This week, students received a new set of ten, SAT vocabulary words and definitions. By using the context and definitions, students completed sentences with these ten words. Students also reviewed prepositional phrases and their use in context by completing a few pages in their “Easy Grammar” workbooks. Finally, students created a drawing and labeled it to show relationship most prepositions express toward a noun. Students will vote on the winners of the best drawings!
Mrs. Foster
This week, students practiced spelling and SAT vocabulary words to get ready for the quiz. We learned and practiced hand/body motions to make the vocabulary words “come alive” and easier to understand. Students also reviewed prepositional phrases and their use in context by completing a few pages in their “Easy Grammar” workbooks. Finally, students created a drawing and labeled it to show relationship most prepositions express toward a noun. Students will vote on the winners of the best drawings!
Mrs. Foster
This week, all middle school students learned how to use the SRA Reading Kits, which contain numerous short stories or articles categorized according to ability level. (There is a Kit for each grade.) Students had the opportunity to select a story/article of their choice. They read it and answered comprehension and word study questions. Finally, students used the answer key cards to self-grade. The goal was for each student to complete two stories at their personal, reading ability level.
Mrs. Foster
Eighth graders practiced using the 10 SAT Vocabulary words in their own sentences. Students also orally presented their “Shoebox Speeches.” Each student presented 10 items that were unlike them in some way. They had to explain why each item didn’t represent them. Students were graded on volume, clarity, eye contact, length of time (2-3 minutes), and content (explanations).
Mrs. Foster
Seventh graders practiced using the 10 SAT Vocabulary words in their own sentences. Students also orally presented their “Shoebox Speeches.” Each student showed 10 items and explained the personal importance of the item. Students were graded on volume, clarity, eye contact, length of time (2-3 minutes), and content (reasons).
Mrs. Foster
Grammar: Last year 5E sang their prepositions. This year 5E will rock the verbs with our new hit “Verbs will, verbs will, rock you.” It goes to the beat of the song we will rock you and sings like this – Helping verbs in your face. You learn them with grace. You see them in grammar all over the place.
Mrs. Emestica
Math Bridges: We may not be able to build the Wall of China but we did build the Great Wall of Base Ten. We all collaborated in cutting base Ten Squares to build a wall that measures 1,000,000 centimeter square. Basically we learned the formula for the area of a square which is a = l x w.
Mrs. Emestica
Welcome to 5E. I hope you had restful summer. We have a lot of great things for this up coming year. To begin with make sure you read all about it in our class project “All About Me”, on our bulletin board. We tell all about our favorite hobbies and ourselves.
Mrs. Emestica
Sixth grade students received their first list of 10 spelling words and 5 SAT Vocabulary words and definitions. Students also wrote final drafts of their acrostic poems and orally presented them to the class, along with 3 props.
Mrs. Foster
This week’s Do Now focus was on Main Idea. Students read and wrote down a short paragraph and underlined the topic sentence. In the SRA booklets, students read a practice story called “Mother Jones” and answered comprehension and word study questions. They practiced self-grading and scoring as well. For homework in Taking the High Road, two stories with questions were completed. Mrs. Foster