All students present today were given the opportunity to turn in the projects that were due today.  In addition all students were given a written copy of the “Picture Sparked Memory” assignment due next week. Copy of assignment: Picture Sparked Memory    Herbert assignment Every picture tells a story.  Some picture sparked memories are of past […]

The Greeting Card Book report featuring the Protagonist-Antagonist poem on the back page is due on Wednesday at the beginning of class. In vocabulary this week we are studying prefixes and suffixes for big and small.  Concentrating on Lesson 24 in the Vocabulary Builder, we will study booklet, leaflet, megabyte, megalith, megaphone, microorganism, microwave, novelette, […]

There is no school on Monday.  On Thursday students were given lesson  sheets for next week’s vocabulary test.  They all contain the roots naut, naus, nav+ relating to sea, ships, travels and terr, terra,geo= land; earth  The test will be on Friday along with the test for Part One of Daniel’s Story    by Carol Matas. All students […]

We will begin our study of the historical novel,  Daniel’s Story by         Carol Matas this week.  Students may bring a personal copy or use the classroom copy,.  In the past I have found it beneficial for the student to have their own copy but it is not required.  Test on 1-17     -Fables, Novels, vis, vid […]

We will be using the Vocabulary Builder workbook that is on our  Glencoeliterature book’s web site.  We will be using 20 of the lessons.  It is not necessary for students to have a hard copy but, if as a caretaker you would like your child to have a personal copy,  they are available for purchase […]

Welcome 6th graders and their caregivers to the second half of the first year of your middleschool experience.  Thursday is the first day to focus on your target goals that you set in August.  Perhaps you would like to set new goals after experiencing your first semester of middleschool.  My classroom will remain open Monday, […]