I miss my school family. My kiddies are in my thoughts and prayers. I love teaching 6th grade English. It gives me great joy to see students walking through the door to their future as the ancient Chinese proverb tells them to. I love to see them turning on that light switch of Intellectual Illumination. […]
Posts from January 2015
On leave week of 1-23-1/30
I will be out of the classroom next week. I worked for several years with Mrs. J. Byers and she is an amazing ELA teacher. She is coming out of retirement to bless my students. I have my grade sheets with me and will enter the last 2 test grades so that your students will […]
Week beginning Friday 1-16
I was going to read “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” today with my students because our writing workshop next week is on letter writing. However, for most of my students it would be too intense and the reading level is too high. That does not mean I don’t think it would be of value to […]
Week beginning Friday January 9
DRAMA–We are concentrating on the elements of drama this week as we begin the play, The Phantom Tollbooth. In addition we will begin diagramming simple sentences. Friday: GWB Ex. 2 p.45 Monday: Read 705-715 Tuesday: Write 1 Brain Burp—context clue filled– sentence for each element of drama on page 692 and 694 . The elements […]
Welcome to your 2nd Semester at HMS
One of the posters on my wall says ” Teachers open the door but you must enter by yourself”. Hopefully you have made a grand entrance into your middle school years. If not, there is still time for you to enter without assistance from the rear. You will need to get your binder organized by […]