Month: January 2020

Happy Monday! Three Mondays from today, we will be off for an entire week (and it will also be mid February, which is crazy!).

Marking period 3 begins today, and ends March 27th. ALL LATE WORK FOR MP3 will be DUE FRIDAY, MARCH 20TH.

Report cards will likely be sent home in the next 7-10 days.

Reading Journals are due today.

Reading journals were handed out today (electronic copy was posted in Google classroom). It will be due Monday, February 3rd.

A new Greek Roots list was handed out today. The words are: PHOTOS, GEO, AQUA, HEMI. The quiz will be Friday, February 7th.

NWEA WILL BE GIVEN JANUARY 21-29TH. Students will be completing the Reading NWEA test in class.

The next half day is Friday, March 13th.

Mid Winter break will be Monday, February 18-Friday, February 22.

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 a lunch detention. An updated copy of our tardy policy is on my blog!

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:  completing a CER related to the murder mystery story; continuing work on point of view; review QAR strategies; beginning work on types of figurative language (simile, metaphor, onomatopoeia, personification, hyperbole, idiom, allusion) using the story “All Summer in a Day.”

Below is an updated Google Calendar. It lists upcoming assignments and due dates. This information can also be found on the board in H4.

I hope everyone had a relaxing day off yesterday.

Marking period 3 begins today, and ends March 27th. ALL LATE WORK FOR MP3 will be DUE FRIDAY, MARCH 20TH.

Report cards will likely be sent home in the next 7-10 days.

Reading journals were handed out today (electronic copy was posted in Google classroom yesterday). It will be due Monday, January 27th.

A new Greek Roots list will be handed out on Monday, February 27th. The quiz will be Friday, February 7th.

NWEA WILL BE GIVEN JANUARY 21-29TH. Students will be completing the Reading NWEA test in class.

There are HALF DAYS on FRIDAY, JANUARY 17TH, TUESDAY, JANUARY 21 AND WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22.

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 a lunch detention. An updated copy of our tardy policy is on my blog!

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:  completing a CER related to the murder mystery story; continuing work on point of view; review QAR strategies; beginning work on types of figurative language (simile, metaphor, onomatopoeia, personification, hyperbole, idiom, allusion) using the story “All Summer in a Day.”

Below is an updated Google Calendar. It lists upcoming assignments and due dates. This information can also be found on the board in H4.

It’s the last week of the second marking period! We are almost halfway through January. Time flies!

ALL LATE WORK FOR MP2 WAS DUE ON FRIDAY, JANUARY 10th. Unless a student was absent, or a prior arrangement was made, late work will no longer be accepted. The marking period ends Friday, and I need time to grade work.

Final Drafts of the compare/contrast papers will no longer be accepted, unless a prior arrangement was made. If they have not been submitted, the score is now a 0. The paper was due December 18th, and in class time was provided to complete the work.

Reading journals are due TODAY.

THERE IS NO READING JOURNAL THIS WEEK! A new one will be handed out on Tuesday, January 21st.

A new Greek roots list will was handed out today. The words are: PARA, DIA, PER, EXTRA. The quiz will be Friday, February 7th.

NWEA WILL BE GIVEN JANUARY 21-29TH. Students will be completing the Reading NWEA test in class.

There is NO SCHOOL on MONDAY, JANUARY 20TH (MLK DAY).

There are HALF DAYS on FRIDAY, JANUARY 17TH, TUESDAY, JANUARY 21 AND WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22.

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 a lunch detention. An updated copy of our tardy policy is on my blog!

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:  completing a CER related to the murder mystery story; continuing work on point of view; review QAR strategies; beginning work on types of figurative language (simile, metaphor, onomatopoeia, personification, hyperbole, idiom, allusion).

Below is an updated Google Calendar. It lists upcoming assignments and due dates. This information can also be found on the board in H4.

Welcome back! I hope everyone had a restful break 🙂 There were a lot of tired faces today, including mine.

Marking Period 2 started November 4th and runs through January 17, 2020. ALL LATE WORK FOR MP2 WILL BE DUE ON FRIDAY, JANUARY 10th.

The FINAL DRAFT of the compare/contrast paper WAS DUE DECEMBER 18TH. At this point, the paper is more than two days late. Papers must be handed in by January 10th to receive credit for MP 2. A RUBRIC WAS HANDED OUT DETAILING EXPECTATIONS, AND CAN ALSO BE FOUND IN GOOGLE CLASSROOM.

A new reading journal was handed out today; it is due Monday, January 13th.

NWEA WILL BE GIVEN THIS WEEK (JANUARY 6-10), AND AGAIN JANUARY 21-29TH. Students will be completing both the Language and Reading NWEA tests in class.

Math and Science have scheduled their NWEA for different weeks 🙂

There is NO SCHOOL on MONDAY, JANUARY 20TH (MLK DAY).

There are HALF DAYS on FRIDAY, JANUARY 17TH, TUESDAY, JANUARY 21 AND WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22.

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 a lunch detention. An updated copy of our tardy policy is on my blog!

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:  completing NWEA; analyzing a murder mystery; completing a CER related to the murder mystery story; continuing work on point of view.

Below is an updated Google Calendar. It lists upcoming assignments and due dates. This information can also be found on the board in H4.