Google Classroom Updates

Many if not all of you should have received your email to join the google classroom updates. It will be a useful tool in keeping updated on what your student is doing in class and if they are missing work. A couple of things to remember when checking the google classroom updates.


1. If it says it's not done that means your student didn't click the button to turn it in. I may have graded it, or given them credit. For instance on a quiz, I get the scores on the "google form" that they complete, but they don't have to click done or turn it in for them to get their scores. Many students get their score and assume you will also know they completed it. This was the main concern today as many parents got a reminder that their students did not complete the chapter 1 quiz, but actually the student never marked the quiz done on the classroom.

2. Not all scores will be entered on google classroom. Most homework assignment the grades are entered as Did the assignment or didn't do the assignment. If it wasn't turned in it will be a 0 on infinite  campus or a missing. For papers, projects, and tests I will usually enter those scores on Google Classroom before they are entered on IC.

3. The due dates aren't always accurate. This hasn't been an issues yet this year but sometimes I will assign something and it will take significantly longer than I expected. If that's the case your student may appear to have a missing assignment or a late assignment when I just haven't updated the due date.

This is my first year using the guardian updates so please bear with me. I am excited for another way to keep you in the loop about your child's class.


Classes

Government:  In government students are learning about The effect of the early colonial governments and the British government had on the founding of the Constitution. There will be a quiz on Thursday. Homework:  Students should be completing their vocab On Tuesday night.

History:  Students will be learning about the beginning years of the Republic and the lead up to the Civil War. Homework: Students may need to retake their quiz if they do not like their score. The quiz is on Tuesday.

Second Week

History
In history students will be working on notetaking skills and study strategies. They took the Quiz for Chapter 1 on Monday. All students will be permitted to retake their quiz on their own time. All retakes must be completed before they take the Chapter 2 quiz though which will either be next Thursday or Monday. The only homework may be Vocabulary if we fall behind in class. Students are studying the beginning of the US as a nation.

Government
Students can retake their Lesson 1 quiz on their own time. They have until the next quiz which will be this Thursday. Students are studying the philosophy of our government and what we learned from the governments around us at the time of the writing of the Constitution. They have vocabulary homework tonight and Wednesday night.

First Week of School stuff!!

I'm so excited to have everyone back! I'm going to work extremely hard to update my blog every Monday.

General information
All students have a binder, a blue form and a green form that need to be signed. Please bring all of those forms as well as all forms in the binder to back to school night on Thursday night.

All students for my class are receiving a student teacher contract that outlines their and my responsibilities in my class. This isn't due until Monday of next week.

History
Students this week will be learning about the precolonial and colonial history of the US and what lead to the conflicts that lead to the Revolution. The only homework they may have is studying for their first quiz on Thursday.

Government
Students will be studying the original concepts of Government. They will have vocab homework at least Monday night, possible Monday and Wednesday. They will also have a Quiz, quizzes are Thursday every week.

Back to School

I am extremely excited to get back to school this year. Thank you again for allowing me to teach your students.

For those that don't know me I will be doing my entire class on Google Classroom. Because of this sometimes I forget to update my blog because everything from Questions of the day to the tests and assignments are on the google classroom. I will update my blog much much more often this year.

as always I am easy to contact. Any questions or concern please email me at wmartin@oasisacademyfallon.us.

Summer reading was and is still completely voluntary and was for a quarter 1 extra credit assignment.

If your student is We The People tell them to email me and I will send them the Google Classroom sign up. The groups have been made and they currently have been assigned their units for the competition.

I have a question for parents. What concepts and ideas do you want to make sure your students learn in Social Studies this year? What ideas should we focus on the most? I will do everything in my power to make sure students learn all of the standards this year just like last year. Thank you so much for a great year last year and for a better year to come.