Welcome to Mr. Dexter's
Upcoming Events:
Report cards will be going home within the next week or so. Your child may be coming home with a note from me regarding their grades. Please make sure you sign that letter and return it to me this week sometime. Also, I have decided to "tweak" my homework policy a bit. I am sending a letter home to everyone with more explanation on this as well. Please check your child's grade sheet on at least a weekly basis. If you have any concerns, please feel free to contact me anytime!
Math News-
Students continue to work with fractions. We are finishing up chapter 4 which deals with improper fractions/mixed numbers, adding and subtracting like fractions, and multiplying fractions by whole numbers. We'll soon be moving into more involved fraction operations where students will be having to deal with unlike fractions and algebra.
Parents:
Please remind your child that, even as we finish a concept, they should not forget it. As I continue to tell the students, math is a process and everything we do will somehow connect with something we already did. Reviewing notes during homework time would be a great tool to remember what was done in class!
Other information to be aware of:
**Many students in 6th grade still do not know their multiplication facts!! Please spend some time each night (at least 10 minutes) helping them practice. Everything we do this year stems in some way from multiplication and if they are struggling with their facts, they will fall behind. Also, again, please make sure your child is reviewing notes taken each day. The more time they study their notes, the less they will have to cram before a test!!
Please feel free to contact me at school anytime you have a question or a concern! I am here to help and look forward to doing so in any way I can! The student planner is also a great way to communicate. Please check this every day for any notes that our team might have written in there. This is where students are supposed to write their homework down as well.
I have started tutoring on Thursdays every week. If you are interested in your child staying after school, please make arrangements with your child sometime before they go to school so that they don't have to call and ask/make sure you know they are staying. Tutoring ends at 4:20 each Thursday. If, for some reason, I need to cancel tutoring some week, I will try to give as much notice ahead of time as possible! Please note: Tutoring is cancelled Thursday, February 4th.
Another note: In middle school, we have a telephone system called homework hotline. Students and parents can call this to check homework assignments if absences occur, an assignment was not written down, etc. The telephone number to the hotline is in the front of your child's student planner.
Thanks in advance for your support!!
I will be working on this page on at least a monthly basis. Please keep checking for new stuff! Thanks!! --Mr. Dexter
What a terrible ending to a disappointing season....Hoping for better things next season!!
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