Mr. Blanc's Class

It was odd telling the students to have a nice weekend today. I felt like I hardly saw them this week! Students will have reading logs due when they return on Monday, 11/17. I will be at a conference that day, so there will be a substitute. Since I will be gone on Monday, the spelling test over the days of the week and months of the year will take place on Tuesday, when I return. There is no spelling packet to turn in.  The students received their scores from the biography presentations. Check in with your child and see how they did. There are a few students who have not yet given their biography presentation. They will give their presentation on Tuesday, 11/18. In math we have been working on our multiplication and division fluency. We spend the first 5 minutes of class practicing our fluency. So far we have covered multiplying by 0's, 1's, 2's, 5's, and 10's. Next week we will focus on multiplying by 3's. Moby Max is a great resource for students to practi...

There will be no school on Monday, 11/10 or Tuesday, 11/11 of next week. Because of this reading logs and spelling packets will be due on our first day of the week, Wednesday, 11/12. In addition, students will be giving their biography book presentations that Wednesday as well. Last week in math we finished up Module 2. Each student was sent home with their scored Module 2 assessment on Wednesday. On Monday, we will be on lesson 4 of Module 3. This Module will be heavy on multiplication and division. One of the best ways you can support your child in this module is to help them with their multiplication and division fact fluency. There is a fact fluency component on the Moby Max website that I encourage you to have your student use www.mobymax.com/or1248. Spelling will be a little different next week. On Friday, 11/7 we took a pretest on the months of the year and days of the week. Any student who missed more than one of the words on the pretest will be sent home with a list to stu...

It was great to get a chance to sit down and talk with everyone at conferences! It's nice to have the chance to acknowledge the accomplishments of each student and discuss the areas where there is room for growth. This week in math we will be starting with lesson 5 from module 2. Here is a very useful link that can assist parents who are helping their kids with the Engage NY homework. http://www.oakdale.k12.ca.us/cms/page_view?d=x&piid=&vpid=1402228861002 . If you click on module 2, you will then be taken to a page that has all 5 of the lessons from the module. There you can find short videos that show problems from the homework being completed. Module 2 only has 5 lessons, so we will take the end of module assessment on Tuesday. Depending on how we do on the assessment, we will either begin module 3 on Wednesday, or review some of the concepts from Module 2. Look for the scored tests to be coming home this week. The genre study of biographies is off to a good start. Al...

Next week will be a short week, because of conferences. They will take place on Wednesday, 10/29 after school and all day Thursday, 10/30. Please check this link and make sure you know when you are scheduled to conference with me  http://www.ptcfast.com/schools/West_Tualatin_View_Elementary . Please bring your child with you to conferences. On Monday, 10/27 students will have spelling packets and reading logs due. They will also be tested on their spelling words. In addition, the students will get their spelling packets that will be due the following Monday on 11/3. Even though there is only three days of school next week students will be expected to complete the four reading log summaries and turn those in as well on Monday, 11/3.  On Monday, 10/27 the students will begin reading their biography books. Last week the students were sent home with an outline of the assignment as well as the rubric that their presentation will be scored with. I do need to make ...

The Halloween party was a blast! There was a candy walk, photo booth, a science experiment, bobbing for apples, and guessing how many pieces of candy were in a jar. Enjoy the pictures!

Today the students painted the monsters that they built yesterday. They are all excited to see how their creations come out of the kiln!