Month: October 2019

Any costumes must be consistent with the dress code policy and MAY NOT interfere with the learning process or the teaching in the classroom.
The following rules must be followed if a student chooses to wear a costume:

• No Props or Weapons of ANY KIND
  
• No Masks
  
• No Make-up
  
• No Hats or Wigs
• No Costumes that are revealing
  
• Skirts and shorts must meet the fingertip length rule
  
• Nothing offensive
  
• Nothing distracting
  
• No fake (or real) blood
  

Any violators will be asked to change or be sent home. 
In Middle School, classes do not celebrate Halloween, students should not bring bags of candy to school to distribute or any other treats. This causes a disruption to learning in the classroom, in the hallways at lockers, and during lunch. 

Happy Monday! Our weather is slowly getting colder – I heard it might snow on Thursday!

ALL LATE WORK SHOULD HAVE BEEN SUBMITTED ON THE 25TH! Unless a student had a medical excuse, they cannot submit late work now.

A NEW READING JOURNAL WAS HANDED OUT TODAY. IT IS DUE MONDAY, NOVEMBER 4TH.

Students are working on a summative writing task that is due TODAY. It only needs to be 2-3 paragraphs (10-20 sentences) in order to be handed in. Some time in class will be given to work on this assignment; however, since it is very short, students can also work at home. Students had the opportunity last week to have their work edited by a peer, so that changes could be made before submitting their work. A rubric is available in Google Classroom, along with a copy of the story for reference.

The next Greek Roots quiz will be FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1st.

Students will have a SUMMATIVE Greek Roots quiz over the first 24 words on THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21ST. All the sheets are available in Google classroom, in case theirs have been “misplaced”.

Students will have a quiz over identifying nouns, verbs, and adjectives in sentences on Wednesday, October 30th. We do this every week in class, so students have had LOTS of practice!

THERE IS NO SCHOOL ON TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5TH.

Parent teacher Conferences are Monday, November 11th and Wednesday, November 13th from 4:00-7.

Library time is scheduled every week (mostly on Friday). I am happy to send students to the library before Friday if it is needed. Students may check out 3 library books at one time. Students must have a barcode on their planner to check out a book until we have student ID’s.

Students who are one or more minutes late to class will be marked Tardy. At 3 tardies, I will contact home via email, and copy the front office on the email. At 4 tardies, students will be referred to the office AND serve detention.

Please add yourselves to our classroom Remind account! I will be sending important information throughout the year via Remind text. Use the link: rmd.at/h8cchc OR text the message @h8cchc to 831-613-1863

Email is the best way to contact me. My email is: thompsc@dearbornschools.org

Please check Student Connect and Parent connect frequently. Parent Connect requires a PIN number and a Password to login. Student Connect requires a username and a password to login. The office secretaries can provide you with the PIN number for Parent Connect!!

This week, we are: watching Pixar shorts to review the concept of plot and practice completing a plot diagram; learning about tone and mood; learning about different types of pronouns; working on completing our summative writing assignment for MP 1.

Below is a Google Calendar. It is updated with each blog post and shows assignment due dates and upcoming events. Assignment due dates can also be found in Google Classroom and on the board in H4.

I guess the warm weather can’t last forever 🙂

Reminders for the upcoming week:

Reading Journals from last Monday are due TODAY!

A new Reading Journal was handed out today; it will be due Monday, October 14th.

The Greek Roots quiz will be FRIDAY. The words are: CIRCUM, INTER, TRANS, EX, ANTI, TELE, OLOGY, UN. Copies of the word lists are posted in Google Classroom. We will do a Kahoot before the quiz on Friday.

Library time is scheduled every week (mostly on Friday). I am happy to send students to the library before Friday if it is needed. Students may check out 3 library books at one time. Students must have a barcode on their planner to check out a book until we have student ID’s.

Students who are one or more minutes late to class will be marked Tardy. At 3 tardies, I will contact home via email, and copy the front office on the email. At 4 tardies, students will be referred to the office AND serve detention.

We have a student from Wayne State University with us for the entire school year! She will be doing her pre student teaching this semester (so observing, working in small groups, helping with planning, presenting 4 lessons) and her student teaching in the second half of the school year.

Please add yourselves to our classroom Remind account! I will be sending important information throughout the year via Remind text. Use the link: rmd.at/h8cchc OR text the message @h8cchc to 831-613-1863

Email is the best way to contact me. My email is: thompsc@dearbornschools.org

Please check Student Connect and Parent connect frequently. Parent Connect requires a PIN number and a Password to login. Student Connect requires a username and a password to login. The office secretaries can provide you with the PIN number for Parent Connect!!

This week, we are: learning how to make and fill in the parts of a plot diagram; watching Pixar shorts to review this concept and practice it; discussing 1st and 3rd person point of view in stories.

Below is a Google Calendar. It is updated with each blog post and shows assignment due dates and upcoming events. Assignment due dates can also be found in Google Classroom and on the board in H4.