Christmas is almost here! Can you believe it? My room is aglow with the Christmas spirit. :)
Dates to remember:
December 5th: Students are judging the Civics Club Christmas doors. Students are to bring $1 to vote on the doors. The money goes towards a family in need for Christmas.
December 6th: Christmas Concert at the High School
Geography Bee Finals are December 20th.
December 22nd: NO SCHOOL and the start of CHRISTMAS BREAK!
St. Malachy Trivia Night January 20th. Tables are limited so reserve your table now!
Here is what is happening in language arts...
The 8th grade just took their theme unit 4 test today. Monday they are going to give a formal debate. They picked the topic of: cell phones should be used in the classroom. The debate is a substitute for a written essay. Plus they get to practice their presenting skills.
Next week they will start in on poetry, just like the other classes.
The 7th grade start their poetry unit this week as well. Today they worked on lyric poems and analyzed different songs. Yesterday they wrote a free verse poem. From what I have read so far they are pretty good!
The 6th grade is doing a mini unit on imagery, mood, and style. I am hoping this mini unit helps them with sentence structure and describing details rather than stating details. After this little unit they too will move onto poetry.
For every grade I take the week before Christmas off and we focus our attention on Christmas. Don't worry, it is all educational and within Common Core.
The 6th grade will be reading "How the Grinch Stole Christmas". One day we have a Who-balation that is filled with literary games that I create. It's a lot of fun and pictures will be posted!
The 7th grade reads "A Christmas Carol", the play version. We do some fun activities with this one as well.
I am in in limbo about the 8th grade. I had a revelation last night when I was watching A Charlie Brown Christmas. I think we may read that story and compare it to the Bible focusing on the birth of Jesus. It should be interesting but I am excited to try something new and creative while focusing on the real reason for CHRISTmas.
Dates to remember:
December 5th: Students are judging the Civics Club Christmas doors. Students are to bring $1 to vote on the doors. The money goes towards a family in need for Christmas.
December 6th: Christmas Concert at the High School
Geography Bee Finals are December 20th.
December 22nd: NO SCHOOL and the start of CHRISTMAS BREAK!
St. Malachy Trivia Night January 20th. Tables are limited so reserve your table now!
Here is what is happening in language arts...
The 8th grade just took their theme unit 4 test today. Monday they are going to give a formal debate. They picked the topic of: cell phones should be used in the classroom. The debate is a substitute for a written essay. Plus they get to practice their presenting skills.
Next week they will start in on poetry, just like the other classes.
The 7th grade start their poetry unit this week as well. Today they worked on lyric poems and analyzed different songs. Yesterday they wrote a free verse poem. From what I have read so far they are pretty good!
The 6th grade is doing a mini unit on imagery, mood, and style. I am hoping this mini unit helps them with sentence structure and describing details rather than stating details. After this little unit they too will move onto poetry.
For every grade I take the week before Christmas off and we focus our attention on Christmas. Don't worry, it is all educational and within Common Core.
The 6th grade will be reading "How the Grinch Stole Christmas". One day we have a Who-balation that is filled with literary games that I create. It's a lot of fun and pictures will be posted!
The 7th grade reads "A Christmas Carol", the play version. We do some fun activities with this one as well.
I am in in limbo about the 8th grade. I had a revelation last night when I was watching A Charlie Brown Christmas. I think we may read that story and compare it to the Bible focusing on the birth of Jesus. It should be interesting but I am excited to try something new and creative while focusing on the real reason for CHRISTmas.
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