Katrina Smith

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Parents,

I want to take this opportunity to stress the importance of your child 
studying science nightly.  If your child studies their notes EVERY night, it 
will prevent them from cramming the night before a test.  Often we have too 
much information on a test to try to learn it over night.  Ask your child to 
teach the material to you or a sibling or even themselves in the mirror!  
Anything, as long as they are having to look at it.  Let them (or you) make 
up quizzes and take them.  See the science links page for websites with 
review games and quizzes.  I believe that this is the key to doing well in 
science.  Thank you for studying with your child nightly!
 
AR goals should be met weekly.  These goals are set up to give your child a 
way of keeping themselves in check on a weekly basis instead of trying to 
take AR tests at the very end of the 9 weeks to try to earn their points.  
AR does count as 1/5 of your child's reading grade.  Make sure they are 
reading 30 mintues nightly.  If you want to know how your child is doing in 
AR, you can look at their green AR folder which will tell you the percent 
that they made on each test.  It will also be in their yellow take home 
folder that comes home each Monday.  If you would like a more detailed 
report, let me know and I will be more than happy to print out a report that 
will tell you your child's percent correct, what percentage of their goal 
they have met, the grade they made on each test, and how many points they 
have earned.  Any time your child fails an AR test, I will send home the 
failed test report for you to sign and return.

Take home folders will go home every Monday.  This will inform you of any 
upcoming events, behavior issues, and AR goals.  There will also be a set of 
stapled papers in the folder.  These are tests/classwork from the previous 
week.  Please look through these papers with your child and discuss his or 
her grades.  It is important to keep these papers at home.  These can be used 
as excellent TCAP review material.

Thank you for wanting the best for your child!  I believe that is what we 
offer at Castle Heights!
Mrs. Smith

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