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March 21

Celebrities of the Day! Reminder that new format Reading logs are due on Monday! YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO TAKE T HE QUIZ WITHOUT THE LOGS! MAKE SURE PARENTS SIGN EACH OF THE FIVE DAYS!

Celebrities of the Day! Today students completed the last day of in class work on the 6+1 traits of writing on line assignment. Anyone who did not complete the assignment must complete and turn in the 3 sheets by Thursday of this week. Computer assess is needed for this assignment. Many students have asked me […]

March 15, 2014

Celebrities of the Day! Today students completed the Close and Critical District Assessment. This assessment reviews theme, author’s craft, and text to text, self , world connection and summary. Great job everyone! We have just completed a unit on research. Mr. Blake’s class wrote a Cause and Effect essay about pollution, and we worked on […]

March 6, 2014

Celebrities of the Day! Today students worked on vocabulary sketches and began creating source cards and note cards for the research portion of their social studies papers. HOMEWORK: COMPLETE 2 SOURCE CARDS AND 2 NOTE CARDS FOR FRIDAY. MAKE SURE TO BRING IN COMPLETED ROUGH DRAFT ON POLLUTION FOR CLASS TOMORROW.

March 4, 2014

Celebrities of the Day! Students started working on the beginning stages of research and citation. We will be integrating language arts and social studies for the next upcoming cause /effect essay. Students will be learning how to cite sources and create a works cited list in ELA class, and will be using this information in […]

Feb. 25, 2014

Celebrities of the Day! Today students worked on revising the compare/contrast essays and had cafe time to read and word on vocabulary building. homework: Complete rough draft complete vocabulary tracker-14 words on the list create 10 frayer models from the vocabulary tracker Continue to work on reading logs

Feb. 24, 2014

Celebrities of the Day! Welcome Back to class! I hope you and your families had a relaxing and enjoyable winter break! Today students went to the library. PLEASE SIGN READING LOGS EACH DAY! FIVE NEW LOGS ARE DUE NEXT MONDAY, MARCH 3. PROGRESS REPORTS WERE SENT HOME TODAY! ALL STUDENTS MUST SIGN AND RETURN […]

fEB. 14, 2014

HAPPY WINTER BREAK! TODAY STUDENTS WORKED ON COMPARE CONTRAST GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS TO PREPARE FOR THEIR ESSAYS AFTER BREAK. WE ALSO REVIEWED CRITERIA FOR READING LOGS. THERE WERE MANY MISSING LOGS AGAIN THIS WEEK! PARENTS PLEASE ASK YOUR CHILDREN WHERE THE LOGS ARE AND PLEASE SIGN EACH DAY! WE DO NOT COMPLETE THESE IN CLASS! VOCABULARY TRACKERS […]

February 6, 2014

Celebrities of the Day! Today students continued on with Ruby Bridges and also worked on our 6 Word Memoirs, and Wordles. These two assignments are due tomorrow.

Feb. 5, 2014

Celebrities of the Day! Today we continued with our discussion on the Civil Right’s Movement, and began working towards a compare/contrast essay by comparing Martin Luther King Jr., to Ruby Bridges. Students were also assigned a 6 word memoir and a wordle to be completed as a summative assessment, due FRIDAY! ASk you child to […]