http://www.stlblog.org/msiriani/ en Copyright 2010 Sat, 28 Aug 2010 11:02:51 -0600 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss What a great start to the new year we have had. We had a busy week getting to know each other. I have given the class a number of surveys to find out how they learn best and in what areas they excel. As I told the class, everyone one is smart, but people are smart in different ways. I am hoping to play on the strengths of each of them during the course of the year. I will be teaching reading in flexible (changing for each story) groups and will use their responses to group them. In Science we have started a unit on Life Science. This Chapter is about the basic structure of living things and how they are clasified. There is a short quiz after each lesson that will count as a grade. The first is Monday. There is a vocabulary guide and a study guide for each chapter. I have already passed them out. I am looking forward to a wonderful year. http://www.stlblog.org/msiriani/2010/08/new_school_year_1.html http://www.stlblog.org/msiriani/2010/08/new_school_year_1.html General Information Sat, 28 Aug 2010 11:02:51 -0600