Thursday's class

Homework for the weekend: Citizenship logs are due on Monday. Logs can be reprinted from the following link: http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dcbdzc94_75dg37pcf7

Wednesday's Class

Today in class students were given a spelling test to determine their grade level for spelling. Parents can see students results by contacting Ms. R or coming to parent teacher interviews in November.

For second period we went to the library to begin an interview research project on an important person from the Renaissance. We will present these to the class late next week or early of the following week.

Tuesday's Class

Today in class we watched a video called Renaissance Culture and Math. Students wrote down 15 points from the video and handed it in for marks.

Students finished their posters for Language arts on Metaphors, similes, personification, etc. and began working on chapter 2 questions when they were finished.

Monday's Class

Today in class we watched a documentary on Hannah Taylor who is a 12 year old and is helping the homeless. After the video the class brainstormed about ways that they could make positive changes to society to improve it and boost their marks on their citizenship logs.

For our second period we marked our fill in the blanks activity from last week and then we took notes on the Scientists, Mathematicians, and Writers from the Renaissance.

PLEASE NOTE: There will be no school for students on Friday as it a Professional Learning Day for teachers.

Wednesday's Class

Today in class we went to exchange our library books. We came back and watched a Renaissance video called Art, Music and Literature and answered questions to go with it.

For our second period we worked on fill in the blank activities to go with page 57-68 for Our Worldview textbook.

Tomorrow Chapter 2 vocabulary is due and the first page of fill in the blanks handout.

Tuesday's Class

Today in class we looked at my reading blog website and students chose which novels they wanted to read for their novel study. The novel study will begin next week.

Reading Blog: http://hum8readingblog.blogspot.com/

For second period we worked on Chapter 2 Vocabulary. This is due Thursday October 16.

Friday's Class

Today in class we talked about the election, students completed the student vote in the library 2nd period today. We also listened to chapter 14, 15, and 16 from I, Coriander on CD.

Ch2 B-Thrild's were due today, students who did not complete them have until Monday to get them in.

Citizenship Log- We decided as a class to extend the deadline for the citizenship log until Monday October 27. That means Students have an extra week to get all those tasks done and completed. Don't forget to get signatures for activities and fill in reflections before handing in your log.

Thursday's class

Today we focused on the upcoming election. We worked on our election booklet in the classroom for the first period then went to the computer lab to continue our research. The student vote will be taking place on Friday in our library.

Wednesday's Class

I apologize for not keeping up on my blog this week. Today we went to the library and did our weekly book exchange. Chapter tests were marked and handed back. The class average was 79.5%, great work everyone! We started chapter 2 B-Thrild and students decided that this Friday was the best due date to hand in this assignment. Students worked on Language arts taking notes and making posters on metaphors, similes, personification, etc.

Monday's Class

Today students were given new logs for their Citizenship logs and Reflections. They are due October 20 and are for work completed between October 1-20.

We also spent time writing multiple choice questions which were used to play the Reiffen Review game. Chapter 1 Test is tomorrow.

Thursday's Class

Today I asked students for their Interim Progress Report with a parent signature, they are due tomorrow.

We spent our two classes today on Language Arts. We wrote in Journals for 10 minutes using the Stream of Consciousness writing method. Next we looked at examples of student work and used the following PowerPoint to learn how to edit work when Peer-Editing.

Peer Editing PowerPoint: http://www.readwritethink.org/lesson_images/lesson786/tutorial.pps

Homework for tonight is to study for the Chapter 1 test next Tuesday. Tomorrow we will be listening to I, Coriander in class.