Monday, January 7, 2008

Happy New Year

Hope this year finds you healthy and happy. Here are some updates:

End of Q2 is February 1st.
In advising this week:
1) we will start book groups (which were assigned before break).
2) writing workshop will continue and I will be working on getting a writing sample from every one of my students
3) testing preparations begin
4) current events discussions will begin each day
5) PLP work will deepen and continue toward an end of the quarter presentation

ALL classes have due dates for material coming up soon e.g. drama has lines due at the end of the month, philosophy class has projects beginning this week and journals on-going, musicianship has a collaborative piece to present and a fund-raising performance to prepare for in the first week of February.

LOTS going on!!

If you did not get a conference and feel that you would like one, I can still meet during the day on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 10:45. More soon!

SPECIAL THANKS to my advising class, Valerie and John, Jim Bernard and all who helped this year. The drum set is awesome and I hope to see the classes, the school, the kids and whole community grow in friendship like the middle school has this year. Thanks again,

Kirk