It has been a busy week of instruction and I haven't felt like I had time to breath let alone type a blog. Things are going well so far so many student's made excellent progress on their Earth's History Calendar. Those scores are in the gradebook now for a couple of classes and I am still working working on getting the other two classes entered. Parents and Students are reminded that you can re-take or make up any assignment you want to within a reasonable time frame. My focus is on you learning the concepts so if it takes a couple of extra days to get it then that's great!
We are going to finish up our Ancient History Timeline today and the test on that will likely be next Friday. You will be starting to see the pre-test in the gradebook but none of the students knew any of the dates so they all got 0's. Please remember that these pre-tests don't count towards their grade they are just a tool to show growth. I full expect that next week when the test counts they will have learned a lot of material. Also, today we are going to start doing Mindfulness of breath. This technique is a great anchor for students who are needing to create some space between their stimulus and their response. I am enjoying the new the Apple Watch app called Breath which is fantastic for this practice. Let me know if you have any questions.
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