Mrs. Thompson's 6th grade ELA blog

How is it already the third week of school? Everything goes so fast! Before we know it, it will be Thanksgiving.

Reminders for the upcoming week:

Open House will be Wednesday, 9/11, from 6-7:30 p.m. at Stout!

OUR FIRST ASSIGNMENT, THE SELFIE PROJECT, IS DUE FRIDAY 9/13. The assignment, and examples, were discussed in class on Thursday, 8/29.

There will be a Greek Roots Quiz on FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20TH. Students have study sheets; if they lose them, there are pictures of the sheets in Google Classroom. I recommend making flashcards to study. We will do a Kahoot to review in class the day before the quiz!!

PICTURE DAY IS TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1ST!!!!

We will be doing NWEA Language testing the week of September 16th.

Library time is scheduled every 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.

We will continue to practice opening lockers; backpacks need to go in lockers and stay there!!!!

One pagers were due Thursday, August 29th. Any student who did not submit one will receive a 0 for the assignment.

Students who DID NOT attend a Dearborn elementary last year DO NOT have to complete the One Pager assignment.

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.

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.

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.

Welcome back! Hoping everyone had a great 4 day weekend 🙂 I am sad that summer is over, but happy for weather that is a little cooler in the weeks to come. It is so much easier to walk our dogs at night!

Reminders for the upcoming week:

• Please read the syllabus that was sent home last week. The bottom part needs to be signed by students AND parents, and returned to Mrs. Thompson.
• OUR FIRST ASSIGNMENT, THE SELFIE PROJECT, IS DUE FRIDAY 9/13. The assignment, and examples, were discussed in class on Thursday, 8/29.
• We will be doing NWEA Reading testing this week! Be sure to bring a silent reading book to class.
• We will be doing NWEA Language testing the week of September 16th.
• Library time is scheduled every 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.
• We will continue to practice opening lockers; backpacks need to go in lockers and stay there!!!!
• One pagers were due Thursday, August 29th. Any student who did not submit one will receive a 0 for the assignment.
• Students who DID NOT attend a Dearborn elementary last year DO NOT have to complete the One Pager assignment.
• 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.
• 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.

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.

Welcome to 2020! January is a weird month; we have several half days, and a full day off school – plus, we are doing NWEA testing.

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

Students who did not submit a summative writing assignment received an email on Friday, December 20th. This assignment is 40% of the MP 2 grade, and failure to submit it will result in a grade of 0.

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

Our NWEA schedule is as follows: Language NWEA Jan 6-10; Reading NWEA Jan 21,22, 23-28

Friday, January 17th is a half day.

Monday, January 20th, is no school.

Tuesday, January 21 and Wednesday, January 22 are half days.

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:  Taking NWEA Language test; finishing analyzing the murder mystery; beginning the CER; doing notes over parts of speech (conjunctions and adverbs).

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