March is Reading Month

Elementary Schools typically go all out celebrating Reading Month in March, but its important to remember we still need to celebrate reading in middle school too.  March has been recognized as reading month across school districts since I was a little kid and it has always pushed me to want to read more.  We need to remember this mentality across the other 11 months of the year as well.  Use this month to try and encourage the students to read an extra 15 minutes every night and try and push for it each and every month forward.

In class we will continue pushing forward with our core subjects.  We have 1 month left in the marking period.  In Science, we are still working on our vocabulary for weather and starting to look into clouds and their contribution to weather.  In math, we are beginning to dive deeper into shapes and comparing different attributes of shapes.  We will begin looking at 3-dimensional shapes too.  In Language Arts, we just finished writing a story in 3rd person narrative.  We are now switching into the Authors Purpose of reading and focusing on informational texts from there.