As a culminating activity, all students select a piece to publish in the Purdy Young Author's book. We celebrate with an author signing party. Students will increase home-school responsibility skills. We are continuing our responsibility notebook program. The notebook travels back and forth with the student each day containing notes, homework, etc.
Parents check the notebook, initial it and return the notebook.
Strategies have been planned to assist those families who are not consistently returning notebooks. Purdy Homework Night continued for the third year. All students receive a homework assignment each Tuesday to be returned the next day. The homework is designed so the student can complete it without any parental help. Every student will be able to communicate effectively through writing, using a bank of high frequency words and spelling approximations, being accountable for words mastered and willing to take risks on those not yet learned.