We have embarked on one of the fastest moving tracks in the schedule for this year. These four weeks before break are jam packed with engaging activities and work that will expand your scholar's horizons and excite their abilities to perform, stretch and grow.
Most scholars are done writing their 8 minute speech and simply working on the memorization at this point. We are also writing congress bills, and short three minute speeches for our Republican/Democrat convention on next Thursday the first and then our debate on the the following Monday, with the election on Tuesday morning. Scholars are learning that they can multitask which allows them to memorize more than one piece of work at a time. Spending shorter amounts of time on each task, and setting small goals seems to work best with preteens learning to time manage. They will be proud of their accomplishments by the end of this month and parents will be too!
Book Reports are due tomorrow. These are written reports and the scholars have had their outline sheets for over two weeks. They know what is to be included in each paragraph. They will hand them in first thing in the morning.
We will take our Odyssey final test tomorrow also. We finished the book today and the students need to take their assessment while the entire story is fresh in their minds.
The Novel Team is up and running and those students know that they are responsible to cover and procure the material that we tackle in the first half hour of the day. They are fairly responsible young people and I believe they will handle this quite well. They completed lesson one today and will move on tomorrow morning.
The Math Counts Team will begin practices tomorrow. They will spend an hour with Coach Hassell from 1:00 to 2:00 on Thursdays. They will get the makeup work from me for whatever they miss on that day. They will also have an hour with Coach on Friday mornings from 10:00 to 11:00. They will not have extra homework in math, they will simply need to catch up in their reading work.
We will also be working on team problems during one recess a week, and after Thanksgiving Break we will start a practice after school one day a week. This should be plenty of time for our Math Counts Team to become sharp.
Friday we are heading to Maeser Prep for a Congress Tournament. If your scholar is in the Grandiloquent Guardians Forensics Team and is planning on attending, I need to know FOR SURE tomorrow at club. I will see how many drivers we have and then plan accordingly. If we stay for a two hour congress house, we should be back to school even earlier, maybe by 9:00.
If your scholar wants to order a school shirt with the GGFT name on the back, (they can wear these to school as soon as they have competed in their first event) then they can order tomorrow from Mr. Pope. Order forms went home last week.
Friday is the end of the term. Any student with missing work will not get their report card at Parent Conference until they hand the work in. If you have not signed up for your conference, please do so ASAP.
Onward and Upward!
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