Wow! Hard to believe that we are in June already. I hope you are enjoying the beautiful weather and finding time to get outside. This week you will be working on your last assignments and completing any others from this semester that you have not completed. You will find the assignments in Google Classroom under the Classwork tab.

This week, students will be practicing their reading comprehension by reading passages and answering questions. We have been working on using our reading voice and thinking voice in order to understand text. They will continue to practice that skill as it will help them make meaning out of text.

Continue looking at MISTAR and Google Classroom for assignments and missing work.

The students have been working hard learning about how to use their Reading Voices and their Thinking Voices and to mute their Distracting Voices. This strategy helps them with understanding what they are reading and to make meaning. We are practicing this using passages from their novels that they are reading in their English Language Arts class. The 8th graders are reading OUTSIDERS and the 7th graders are reading “OUT OF THE DUST”.

Please continue to follow Google Classroom for your assignments this week. If your work is not completed, you may still turn it in. If work has been returned to you, please review it, fix your responses, and resubmit it to me through Google Classroom.

Please feel free to contact me via email and I will get back to you as soon as I can between 8 am and 3 pm.

You will be watching two video lessons this week. All of the video lessons will be posted under Classwork in Google Classroom along with the work. Be sure to open up all the tabs that go with the video lesson. Complete the work that is listed under the Classroom tab.

I can see that many of you are trying hard to complete your class work each week and are using your reading and thinking voices to help you make meaning of text. Remember that these grades do count and will be entered into MISTAR. Continue to make your best effort in lab and in all your other classes.

Hi Class,

I will be recording my lessons and posting them in Google Classroom under the Classwork Tab every Monday and Wednesday. There will be assignments that go along with them Monday – Thursday. Watch them all the way through so that you understand how to do the assignments.

If you need help, email me. I will email you back. I am happy to call you to help you as well. I can even work with you over the phone to help you go through the lesson.

It is important to keep up with all your assignments and not get behind. Effort is so important to improving as a learner.

My office hours are on Fridays from 10:00 – 12:00. Email me if you need to contact me and I will get back to you if you are unable to reach me.