Hello Parents,
I hope everyone had a good weekend. I am looking forward to the student led conferences that begin this week (Weds, Thurs, and next Tuesday). For me, students had to complete their final drafts of their "porfolio reflections" this past Friday. Checking today, there were still several students who had not completed them. Please check with your son or daughter or you can email me if you have questions.
We have a special treat to build on our immigration unit. Joe Smith arranged to have guests speakers who will visit our classrooms tomorrow. These speakers were refugees who have settled in the Burlington area. Today we have been preparing with background information on their countries of origin and creating appropriate questions to ask.
We will continue with the immigration unit through the week. Students have been investigating potential "push factors", or reasons why people leave their countries. We are using CIA World Factbook for our data gathering. The focus is on Mexico and other Central American countries. This coincides with the book they are reading in Mr. Badeau's class, Crossing the Wire.
Homework this week:
Monday - finish the Data sheet for the Guest Speaker presentations
Tuesday - finish the Data Sheet "Exploring Potential Push Factors"
Friday - QUIZ Vocabulary from "Immigration, part II" worksheet
Lastly......I had one parent email me to say she could not see the grades with PowerSchool. Are there other parents that cannot view them? Let me know as we are trying to figure out why they are not showing. Thanks.
Have a great week.
Mr. Burton
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