February 2010
Dear Parents/Guardians,
I hope this newsletter finds you enjoying a healthy and
happy new year. It is nice to see
more snow falling for our mountain enthusiasts!
We are halfway through trimester two already. Students have been busy learning,
playing basketball, and wrestling.
By the time you read this, you should have received your child's
progress report grades. Please ask
them to retrieve it from their backpack and share it with you. Read inside for more information about
our parent teacher conferences scheduled for Wednesday, February 3 and
Thursday, February 4.
I hope you find the following excerpt on homework
preparation from The Parent Institute, 2007 useful.
Teach
Your Student the SQ3R Method
Doing
homework every night is one of the most important things your student can do to
prepare to do well on tests. The
SQ3R (survey, question, read, restate and review) method is a great way to make
sure that time spent on homework is productive time. Here is how it works:
Survey. Have your student skim over a reading assignment to figure out what it is about. They can use headings, pictures and bold face type as clues.
Question. Next, have them list all the questions they have about the material. You might want to have them make a chart with the following headings - who, what, when, where, how and why. Then help them organize their questions.
Read. Now they should read the assignment carefully. As they read, have them answer the questions from their newly created list.
Restate.
Have them test themselves by describing in their
own words what they have just read.
You can help to identify and focus on the main points.
Review.
At the end of the study session, make sure they look
over the new material again.
Be on the lookout for the following events:
2/3
and 2/4
Parent/Teacher
Conferences
2/5
No
school
2/12
Valentines
Dance
2/18
PTSA
Meeting
Thank you all for what you do as parents every single
day. Please feel free to email me
at michael.hecker@bend.k12.or.us or call me at 383-6230 with any questions or
concerns.
As Oliver Wendell Holmes once said, "Man's mind stretched to
a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions."
Michael Hecker
