Parents,
Teacher appreciation week is over. Thank you for the great week! Thank you for the kind notes, school supplies, plant, art, and food this week! Lunch was brought to me every day- that was very generous and delicious. Your kids created a mural of me that was especially touching and memorable. As I have mentioned to a few parents, I have pushed to have it become a permanent mural at Driggs. Unfortunately, I don't think that is going to happen. In talking to the class, leading up to teacher appreciation week, I told them that I didn't really need flowers or anything. What I really wanted was for them to do their best on their end-of-the-year testing. Yesterday afternoon I received the results of last week's writing and this week's language arts tests. I am incredibly proud of what your children accomplished. Because they didn't test last year, I can't easily see their growth from 4th grade, but I can see that we are close to 100 percent proficient in writing and 84 percent proficient in language arts. To put that in perspective, the district (5th grade) has a writing proficiency of 58 percent and a language arts proficiency of 33 percent. I am so very proud and thankful for the effort they have put in this year and over the past two weeks. It was the best gift for teacher appreciation. While I am writing to you I would also like to add that next week your child will be assigned a state for our end-of-the-year state report and activities. Part of the activity is that your child will try to dress up in a way that represents their state. They will bring their outfit/costume to school on Thursday, May 27th. I will be taking pictures of them to put into a montage video. The goal with the outfit is to be creative, not to spend a lot of money. Thank you again, John
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