Hello Parents!
** Announcements:
- 6th grade Dayton field trip is this Friday! Chaperones, please meet in my room at or just after 7:45 A.M. We will leave right at 8:00 A.M.
- Student Council Penny Wars starts tomorrow (3/15-3/25)!
- Book orders due this Thursday, 3/17!
- Donations are needed for the Seder Meal. We appreciate any items or help that you can provide. Here is the Sign-Up Genius link: http://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c094ca8ad2aa4ff2-7thannual
Homework this week: No reading logs this week, due to 6th grade field trip on Friday. Cumulative vocabulary test is over three lists (see below) and it will be on Thursday this week.
6th: Begin & finish project (in class) for, Number the Stars, by Lois Lowry.
Skills for the week: story elements and expository essay writing.
LA – Continue practice with the EXPAND method in writing.
Vocab lists this week: Lists 12, 13, & 14 (Shakespeare, Blends, Weather)
7th:
LA – Continued practice with the EXPAND method in writing.
Blue Rdg Grp – Poetry unit. “The Rider”, “Seal”, and “Haiku” poems. Skills for the week: infinitives & infinitive phrases, drawing conclusions.
Vocab lists this week: Popular SAT Words, To a Degree, What We’d Like Said About Us
8th:
LA – Continued practice with the EXPAND method in writing.
Yellow Rdg Grp – Poetry unit. “Cat”, “Silver”, and “Your World” poems. Skills for the week: identifying unfamiliar words, suffix -ous.
White Rdg Grp – Poetry unit. “Thumbprint”, “The Drum”, “Ring Out, Wild Bells” poems. Skills for the week: sound devices, subject complements.
Vocab lists this week: Social Studies Class, Science Class, All About the Senses