MONDAY – THURSDAY: We will be doing a BRIEF Math STAAR Review lesson at the beginning of each of my classes.
MONDAY/TUESDAY: Creative Writing Stories and Illustrations/6.11/Writing short stories based upon the characters and
year they drew.
WEDNESDAY: Journal Entry/6.10/My Plans For Easter Break
THURSDAY: Parts of Speech/6.10/Identifying parts of s
peech in sentences and completing an activity based on the answers.
HAVE AN AWESOME EASTER WEEKEND!
SEE YA ON TUESDAY!
STAAR Test this Tuesday! NO MATTER how it turns out – YOUR VALUE IS NOT TIED TO YOUR RESULTS!
Monday: ELA Test Review/We will discuss one last time testing strategies, dealing with test anxieties, and what is expected of them on testing day.
Tuesday: STAAR Test Day
Wednesday: Creative Writing Assignment with Illustration/6.10, 6.11/Students will draw cards for the setting, hero, villain, and cartoon character that they must include in their Creative Short Story.
Thursday: Creative Writing Assignment with Illustration (continued)
Friday: Creative Writing with Illustration(continued)
***Almost every day I will be doing a little bit of MATH fun with my classes, to help Mrs. Wilson out as we prepare for the Math STAAR. It might be a math problem, multiplication drills, or a math game.
Monday – Finish ELA DMAC Test, Extended Constructed Response practice/6.10. 6.11/Practicing our ECR strategies to prepare for the STAAR test on April 8th.
Tuesday – Correcting/Editing ELA DMAC Test, Extended Constructed Response practice/6.10. 6.11/Practicing our ECR strategies to prepare for the STAAR test on April 8th. The students who do not need to correct their responses will be preparing to share their DREAM JOB/CAREERS Essays that they prepared for an assignment a few weeks ago.
Wednesday – Breaking Down the ECR Strategies/6.10, 6.11/We will be discussing all the parts of an ECR and how we can improve our responses.
Thursday/Friday – DREAM JOB or CAREER/6.12/In the Think Lab the students will be sharing their essays and visual aids with their classes. We will be using the new “toy” that Mrs. Kelley has in the Think Lab. It is a really neat interactive and touch screen computer screen that I want the students to learn to use.
HAPPY ST. PATRICK’S DAY! 
MONDAY – TUESDAY: Extended Constructed Response(6.10./6.11): We will be reviewing the parts of a GOOD ECR response, aka essay, and discussing how to make a good score on the STAAR Test ECR quesions. We will be writing on Google Classroom about Spring Break.
WEDNESDAY: Revise and Edit(6.10): I will be giving them a copy of their written ECR to be edited and then corrected online.
THURSDAY: Journal Day(6.10): The students will be given a Journal Prompt to write an ECR about.
FRIDAY: Sentence Bad Guys(6.10): Introducing the 4 Sentence Bad Guys and how to find and fix their mistakes.
***PLEASE encourage your son or daughter to work on IXL Writing Strategies/Grammar & Mechanics Recommendations at least 15 minutes each night. IXL will assess what your son/daughter needs to work on based upon their diagnostic test that they took in January. ALL of this will help them with the STAAR test in April.
MONDAY: President’s Day – No School
TUESDAY: Review for MOCK STAAR/6.10/Writing an SCR to practice for the MOCK STAAR.
WEDNESDAY: ELA MOCK STAAR test
THURSDAY: Take a look at our test’s answers and make corrections as needed.
FRIDAY: ELA 2025 Journal Entry 2/6.11/After watching a brief video, we will write about what we saw.
*** I was born and raised in Longview, but I lived in Florida for 17 years and trying to explain TEXAS weather to them was EXACTLY like this Dr. Seuss meme that I found – SO TRUE!
Monday: Revise and Edit Review/6.10/We will be reviewing for a short DMAC test on Thursday in preparation for the benchmark and STAAR.
Tuesday: Rules of Debate/6.11/We will discuss, practice, and go over the rules/how a basic debate works.
Wednesday: Revise and Edit Test on DMAC/6.10/We will take a 15 question practice test on DMAC in preparation for the benchmark and STAAR.
Thursday: Debates/6.12/Debates in the Think Lab.
Friday: Revise and Edit Test on DMAC corrections/6.10/We will discuss the DMAC test and work on corrections.
THIS WEEK: Revising and Editing; SCR
Student Expectation – 6.10C: Revise drafts for clarity, development, organization, style, word choice, and sentence variety.
6.10D.i: complete complex sentences with subject-verb agreement and avoidance of splices, run-ons, and fragments;
6.10D.ix: correct spelling, including commonly confused terms such as its/it’s, affect/effect, there/their/they’re, and to/two/too.
| DAY | ACTIVITY – Reteach/Small Groups/Peer Help | |
| Mon |
a.) What is the question asking me to do? b.) Which answer is obviously NOT the correct choice? c.) Why did I select the answer choice that I selected? Reason through in student led discussions/come together to discuss with entire class. |
6.10D.ii; 6.10C |
| Tues |
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6.10C; 6.10D.i; 6.10D.ix |
| Wed |
over a non-fiction topic |
6.10C; 6.10D.i; 6.10D.ix |
| Thurs |
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6.10C; 6.10D.i; 6.10D.ix |
| Fri |
**I will be at a writing workshop at Region VII. |
6.10C; 6.10D.i; 6.10D.ix |
Monday: Teacher’s Work Day – Student Holiday
Tuesday: ESTEEM Survey – ONLY for students that participated in ALL of these health lessons.
Wednesday: Edit/Revise/Correct – we will take a look at our constructed responses to the DMAC test from December 16th – 17th
Thursday: Journal – we will start a new online Journal on Google Classroom. The students will be given a writing prompt.
Friday: Detective Hanlon Mystery – students will read together in class the mystery and answer the questions about this mystery/Flocabulary Review Lessons to complete online.
MONDAY: ESTEEM Lesson 13
TUESDAY: ESTEEM Lesson 14
WEDNESDAY: Extended Constructed Response practice using Curipod/6.10/Using a lesson created on Curipod we will be practicing writing an Extended Constructed Response using our R.A.C.E.S. Writing Strategy
THURSDAY: ECR/6.10/We will be discussing how to improve our responses from Wednesday’s assignment
FRIDAY: ECR Test on DMAC/6.10/We will use the same short story and question to answer a ECR on DMAC
***Next week we will be taking our Semester Exam in both Reading and ELA class on DMAC. That is why we have been doing at least one a quiz/test every two weeks during ELA class. It will be taken in both Mrs. Owens’ reading class and my class.
THERE ARE ONLY 17 SHOPPING DAYS UNTIL CHRISTMAS, BUT REMEMBER…