fun for our students. I will continue assessing students on their knowledge of multiplication and division facts and having them practice and memorize the facts they still don't know. Also I will be teaching them how to solve word problems.

Have a week of new discoveries!
Nancy Peele