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.