Today begins the second grading period. At conferences next week we will be discussing student progress and mapping strategies for improvement as the year goes on. It is every student's goal to make a full year of progress in class, on benchmarks, and on ISTEP.
This week;
6 Green are doing peer revision and editing of their summary essays. Typed drafts are due Friday. They will then conference with me before submitting final drafts for evaluation. We will be covering Sitton Unit 7 and focusing on frequently confused homophones. We have finished drawing projects illustrating the difference between a word used as a preposition and the same word used as an adverb. Watch for our display in the middle school hallway.
6 Gold are finishing the first hand-written drafts of their summmary paragraphs. We will be covering Sitton Unit 7 and focusing on frequently confused homophones. In grammar we will continue work on recognizing prepositional phrases.
7 Gold has the typed draft of their summary essay due Wednesday. In grammar we continue to work with recognizing and correctly spelling possessive nouns. (This is a tough one.) Sitton this week focuses on words that are similar in spelling but have completely different meanings such as final and finale.
7 White are working collaboratively on their Sitton skill for the week, words that are similar in spelling but have completely different meanings such as final and finale. Typed drafts of their summary paragraphs are due Wednesday. We continue to master the difficult skill of correctly forming possessive nouns.
8 Green have typed drafts of descriptive essays due Wednesday. They will then have one-on-one conferences with me before turning in final drafts for evaluation. Sitton this week focuses on how spellings change when prefixes and suffixes are added to base words. In diagraming, we have moved to recognizing direct objects, indirect objects, predicate nominatives, and predicate adjectives.
8 Gold have typed drafts of descriptive essays due Wednesday. They will then have one-on-one conferences with me before turning in final drafts for evaluation. Sitton this week focuses on how spellings change when prefixes and suffixes are added to base words. In diagraming we are working with adjectives and adverbs.
Both eighth grade groups will have a quiz over 100 Words... 21-40 the after fall break.
God bless,
Miss Richardson
