Progress Reports are coming home today. Please keep this in mind...
This is a progress report or snapshot in time of what's going on and how your student is progressing toward meeting the standard. If there is a 1 or 2 now, there could be a 3 or even 4 on report cards and of course if there is a 3 now, there could still be a 2 or 1 on report cards as we will have assessments to match toward the standard at that time.
Please use these as conversation starters and pay attention to the comments.
Friday, January 30, 2015
Thursday, January 29, 2015
Thursday 1-29-15
Quick blog
SS - started to read The First Americans by Joy Hakim
LA - Ms. Lamb did blind sort for all
Homework:
LA current events , MS Lamb handed out The Hottest Year
Read for 30 minutes - should be finishing in class book
Math Page 27 abd 28 and Exemplars is due tomorrow all written up
SS - started to read The First Americans by Joy Hakim
LA - Ms. Lamb did blind sort for all
Homework:
LA current events , MS Lamb handed out The Hottest Year
Read for 30 minutes - should be finishing in class book
Math Page 27 abd 28 and Exemplars is due tomorrow all written up
Wednesday, January 28, 2015
Wednesday 1-28-15
Late again, oh well.
Here's the homework
Math: exemplars due Friday, skill sheet due tomorrow
LA: Take the night off - go band!
finish 8 sentences if not done
Read for 30 minutes (the rest of you should do double homework since you're not in the band - read some extra for the team)
In LA we worked on word study today.
Only Incredible had Social Studies. Ms. Lamb had to go to a meeting at Central Office. Thank you Ms. Poley for covering. Kids went to the lab to finish postin on YWP, do one lesson of edutyping and start looking around for a science project idea.
Here's the homework
Math: exemplars due Friday, skill sheet due tomorrow
LA: Take the night off - go band!
finish 8 sentences if not done
Read for 30 minutes (the rest of you should do double homework since you're not in the band - read some extra for the team)
In LA we worked on word study today.
Only Incredible had Social Studies. Ms. Lamb had to go to a meeting at Central Office. Thank you Ms. Poley for covering. Kids went to the lab to finish postin on YWP, do one lesson of edutyping and start looking around for a science project idea.
Tuesday, January 27, 2015
Tuesday 1-27-15
Here we are in rapt attention at All Tem Meeting.
Today in LA we revisted YWP and posted an entry:
What do you know about Native Americans? and What do you wonder about Native Americans?
Ms. Lamb wants homework posted on YWP now. She will review that practice this week.
Speaking of homework, all students received a printout of schoology. Schoology is just for did you hand it in or not. Don't pay attention to the percentages and the assignments are not weighted.
A lot of students are not handing in homework from journals. This is collected on Friday and/or must be shared with Ms. Lamb on line (thus the new policy of posting on YWP to get the place all in one and prevent forgeting to share with me.)
We finished with All Team Meeting this afternoon.
We discussed:
Penguin Plunge
New writing Take a Break practice/policy (it's old, but we revisted it)
transitions
no physical contact policy
We tabled till next meeting
CARES shoutouts
writing weird things on the computer like I'm watching you and freaking out the next person
field trips
Homework:
Math: Exemplars (work on it tonight) due Friday
Skill sheet due Thursday
Reading journal: What is the heart of your novel? (In class novel)
Read for 30 minutes
Monday, January 26, 2015
Monday 1-26-15
We made new groups today. We now have Magnificent and Incredible for LA/math and SS/Science groups. This way we experience new people and feel fresh.
It is the start of 2nd trimester. We switch from world language to music or vice versa.
We cleaned our cubbies and binders!
Homework:
LA Tell the story of a penny or free choice
Finish sort one for word study
Read 30 minutes - you should be past the halfway point in your in class novel
Math Skill sheet due Thursday
Finish page 20 and do 21 and 22 for homework
No Khan this week BUT
Exemplars due Friday
It is the start of 2nd trimester. We switch from world language to music or vice versa.
We cleaned our cubbies and binders!
Homework:
LA Tell the story of a penny or free choice
Finish sort one for word study
Read 30 minutes - you should be past the halfway point in your in class novel
Math Skill sheet due Thursday
Finish page 20 and do 21 and 22 for homework
No Khan this week BUT
Exemplars due Friday
Saturday, January 24, 2015
Friday (really Saturday) 1-23/24-15
We had a great exhibition on Friday. Thanks to the parents that could stop in. I like to provide us with a production to help us have an authentic audience. You helped provide that (as did we and Mr. Cole's class that stopped by.) I can confidently say, everyone learned a lot about researching and presenting. I will let you know of future visiting opportunities.
Our next research writing will start Monday with us all reading Joy Hakim's The History of Us The First Americans. This book will give us a good mentor text for narrative non-fiction writing. We will each create a codex about a a tribe and write a report on one tribe after reading this text together. This will apply all of our note taking and research skills that we practiced with our Vermont History Day Leadership and Legacy project.
At the same time, students are deciding a science fair project to complete alone or with a partner.
Here is a link to the requirements
Science Fair Isearch Requirements
If you are wondering what an Isearch is, check out this article:
http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/mary.warner/Book-Teaching%20Writing%20Chapters/Chap%206%20final.pdf
(Now I'm starting to give you homework.)
Don't feel overwhelmed. The majority of the Native Americans report will be done in social studies class. The science fair will also be done at school and as an anchor activity when student have spare moments in the day. You should not that the actual tests and experiments will be done at home, but I will warn you in advance.
Students are encouraged to go to the school science fair in March (around the 10th-15th, date tbd), but not required. (There's nothing like a performance deadline.)
Next week we return to regular journal homework, focusing on finishing our novels, and word study. Progress reports will come home on Friday.
Good work everyone.
Our next research writing will start Monday with us all reading Joy Hakim's The History of Us The First Americans. This book will give us a good mentor text for narrative non-fiction writing. We will each create a codex about a a tribe and write a report on one tribe after reading this text together. This will apply all of our note taking and research skills that we practiced with our Vermont History Day Leadership and Legacy project.
At the same time, students are deciding a science fair project to complete alone or with a partner.
Here is a link to the requirements
Science Fair Isearch Requirements
If you are wondering what an Isearch is, check out this article:
http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/mary.warner/Book-Teaching%20Writing%20Chapters/Chap%206%20final.pdf
(Now I'm starting to give you homework.)
Don't feel overwhelmed. The majority of the Native Americans report will be done in social studies class. The science fair will also be done at school and as an anchor activity when student have spare moments in the day. You should not that the actual tests and experiments will be done at home, but I will warn you in advance.
Students are encouraged to go to the school science fair in March (around the 10th-15th, date tbd), but not required. (There's nothing like a performance deadline.)
Next week we return to regular journal homework, focusing on finishing our novels, and word study. Progress reports will come home on Friday.
Good work everyone.
Thursday, January 22, 2015
Thursday 1-22-15
Today's the last day to work on your project. Tomorrow is due day, no matter what.
Bring your presentation in whatever shape it is in. All work will be in the library from 8:30 to 9:30. Parents are welcome to come witness the event.
Students have been researching for almost 4 months. They should be ready to prove their person is a leader and defend their legacy.
Also due tomorrow is Khan Academy.
Bring your presentation in whatever shape it is in. All work will be in the library from 8:30 to 9:30. Parents are welcome to come witness the event.
Students have been researching for almost 4 months. They should be ready to prove their person is a leader and defend their legacy.
Also due tomorrow is Khan Academy.
Wednesday, January 21, 2015
Wednesday 1-21-15
We have a lot of specials on Wednesdays so we only had about 40 minutes to work on our presentations (due Friday).
On Friday, bring what you have, done or not. We will all present what we have in the library at 8:30. Most students are making trifold presentation exhibits. Some are writing reports, making documentaries or performing live. All students will assess themselves with the rubric tomorrow and assess five classmates on Friday.
The requirements so far are:
Read a book
find an internet source
20 note cards
a worksheet organizer
10 vocabulary words defined and connected
a flash draft in your in class journal
an outline in your journal
A final presentation
Bibliography using easybib.com
Click here to see rubrics for presenations
Tonight's homework:
Specific task for project completion
Read (you can put this off until the weekend if you need more time for your project)
Math:
Skill sheet due tomorrow
Page 15 and 16 due tomorrow
Khan Academy due Friday.
In social studies science we combined to watch a short video about Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
On Friday, bring what you have, done or not. We will all present what we have in the library at 8:30. Most students are making trifold presentation exhibits. Some are writing reports, making documentaries or performing live. All students will assess themselves with the rubric tomorrow and assess five classmates on Friday.
The requirements so far are:
Read a book
find an internet source
20 note cards
a worksheet organizer
10 vocabulary words defined and connected
a flash draft in your in class journal
an outline in your journal
A final presentation
Bibliography using easybib.com
Click here to see rubrics for presenations
Tonight's homework:
Specific task for project completion
Read (you can put this off until the weekend if you need more time for your project)
Math:
Skill sheet due tomorrow
Page 15 and 16 due tomorrow
Khan Academy due Friday.
In social studies science we combined to watch a short video about Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
Tuesday, January 20, 2015
Tuesday 1-21-15
Welcome back from the long weekend.
This is finish your Leadership and Legacy project week. We will work daily in class and for homework. Work will be presented on Friday morning in the library. The entire class will meet together. Parents are welcome to attend if they desire.
Tonight's homework:
LA - what specific task will you complete for your project? i.e. Write more of report, find pictures and write captions for trifold, write more of script for documentary or performance.
Be able to answer these categories:
1) What did this person do to become a leader?
2) What is their background - time period, family, circumstance?
3) How did they affect the world at the time?
4) How did they change things for others?
This is major work for this entire week.
Math:
Page 17 if not required to do skill sheet, if you are required to do skill sheet you don't have to do page 17, but do the skill sheet. It's due Thursday.
Khan Academy due Friday.
All Team Meeting Summary:
We had a big talk about responsibilty and computers. We need to trust that kids are doing their work on Khan or for research when they are on the comptuer, not fiddling around streming music, watching videos or playing games. This is a big conversation going on all over the school, but we are taking this very seriously. Misuse may result in losing computer privileges for a time. It's hard, but math and research can be done without a computer.
Valentines are allowed, but we ask that you bring one for everyone. We ask that you not bring candy. We have had some big problems with candy in the past.
The "R" word. BRMS is a place where we don't insult an entire group of people by teasing our friends for doing something silly. This means we don't call people retards or retarded or gay or a girl if they are a boy. I'm sure there are other examples, but you get the picure. We take this seriously and ask that kids do also.
MLK Day - community building. We took a minute to intoduce what Martin Luther King day is. Tomorrow we will spend a class period investigating the topic of community service.
Shout outs this week go to Maggie and Emma R. Way to go girls.
This is finish your Leadership and Legacy project week. We will work daily in class and for homework. Work will be presented on Friday morning in the library. The entire class will meet together. Parents are welcome to attend if they desire.
Tonight's homework:
LA - what specific task will you complete for your project? i.e. Write more of report, find pictures and write captions for trifold, write more of script for documentary or performance.
Be able to answer these categories:
1) What did this person do to become a leader?
2) What is their background - time period, family, circumstance?
3) How did they affect the world at the time?
4) How did they change things for others?
This is major work for this entire week.
Math:
Page 17 if not required to do skill sheet, if you are required to do skill sheet you don't have to do page 17, but do the skill sheet. It's due Thursday.
Khan Academy due Friday.
All Team Meeting Summary:
We had a big talk about responsibilty and computers. We need to trust that kids are doing their work on Khan or for research when they are on the comptuer, not fiddling around streming music, watching videos or playing games. This is a big conversation going on all over the school, but we are taking this very seriously. Misuse may result in losing computer privileges for a time. It's hard, but math and research can be done without a computer.
Valentines are allowed, but we ask that you bring one for everyone. We ask that you not bring candy. We have had some big problems with candy in the past.
The "R" word. BRMS is a place where we don't insult an entire group of people by teasing our friends for doing something silly. This means we don't call people retards or retarded or gay or a girl if they are a boy. I'm sure there are other examples, but you get the picure. We take this seriously and ask that kids do also.
MLK Day - community building. We took a minute to intoduce what Martin Luther King day is. Tomorrow we will spend a class period investigating the topic of community service.
Shout outs this week go to Maggie and Emma R. Way to go girls.
Friday, January 16, 2015
Friday 1-16-15
Remember there is no school on Monday. That gives you lots of time to read and work on your project which is due on Friday the 23rd.
Kids can bring trifolds home (even if they haven't paid yet.) You can even have your parents drive you in on Monday and get your trifold.
Have a great long weekend.
Try to remember Dr. King and do something helpful for the community.
Kids can bring trifolds home (even if they haven't paid yet.) You can even have your parents drive you in on Monday and get your trifold.
Have a great long weekend.
Try to remember Dr. King and do something helpful for the community.
Thursday, January 15, 2015
Wednesday and Thursday 1-14&15
I'm so sorry I fogot to blog yesterday.
I hope the concert went well for everyone.
Mr. Meadows had ISILT as an extra credit so as to give some time off to the choral participants.
Homework yesterday
ISILT optional and extra credit
Read for 30 (can catch up tomorrow)
Math: Skill sheet and Khan Academy due tomorrow (sorry no respite as this was given on Monday - plan ahead kids.)
Thursday
We are really forging ahead with our Vermont History Day Leadership and Legacy projects. Today we wrote a flash draft in our new In Class Journals that stay in our slots and are used during class (thus the name.)
This afternoon we will work to fill in any blanks. I'm moving the buddy sort for word study to tomorrow to give us more time to focus on our projects today.
Done so far on our projects:
Read book
20 or more notes
10 vocabulary words defined and connected to person
worksheet - Leader-action-legacy
flash draft
Still to come:
conferences
putting presentation together
mock presentation
final fixes
present
assess 5 others with rubric (click here to see rubric)
Remember, the presentation exhibit will be Friday January 23rd in the library at 9:30. Parents are welcome.
Tonight's homework:
Current Events - here's a new site to try http://www.cnn.com/studentnews
Read for 30 minutes
Math: page 13
(Is your Khan Academy done?)
I hope the concert went well for everyone.
Mr. Meadows had ISILT as an extra credit so as to give some time off to the choral participants.
Homework yesterday
ISILT optional and extra credit
Read for 30 (can catch up tomorrow)
Math: Skill sheet and Khan Academy due tomorrow (sorry no respite as this was given on Monday - plan ahead kids.)
Thursday
We are really forging ahead with our Vermont History Day Leadership and Legacy projects. Today we wrote a flash draft in our new In Class Journals that stay in our slots and are used during class (thus the name.)
This afternoon we will work to fill in any blanks. I'm moving the buddy sort for word study to tomorrow to give us more time to focus on our projects today.
Done so far on our projects:
Read book
20 or more notes
10 vocabulary words defined and connected to person
worksheet - Leader-action-legacy
flash draft
Still to come:
conferences
putting presentation together
mock presentation
final fixes
present
assess 5 others with rubric (click here to see rubric)
Remember, the presentation exhibit will be Friday January 23rd in the library at 9:30. Parents are welcome.
Tonight's homework:
Current Events - here's a new site to try http://www.cnn.com/studentnews
Read for 30 minutes
Math: page 13
(Is your Khan Academy done?)
Tuesday, January 13, 2015
Tuesday 1-13-15
Sorry for the late post....forgot what I was doing.
Today we started our book group books. Our choices were:
Savvy, The Indian in the Cupboard, My Side of the Mountain, Peter and the Star Catchers, Frindle and I may have forgotten one, but I think that's all of them.
The idea was, choose a book you hadn't read before from these really great award winning books.
We also worked to come up with 10 great vocabulary terms associated with our leader. Later we completed a content driven organizer for our project on leadership and legacy.
Speaking of that project, the exhibit will be on Friday January 23rd from 8:30 to 9:30 in the library. Parents are welcome. It will be informal, but a lot of great projects to see.
Homework today:
LA: Write about your new book. Why did you choose it? What are you looking forward to?
Read for 30 minutes
Math: shoot, I forgot the pages...there was something about 1/10 and 1/5 maybe -check your assignment book.
Remember, Khan and skill sheet due Thursday
Today we started our book group books. Our choices were:
Savvy, The Indian in the Cupboard, My Side of the Mountain, Peter and the Star Catchers, Frindle and I may have forgotten one, but I think that's all of them.
The idea was, choose a book you hadn't read before from these really great award winning books.
We also worked to come up with 10 great vocabulary terms associated with our leader. Later we completed a content driven organizer for our project on leadership and legacy.
Speaking of that project, the exhibit will be on Friday January 23rd from 8:30 to 9:30 in the library. Parents are welcome. It will be informal, but a lot of great projects to see.
Homework today:
LA: Write about your new book. Why did you choose it? What are you looking forward to?
Read for 30 minutes
Math: shoot, I forgot the pages...there was something about 1/10 and 1/5 maybe -check your assignment book.
Remember, Khan and skill sheet due Thursday
Monday, January 12, 2015
Monday 1-12-15
We resstarted word study. Most of us finished sort one - if not please do for homework.
We start a small group reading book tomorrow. Ms. Lamb did a book talk on the choices and we filled out a rank order ballot.
In social studies, only Fantastic met today. We are very focused on our final projects this week. Tri folds are here. Kids can have them. I request $4 donation to cover cost.
Homework:
LA journal: YWP Love. Write a mushy love story. Exaggerate. Go over the top or
your choice
Read for 30 minutes
Math: Skill sheet due Thursday, Khan Academy also due Thursday
We start a small group reading book tomorrow. Ms. Lamb did a book talk on the choices and we filled out a rank order ballot.
In social studies, only Fantastic met today. We are very focused on our final projects this week. Tri folds are here. Kids can have them. I request $4 donation to cover cost.
Homework:
LA journal: YWP Love. Write a mushy love story. Exaggerate. Go over the top or
your choice
Read for 30 minutes
Math: Skill sheet due Thursday, Khan Academy also due Thursday
Friday, January 9, 2015
Thursday and Friday 1-8&9-15
I'm sorry to say, I was away from the classroom yesterday and didn't check to see if the blog got blogged and it didn't.
Hopefully you all remembered the homework which was:
LA current event
LA current event
Read for 30
Math back sheet page 6 and Khan Academy
Today the trifolds finally came! They cost Ms. Lamb $4 each. I have run out of budget money so am asking folks that want one to chip in $4 if they can.
We will use trifolds for the science fair (which I require also.) You can use the same trifold or purchase another one.
Remember, for your Leadership and Legacy project, you do not have to choose trifold. You can do a report, live performance or documentary (movie).
We will have one full week to finish our projects. I'm tentatively thinking the presentation expo will be on Friday January 23rd in the library from 8:25 to 9:40.
Wednesday, January 7, 2015
Wednesday 1-7-15
Ms. Lamb was at a professional meeting all day but students still managed to have a good day.
Homework for tonight:
LA - ISILT - Students are to utilize the words, inertia, force and mass to try to explain why the marbles behaved the way they did during our experiment.
Math - Skill sheets were assigned on Monday and will be graded by the students this Thursday. These needed to be finished before school.
Finally, students have been asked to do 20 -30 minutes of work on the Khan Academy website. The Khan Academy (try the hyperlink and see for yourself) is a website created to help students learn almost anything they could ever imagine. You can go onto Khan Academy, search for a topic of interest and you can find videos, links and quizzes on any subject you can imagine. Students have signed up for accounts in school and will now be asked to complete 1 homework assignment a week on the Khan Academy.
What's great for me as their teacher, is I can see exactly how much they have been working, what they have been working on, and how well they are doing (or not doing). It is my first year utilizing the Khan Academy but it has terrific potential. Many teachers at BRMS rave about it. So we will be trying it this year to see it if truly can be helpful to the students learning outcomes. If you have thoughts or questions, let me know.
Stay warm!
Homework for tonight:
LA - ISILT - Students are to utilize the words, inertia, force and mass to try to explain why the marbles behaved the way they did during our experiment.
Math - Skill sheets were assigned on Monday and will be graded by the students this Thursday. These needed to be finished before school.
Finally, students have been asked to do 20 -30 minutes of work on the Khan Academy website. The Khan Academy (try the hyperlink and see for yourself) is a website created to help students learn almost anything they could ever imagine. You can go onto Khan Academy, search for a topic of interest and you can find videos, links and quizzes on any subject you can imagine. Students have signed up for accounts in school and will now be asked to complete 1 homework assignment a week on the Khan Academy.
What's great for me as their teacher, is I can see exactly how much they have been working, what they have been working on, and how well they are doing (or not doing). It is my first year utilizing the Khan Academy but it has terrific potential. Many teachers at BRMS rave about it. So we will be trying it this year to see it if truly can be helpful to the students learning outcomes. If you have thoughts or questions, let me know.
Stay warm!
Tuesday, January 6, 2015
Tuesday 1-6-15
Homework today:
LA Reading - Describe the novel you are reading. Would you recommend it? Why or why not?
Read for 30 minutes
Math: Skill sheet due Thursday
Order of Operations worksheet due tomorrow
Trifolds company was called today. They shipped today. Fingers crossed, they will be here by Friday so kids can start putting them together.
Ms. Lamb decided to put off spelling for one more week. We did our pre-assessment for informational writing today. Ms. Lamb will be out for Wednesday and Thursday (two different professional development days) so kids will work on their projects. This should mean they are mostly finished except for the polish.
LA Reading - Describe the novel you are reading. Would you recommend it? Why or why not?
Read for 30 minutes
Math: Skill sheet due Thursday
Order of Operations worksheet due tomorrow
Trifolds company was called today. They shipped today. Fingers crossed, they will be here by Friday so kids can start putting them together.
Ms. Lamb decided to put off spelling for one more week. We did our pre-assessment for informational writing today. Ms. Lamb will be out for Wednesday and Thursday (two different professional development days) so kids will work on their projects. This should mean they are mostly finished except for the polish.
Monday, January 5, 2015
Monday January 5, 2015
Welcome back.
ACCORDING TO THE NURSE, KIDS MUST WEAR COATS WHEN IT IS THIS COLD.
Kids are coming without coats saying it is okay with parents. We have to have a sanity rule that says when it's below 20 degrees with a windchill, you must have a coat, hat and mittens or sit in nurse or office for recess. Please come prepared.
In LA today we all tried to log in to schoology. Three of us had spelling discrpencies in our names, but Mr. Wallis has fixed this.
Schoology is for checking that all work is turned in. If you disagree with Ms. Lamb, send her an email or talk to her face to face.
Mr. Meadows' grades are not on schoology.
We got back into our groove a little. We all have novels we are reading to meet our reading goal. We checked in on journals and grades and finishing our cursive packets in LA.
This afternoon, just Fantastic will have social studies to get back into our project groove. Awesome will tomorrow.
A note about project trifolds: I have ordered 50 trifolds (we need them for science fair also.) I'm asking for a $4 donation and you can keep the trifold. They have been ordered, but not shipped yet. Hopefully they will be here this week.
Tonight's homework:
LA: free choice or YWP - you are walking through a park and a statue strikes up a conversation with you....
Math: Skill sheet (due Thursday)
Read for 30 minutes
ACCORDING TO THE NURSE, KIDS MUST WEAR COATS WHEN IT IS THIS COLD.
Kids are coming without coats saying it is okay with parents. We have to have a sanity rule that says when it's below 20 degrees with a windchill, you must have a coat, hat and mittens or sit in nurse or office for recess. Please come prepared.
In LA today we all tried to log in to schoology. Three of us had spelling discrpencies in our names, but Mr. Wallis has fixed this.
Schoology is for checking that all work is turned in. If you disagree with Ms. Lamb, send her an email or talk to her face to face.
Mr. Meadows' grades are not on schoology.
We got back into our groove a little. We all have novels we are reading to meet our reading goal. We checked in on journals and grades and finishing our cursive packets in LA.
This afternoon, just Fantastic will have social studies to get back into our project groove. Awesome will tomorrow.
A note about project trifolds: I have ordered 50 trifolds (we need them for science fair also.) I'm asking for a $4 donation and you can keep the trifold. They have been ordered, but not shipped yet. Hopefully they will be here this week.
Tonight's homework:
LA: free choice or YWP - you are walking through a park and a statue strikes up a conversation with you....
Math: Skill sheet (due Thursday)
Read for 30 minutes
Sunday, January 4, 2015
Sunday 1-4-15
Special Sunday Blog.
Tomorrow we return to school to start the 2015 part of the school year. In the third week of January we will be halfway through second trimester and teachers will be completing progress reports.
Ms. Lamb has just finished posting before vacation grades. Note that I am grading each journal entry individually so students and parents can see exactly what is missing (although I don't post until the weekend.) I will have all students log into their schoology accounts tomorrow so I know everyone knows their status and how to access it. (Please remember that I make mistakes sometimes, so let me know if I forgot to update something or when haywire on my number inputting.)
Most weeks (but not all) we have a word study packet due that we complete mostly in class. This will become a homework assignment eventually, although we continue to do the first sort in class on Monday or Tuesday (this week we will start on Tuesday.)
In social studies, we have been devoting ourselves to our Vermont History Day projects which will be due on or about January 15th (more exact date coming soon.) So far students have turned in notes (last trimester) and completed an organizer called Mad Lib. This is posted in the social studies grades.
This trimester's LA writing focus is informational (or report) writing. Very soon, we will start reading together The History of Us The First Americans. This will culminate in an individual study of one group of Native Americans and the completion of a codex and report.
See you kids tomorrow. Sleep well.
Tomorrow we return to school to start the 2015 part of the school year. In the third week of January we will be halfway through second trimester and teachers will be completing progress reports.
Ms. Lamb has just finished posting before vacation grades. Note that I am grading each journal entry individually so students and parents can see exactly what is missing (although I don't post until the weekend.) I will have all students log into their schoology accounts tomorrow so I know everyone knows their status and how to access it. (Please remember that I make mistakes sometimes, so let me know if I forgot to update something or when haywire on my number inputting.)
Most weeks (but not all) we have a word study packet due that we complete mostly in class. This will become a homework assignment eventually, although we continue to do the first sort in class on Monday or Tuesday (this week we will start on Tuesday.)
In social studies, we have been devoting ourselves to our Vermont History Day projects which will be due on or about January 15th (more exact date coming soon.) So far students have turned in notes (last trimester) and completed an organizer called Mad Lib. This is posted in the social studies grades.
This trimester's LA writing focus is informational (or report) writing. Very soon, we will start reading together The History of Us The First Americans. This will culminate in an individual study of one group of Native Americans and the completion of a codex and report.
See you kids tomorrow. Sleep well.
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