February 17-21

6th Grade: We will be reading the story "The Vast Sky" and summarizing it. We will also be reading "Gemini: The Twins" and learning the vocabulary words and taking a quiz.

7th Grade: Students will be able to distinguish between fact and an opinion. They will also be able to write sentences with compound subjects. We will be reading "Newspaper Connections," "Web of Lies," and "Web Wins."

8th Grade: Students will learn words of degrees of meanings. We will read the story "Early Olympic Speeders" and learn the meanings of different suffixes.

February 3-7

6th:We will be reading a story about remarkable twins and having a vocabulary quiz. We will also be having a spelling test on Friday.

7th: We will be reading the "World Wide Web." and taking a vocabulary quiz and answering comprehension questions. We will also be taking a spelling test on Friday.

8th: We will be reviewing what analogies are. We will also read "Quest for a Continent." We will be taking a progress writing test to see how you have improved in your writing.

January 27-31 2nd Semester

Welcome to the Beginning of 2nd Semester!

 

 

6th: This week we will be reading "Facts About Twins" and learning about pronouns. Do you have twins in your family? Do you know any famous twins?

 

7th: This week we will be reading "The World Wide Web." We also will be focusing on distinguishing between facts and opinions.

 

8th: This week we are going to be reading "The First Transcontinental Railroad." We also will be writing compound sentences.

 



January 20-24

Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day!

I can't believe the end of the first semester is here. Make sure you turn in all your assignments. :)

January 13-17

6th: We will be re-reading "Africa Digs" and completing different activities. We will also practice answering multiple choice and open ended questions and learn how to put events in sequential order.

7th: We will be completing a writing progress indicator, End of Book A Content Mastery assessment and begin the LRS assessment. These assessments will show what we have learned in Book A.

8th: We will be reading "Mysteries of Antarctica" and completing different activities that go along with the reading. We will also focus on syllable types and prefixes.

December 16-20

6th: We will be reading the story "Africa Digs." We will focus on how to answer multiple choice questions and practice putting events in order.

7th: We will be writing a paragraph and reviewing prepositions. We will also be reading the story "Coming Clean About Toxic Pollution"

8th: We will be writing New Year's Resolution and taking a test on prepositional phrase. We will also be reading a story about Roberto Clemente.

Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

December 9-13

6th Grade: This week we will be working on reading fluently. We will be reading out loud to each other and practice our phrasing. We will also be starting to read the story "Africa Digs" and reviewing antonyms.

7th Grade: This week we are going to be reading about Rachel Carson. We will also be completing an informal outline to write a paragraph about Rachel Carson as well take a spelling test on Friday. Please, study your words.

8th Grade: This week we are going to be reading "A Special Kind of Athlete." We will also be learning the prefix 'anti' and taking a spelling test on Friday. Study your words.