Revisions

Revisions Are Vital to Mastery!

Students in our class are able to complete "revisions" of tasks to insure that concepts that were missed are cleared up or at least made more clear. Students do have to prove that they understand why they were wrong, and they have to show new work that proves that they really have reached an understanding of the concept.

In the top photo, the student explains what went wrong in the problem in the bottom photo. In this case there was a fairly major misconception about the formula used to compute the amount of money to subtract ($1,000 X the date or $25,000) from the original balance ($712,000). This misconception made the problem impossible for the student to solve. However, it would not be correct to assume that the student in question did not know how to subtract. Therefore, this thorough revision provides equitable remediation. Revisions are hard work, but they are well worth the effort!

Originally posted by Mr. Ruark. Thank you Dr. Ruark.

DCPS Academic Looking Glass

The DCPS Academic Looking Glass is a newsletter that is produced bi-weekly to assist parents, principals, teachers, and district staff as a quick reference guide about what students are learning during a sliding two week window.

The Looking Glass (including all back issues) can be found on the DCPS website (www.duvalschools.org) in the following places:

Clicking on the Riverdeep/Curriculum icon listed under the QuickLinks section

Clicking on the “Help Your Kid” menu link on the “Parents” section dropdown list

Selecting “Know what my child is learning?” in the “How Do I…” section dropdown list

OnCourse Grade Book

A note from our principal:

Grade Book Portal
Parents will receive their log ins at the end of the 1st nine weeks and the portal will be available for them to view grades beginning the 2dn grading period.

Flu Like Symptons

Parents please be aware of flu like symptoms and keep your children home if they are sick. Students should only return to school after 24 hours fever free with no fever reducing medications. About 98% of all flu right now is in fact to be considered H1N1 (Swine Flu). Prevention through hand washing, proper etiquette for sneezing and coughing and staying home when sick is important. Please notify me if your child has a confirmed case – it can now be confirmed just through a doctor’s diagnosis. We are doing extra cleaning of common areas and special cleaning of classrooms. The good news: the virus can only live on surfaces for 2 hours. Stay healthy!!

Dear Anonymous

Dear Anonymous,

I would very much like to know what you have to say, but please let me know who you are when you leave a comment. I read all comments and I rethink, revise and revisit my posts/entries.

YOU are very important to me so let me know who you are.

Thank you for your consideration,
Mrs. Rabe

Scholastic Book Orders

You can now place your Scholastic Book Club orders online!

Browse all the great monthly Club selections at low prices and order online. Plus, we earn a FREE book every time a parent orders online.

Here's how it works:

1. Use the information below to access the Scholastic Book Clubs Web site.
2. Browse the titles with your child, and place your order with your credit card.
3. Your order will come to Ms. Beaudreau, and your credit card payment will go directly to Scholastic's secure server. There's no need to send money to school.
4. After the entire class's order is submitted to Scholastic, your order will be delivered to Ms. Beaudreau's classroom for your child to take home.

www.scholastic.com/bookclubs

Class User Name: chetscreek5th

Password: readers

Ordering online is the most convenient way to use Scholastic Book Clubs. You can order anytime, right up until the online order due date. You'll also get instant access to over 500 additional titles plus online-only specials and discounts.

And don't forget: Every time a parent places an order online, Ms. Beaudreau earns a FREE book for their classroom library!

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact Ms. Beaudreau.

Can You Hear the Music??

Are you learning the words to our school song? During our last flag raising, our principal challenged everyone to learn the words to the song we dismiss to every afternoon. It was written by the first music teacher at Chets Creek, Mr. Joe Bernat. Can you meet the challenge?

Here are the lyrics:

The Chets Creek School Song

We love our school caled Chets Creek,

Where we are free to dream.

Our teachers, they will guide us,

and help us to achieve.

With values we can live by–

the heights that we shall seek…

We’ll prepare for our future

at our school we call Chets Creek.

Chets Creek!

Counting Patterns

The recent student sheets from our Math Investigation Unit, Building on Numbers You Know, that we have been working on in class are designed to stimulate thinking about counting patterns. Often, students fall back on methods of solving these questions that are far from efficient. For example, a student might simply list all of the multiples of 25 in order to get to 300 and then state, after counting the written numbers, that it takes 12 people counting by 25 to get to 300. However, many students quickly latch onto the idea that it is much easier just to figure out how many 25s are in 100 and then triple the amount to get to 300.

On the "What's in Between" page, students have to sort through a multitude of important concepts in order to find the answers to these puzzles. See if you can find the puzzle with answers that are not quite correct.

Presidential Address to School Children

Presidential Address to School Children

The president will deliver a message to school children on Tuesday, September 8th at noon. This will broadcast on C-Span.
Sometime on Monday, Labor Day, the videotaped message will be uploaded to the following link for your viewing.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/mediaresources/
A letter was sent home on Friday, for families wishing to “opt out” of the viewing for their children. Please go ahead and complete the form if you would like to opt out as we may watch the address at a future date.