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Feb. 3

Celebrities of the Day! Students took the district persuasive writing prompt today. They worked hard to produce a 5 paragraph essay in a 55 minute period of time! Reading logs were turned in today. Homework: Read and complete 5 reading logs by next Monday.

January 31

Today students worked on persuasive essays. The district writing prompt will be on Monday, so come to school ready to write! We also went to the library and chose new books. Keep reading! REMINDER: 3 days of reading logs are due on Monday! Please don’t forget to get parent signatures! There were MANY missing reading […]

January 16, 2014

Today students completed a picture journal prompt, a vocabulary tracker, and worked on author’s perspective through the reading of the short story, “The Red Guard”. homework: Reading logs are due on Tuesday, January 21. There is a new format! Please continue to sign parents!

JANUARY 13, 2014

Today students started to create their new reading logs. They will be completing them on loose-leaf. PARENTS PLEASE continue to sign the reading logs. We also continued working with the short story “The Ghost of the Lagoon”. The mini lesson focuses on point of view and perspective. BOOK JACKET grades were put into MISTAR on […]

January 9, 2014

Happy New Year! Hope you all had a relaxing break. Today we went to the library to get new reading material, made a Vocabulary bookmark, and learned the format for the new reading logs! READ tonight!

December 20, 2014

Today we used rubrics to assess our book jackets. The kids did a wonderful job with this assignment! WE also continued filling in the pyramid of action following the movie Duma. I did not give any homework for the break, other than to read and to relax with family and friends! Have a wonderful […]

Dec. 19, 2014

Celebrities of the Day! Today students added the final touches to their book jackets. This has been worked on all week in class and some of the work should have also been working on it at home. We also continued filling in our Pyramid of Action about the short film Duma. HOMEWORK! FINAL COPY OF […]

December 18, 2013

Celebrities of the Day! Students worked productively on the remaining sections of their book jacket. They also applied the pyramid of action to the story “Duma” and watched part of the movie. Homework Students should read for 20 minutes. Have a great day!

December 17, 2013

Celebrities of the Day! Today in class we continued to work on our book jacket assignments, completing the summary section and continuing on with research of the author information and book critiques. We also started to read a non-fiction piece about a young family in Africa. We will review the pyramid of action with this […]

December 12, 2011

Celebrities of the Day!!! Students were introduced to methods moviemakers and storytellers take to develop a character in media. The example used from the book is from the show “Smallville” which is about Superman as a teenager. The literature book had an accompanying clip for the students to watch to pay attention to the […]