Good morning.  Each Wednesday, I collect each student’s reading response journal.  Please continue to read 20 minutes each night using a high interest, lexile-appropriate reading book.

The vision board is a visual reminder for students of their short-term goals (achieved within the middle school years) and long-term goals (achieved in high school, college, and beyond).  Please have three short-term goals and three long-term goals at a minimum. Gather newspapers, magazines, internet pictures, words, phrases, and a glue stick.  We will glue…

Today and tomorrow, we will administer the NWEA reading assessment to each 6th grade and 7th grade student during his/her Language Arts class.  The district is using the 70th %ile as an indicator on future success for the ACT test given in high school (which is now the SAT test given in high school starting…

We continue to go through classroom procedures as well as delve into the skills and strategies that will help prepare the students for the M-STEP test in the spring. The last page of the syllabus was to be returned to me this week. Several students have not done so. Syllabus   Be sure to read…

Welcome back to school.  This will be an exciting year at Unis.  We have many wonderful things to experience.