Today we focused on writing strong, catchy leads for our persuasive essays. We also hit a climactic moment in The Outsiders (the fire in the church!). Some students still owe reading logs.
Today we spent the class reviewing the rules for our new laptops. The students will be receiving them tomorrow!
The students are continuing their work on dividing decimals. They do have 12 problems to do for homework tonight.
The students have been taking a test on The Outsiders for the past two days.
Grades for those will be entered in the gradebook by the end of the week. Tomorrow we will start on unit on persuasive essay writing, focus on getting ideas down on paper.
The students worked hard this week on multiplying decimals. Yesterday we began dividing decimals. Today we continue work on Sunshine Math. Sunshine Math is a worksheet of any and all math skills built into word problems. They are usually fun word problems that get the students thinking and get them to [...]
We are already about 1/4 of the way through The Outsiders. The students appear to love this book. Each day they beg me to read more. Some students are even being sneaky and reading ahead.
Homework that was due by the end of this week:
DOL 12
Reading Log 1
Picture Writing
Next week we will continue [...]
Welcome back to school. We are starting the school year right up with decimals! Get excited. Make sure all of the students have a notebook and pencil everyday for class.
Welcome to the first week of school!!!! We are starting the year right up with a unit on The Outsiders. This book promises to be exciting and interesting for all. We started reading it yesterday and the kids seemed hooked right away.
A weekly reading log is due on 9/17.