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**PARENTS!!!! Your child is now an important part of a collaborative learning community lovingly named, Blake's Bugs. This year, your student will be expected to give their best effort in all they attempt to do. There are millions of different kinds of insects. Each insect has different abilities and strengths - so do our students. Each student is unique, and will be treated as such this year. Success to me is not necessarily a letter grade, but a measure of improvement that reflects the amount of effort put forth inside and outside of the classroom. Successful students have a can do attitude. In our classroom, "I can't" and "I wont" are fly swatter phrases that act to squash classroom bugs! Yikes!**

**Homework Policy:** Please be advised that Bolivar Intermediate School has a school wide homework policy. Please make sure your child is completing homework on time. If a paper is late, it lowers the grade on the paper. In third grade, this kind of policy may be new to you and your student, so please familiarize yourself with it and forward any questions to me that you may have. =Here is our school's late work policy: = =1 Day late- 20% off the paper = =2 Days late-50% off the paper = =3 Days late-0% on the assignment = 


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[|Adobe Flash Player] [|Picnic] Photo Editing [|GIMP](Photoshop) Photo Editing [|Open Office Suite] (word, etc.) [|Animoto] (Images into videos with sound, etc.) [|Power Point Reader] (this is only a reader - to view power points-, not a creater)