January 5-9

Welcome Back! I hope you had a great Christmas and Happy New Year!

6th Grade: We will be taking a spelling pre-test and reviewing antonyms and creating compound predicates. We will practice summarizing a text and writing the concluding paragraph to our multi-paragraph report. This week the 6th grade will be taking the MAPS testing.

7th Grade: Students will be taking a spelling pre-test and creating compound sentences. We will be reading "Kites: Shapes and Uses" and "Are Chimps People Too?"  We will also be reviewing possessives.

8th Grade: Students will be taking a spelling pre-test and reviewing antonyms, synonyms and attributes. They will also be creating compound sentences with compound subjects and predicates. They will be reading "Art at Home and in Caves" and "Are Chimps People Too?"

December 15-19

ALL READING CLASSES

We will be reading article out of the ACTION magazine. Two of the articles are about marijuana and another one is talking about taking selfies. Starting on Thursday we will be reading "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" and then watching the movie. We will be comparing (similar) and contrasting (differences) between the book and the movie.

Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

December 8-12

Canned Food Drive: Bring in cans to your homeroom to help those in need. This is a homeroom competition. :)

6th: Students will be taking a phonics assessment and a spelling assessment this week. They will be completing an informal outline and reviewing synonyms. We will be reading "Earth to Echo" out of the ACTION magazine.

7th: Students will learn how to answer multiple choice questions and create their own. They will take a phonics and spelling assessment. They will also read "Earth to Echo" out of the ACTION magazine.

8th: Students will learn how to write an introduction to an opinion essay and complete an informal opinion outline.. They will also be taking a phonics and spelling assessment. They will be reading "Earth to Echo" out of the ACTION magazine.