Friday, September 26, 2014

September 29-October 3

6th: Students will be able to summarize a reading, distinguish between a fact and opinion, read the "World Wide Web" and understand the vocabulary words and read  "The War of the Worlds" in the ACTION magazine.

7th:Students will be able to summarize a reading, write a compound sentence, reading "Telling Time" and understand the vocabulary words and read "The War of the Worlds" in the ACTION magazine.

8th: Students will be able to learn how to define words using context clues, read "It'll Never Work" and understand the vocabulary words and read "The War of the Worlds" in the ACTION magazine.

Friday, September 19, 2014

September 22-26

6th: This week we will be taking a spelling test on high frequency words. We will also be reviewing the function of nouns and reading "The Biggest Shark That Ever Lived" in the ACTION magazine.

7th: This week we will be taking a spelling pre-test on high frequency words. We will also be reading the story "Past Time" and learning about irregular verb forms. We will be reading "The Biggest Shark That Ever Lived" in the ACTION magazine.

8th: This week we will be exploring the word 'invent' reviewing closed syllables and compounds words. We will be reading "Off the Wall" in the textbook and reading "The Biggest Shark That Ever Lived" in the ACTION magazine.

Thursday, September 11, 2014

September 15-19

This week we will be taking placement/baseline assessments to see what the students are struggling in and what they are excelling in. They will cover comprehension, spelling, fluency and writing.

Monday, September 8, 2014

Great First Week

We had a great first week back.

This week the students are going to focus on their "Read All About Me Newspaper" This assignment is worth 25 points and is due September 11th. They will be presenting it to the class. On Friday we will start our pre assessments for the Language! program.

Let's have a great second week! :)