Welcome to the classroom website of Miss Pennington! I am very excited to launch this site as another form of communication and partnership with families. In creating this, I hope to keep families better informed with weekly updates that allow you to peruse them at your leisure and reduce the amount of emails filling your inboxes. Hopefully, that is a win/win for all of you.

As always, if there is ever anything that I can help with, please email me.

pennington.tracey@battlegroundps.org

February 24

Happy Monday!
I am calling this week, "Wonder Week" because we finally get to watch the movie! On Thursday and Friday the kids will be taking the final assessment for the "Wonder" unit and you can support them this week by "quizzing" them about things that are the same and/or different from book to movie. This will help set them up for success on the assessment.
In other news, no Book Club meetings this week because of "Wonder Week" and current Book Club assignments are posted in Google Classroom.
Have a great week,Miss Pennington 

January 17, 2020

Hello Families,
I wanted to let you know about and adjustment that I made regarding book reports. With the start of Book Clubs for some of my classes and the winter break, I have decided to have only one book report due for December and January. So instead of turning in a book report for December and another for January, just one for both months. I meant to extend the due date to January 31st, in Skyward, before we did progress reports yesterday, but I wasn't quick enough. It has been changed and should no longer say "missing". 
 
Warm Regards,
Miss Pennington

January 4, 2020

Dear Families,

I am excited to start the new year with your kiddos and I hope that they are, as well.

I wanted to send you all a note to say that there is going to be a slight change to the grading of late assignments. In the past, we have allowed students to turn in missing assignments, not be penalized for the assignment being late and still be able to receive a full score.  Starting on Monday, all late assignments will lose 10% per week that they are late.  I have been too lenient and am finding myself grading assignments that are more than one term late; which means students are turning in assignments from as far back as September and are expecting full credit for it.
As per the sixth grade policy, no assignments will be accepted from previous terms; once a term has ended and the grades are submitted, those assignments are no longer viable.  Students are given much more than ample time--in my classroom--to finish assignments, but many are choosing to not use their time wisely, ignore directions and expectations and spend the bulk of class time trying to draw or play unapproved games on their Chromebooks.
Please know that all of this has no bearing on if your child is absent or if they are trying to improve a grade they previously received.  This is pertaining to assignments that are not turned in or even attempted to be worked on in class.   If your child has special accommodations, those will be respected.

I am asking for your help in impressing the importance of work ethic and responsibility to all of my students.  I consider my work with your kids to be a partnership and I cannot help them become better and smarter little humans if some of them continue to refuse to join me in that partnership.

I hope everyone had a great holiday!  Personally, I am bored and ready to get back to it. As always, please let me know if you have any questions and I will do my best to help.
Happy New Year,                                                                                                                 Miss Pennington

P.S. Progress reports will continue to go home on Thursdays, so please remember to go over them with your kiddos and send them back--signed-on Fridays.