Sixth graders will experience their first Thursday afternoon pep rally this week. Most of my student’s brain switches will be in the off mode by 9:00. Therefore, I am moving this week’s progress check to Friday. Students who review a little every night–10-15 minutes for each of the 4 subjects– do far better on comprehensive […]

This week we will be studying the elements of fiction and non-fiction from last week’s list and adding conflict, first person point of view, third person point of view, and narrator word parts: ization, meta, morph and bene Home Practice for the following afternons due the next day Friday: read and work on project Monday: […]

On 8/14 students visited the media center to check out a book for Independent Reading. This month’s Independent Reading Project is a book jacket worth 100 points. Students were given specific instructions in written, oral and visual forms. This is a student project and students were instructed to do their own projects. It is super […]

My planning time is from 8:15 until 8:45 am. The rest of the day I am teaching classes so I may not respond to e-mails as quickly as I did in the past. If you have an emergency and need me to phone you, send an e-mail with your number and I will try to […]

Are you excited? I am! Helena Middle rocks. I will see you Thursday morning in the cafeteria. We have completely revised our ELA classes. It is going to be a great year.