Two Fire Drills in One Day and Some Thoughts on Summer Homework 2014

Today the excessive humidity tripped our fire alarm system twice resulting in the entire school going outside for two fire drills within the course of twenty minutes.  The local fire department came to the school and determined that excessive humidity caused the alarm to sound.  A technician from our fire alarm company arrived an hour later and repaired the system so that we could return to our regular schedule and prevent this from happening again.

This Monday summer homework is due for students in grades 4-8.  Throughout the summer I received insightful feedback from families regarding what they found helpful about assignments and areas where we could improve in terms of the quality and quantity of the work.  This was our first year creating summer homework assignments.  We expect our students to excel at LCCS and we want their learning to continue throughout the summer.  It is critical that we create summer homework that is engaging for our students with clear directions and expectations for each assignment. 

As we begin to review the summer homework assignments that are coming in we will evaluate how many students actually completed their assignments and who struggled with understanding them.  After conducting this review we will turn our focus towards creating 2015 summer homework that is engaging, fairly simple to understand, and that results in a high level of student completion.  The feedback we received from families and students over the course of this summer will be invaluable as we begin crafting new summer homework assignments.

Thanks to all the students that completed 2014 summer homework and their families that supported them throughout this process. We will work diligently to further improve summer homework for next year.