Projects: Students continue to build a 3D model of a structure that uses simple machines to complete a simple task. They will have the rest of the week to work on their structures during projects. This is a change from our original schedule. We will give the students 2 extra days so they can refine their products!
8th Grade Reading: Today we watched Flocabulary and discussed the stories from the week. Students have a Flocabulary page due in class tomorrow. They must write the summaries of the stories by using main idea, details and complete sentences.
Tomorrow we will start To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee. We will begin by researching Harper Lee and gaining an understanding of her as an author and how her own experiences may have led to her writing this novel.
7th Grade Reading: Today we watched Flocabulary and discussed the stories from the week. Students have a Flocabulary page due in class tomorrow, Tuesday, January 26. They must write the summaries of the stories by using main idea, details and complete sentences.
Throughout the week we will discuss the characters who are introduced in The Outsiders and add character traits to a shared document we started today.
Poetry annotations due Wednesday, January 27 for 7th grade for the poem "Nothing Gold Can Stay."
Writing: Students are finishing up their expressive/reflective writing on their favorite mistake. This group has some serious talent with narrative writing! We will finish these then go back to more informative/expository writing. We continue to work on IXL lessons and Root of the Week.
We will have an auction next Thursday, February 4. Please send in items for the auction if you are able. Thank you!
Monday, January 25, 2016
Tuesday, January 19, 2016
Tuesday, January 19, 2016
Projects: Students finished blueprints of prototype demonstrating simple machines to perform a simple task and will begin building tomorrow.
8th Grade Reading: Students will take their Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde final tomorrow. They have been preparing and should have all of their notes ready to go. I plan to give them a few minutes more to prepare before they start. If they don't finish, they will have time to do so on Thursday.
7th Grade Reading: Flocabulary! Students watched and read about current events by listening to and viewing the "Week in Rap". Homework due tomorrow--2 pages of "Week in Rap" We will start a new book this week. We will be reading S.E. Hinton's The Outsiders.
Writing: We are moving into another narrative titled "My Favorite Mistake." Students will recall a time when they made a decision that resulted in a less than desirable consequence. They will end with a reflection on what they learned and what their thoughts are today.
There will be no Valentine's Day parties at school this year. Please do not allow students to bring class Valentines to school.
8th Grade Reading: Students will take their Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde final tomorrow. They have been preparing and should have all of their notes ready to go. I plan to give them a few minutes more to prepare before they start. If they don't finish, they will have time to do so on Thursday.
7th Grade Reading: Flocabulary! Students watched and read about current events by listening to and viewing the "Week in Rap". Homework due tomorrow--2 pages of "Week in Rap" We will start a new book this week. We will be reading S.E. Hinton's The Outsiders.
Writing: We are moving into another narrative titled "My Favorite Mistake." Students will recall a time when they made a decision that resulted in a less than desirable consequence. They will end with a reflection on what they learned and what their thoughts are today.
There will be no Valentine's Day parties at school this year. Please do not allow students to bring class Valentines to school.
Monday, January 11, 2016
Monday, January 11, 2016
Projects: Students were put into groups of 4 for their simple machines project. Everyone should be brainstorming ideas and items that can be brought from home to construct an 8 step machine that performs a simple task.
8th Reading: We are trying to finish Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Students will collect evidence of duality for their final and take the final on Thursday.
7th Reading: Finished Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde today. Tomorrow students will work on collecting evidence of duality from the novella, and choose an example of duality in real life to discuss and give examples of. We also watched Flocabulary's "Week in Rap." Students have one page of Flocabulary homework due tomorrow.
7th and 8th poetry annotations due Wednesday
8th Reading: We are trying to finish Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Students will collect evidence of duality for their final and take the final on Thursday.
7th Reading: Finished Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde today. Tomorrow students will work on collecting evidence of duality from the novella, and choose an example of duality in real life to discuss and give examples of. We also watched Flocabulary's "Week in Rap." Students have one page of Flocabulary homework due tomorrow.
7th and 8th poetry annotations due Wednesday
Monday, January 4, 2016
Monday, January 4, 2016
Happy New Year Bighorn Families! I hope everyone enjoyed a wonderful holiday break. Now, back to reality. :)
Projects: We started a new science project today. Students will be researching Rube Goldberg and designing, in groups, an 8 step prototype using simple machines to accomplish a simple task. Today we put together the trap in Mousetrap games, watched videos that demonstrated a series of simple machines working to accomplish tasks and went over the project and some of the guidelines. This project should be a lot of fun and the students seem excited about it.
7th and 8th Grade Reading: Flocabulary's Week in Rap featured the end of 2015 with top stories from the year. We spend A LOT of class time discussing and reading the stories, and 7th graders took a quiz. Eighth grade will take their quiz tomorrow.
Writing: Root of the week is "geo." Students worked on origin and sample sentences using words with the root "geo" in them. We also wrote freely, which students always love to do. We are going to go deeper into reflective writing this week and do IXL to learn to recognize sentences with vague pronouns.
Happy January!!!
Projects: We started a new science project today. Students will be researching Rube Goldberg and designing, in groups, an 8 step prototype using simple machines to accomplish a simple task. Today we put together the trap in Mousetrap games, watched videos that demonstrated a series of simple machines working to accomplish tasks and went over the project and some of the guidelines. This project should be a lot of fun and the students seem excited about it.
7th and 8th Grade Reading: Flocabulary's Week in Rap featured the end of 2015 with top stories from the year. We spend A LOT of class time discussing and reading the stories, and 7th graders took a quiz. Eighth grade will take their quiz tomorrow.
Writing: Root of the week is "geo." Students worked on origin and sample sentences using words with the root "geo" in them. We also wrote freely, which students always love to do. We are going to go deeper into reflective writing this week and do IXL to learn to recognize sentences with vague pronouns.
Happy January!!!
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)