MONDAY – Grammar Growth/6.11/Grammar, spelling, word order problems
TUESDAY – Editing/Revising papers/6.11/Peer editing and revising ECR’s about Exploring Fandom
WEDNESDAY – Editing/Revising papers/6.11/Peer editing and revising ECR’s about Exploring Fandom
***EARLY RELEASE DAY!!!
THURSDAY – Short Constructed Response/6.11/group work to create SCR answers to various writing prompts
FRIDAY – Vocabulary Review/6.2/ELA specific vocabulary; quiz will be on March 5th.
MONDAY – President’s Day (No School)
TUESDAY – Extended Constructed Response(AKA: Essays)/6.11/Editing and finishing ECR for STAAR best practices
WEDNESDAY – Reading Benchmark (Afternoon classes will edit and correct our ECR essays.
THURSDAY – Math Benchmark (Afternoon classes will edit and correct our ECR essays.)
FRIDAY – New Vocabulary/6.9/Introduce and practice new Vocabulary Unit 3(back of the page #11 – 20)
CAN’T WAIT TO SEE SOME OF YOU AT THE BALLPARK!!!
Good Afternoon,
Today my classes did a really AWESOME and NEAT community service by sending E-Valentines to patients at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. They used their school gmail accounts and I told them to check them over the next few weeks in case they get a returned response from one of the patients. I have done this in the past with my classes and some of them have gotten responses. A few of them have even continued to correspond with these young people over the years.
I have attached the link below in case you wanted to send one. It is a very simple process that is greatly appreciated by these families.
All the students were given a new vocabulary list on Monday. They were given a paper copy and it is also in Google Classroom.
We are having a Quiz over the first 10 words (argumentative text – evidence) on Monday, February 12th.
These need to be studied a few minutes each night. We are going over them each day in class, but I have told
all the 6th graders that this is a homework assignment.
Thanks
MONDAY – Vocabulary List 3/6.10/ Introduce these new words; finish “Creative Writing Assignment”
TUESDAY – Read “Stay or Go” endings/6.10/Read or “Stay or Go” story endings to our classes.
WEDNESDAY – Grammar review/6.10/Introduce all 8 parts of speech and identify them in sentences. Group activity.
THURSDAY –Text Evidence/6.11/”Rise of Fandom” & “Is Fandom Good For You” – writing answers using text evidence from two paired texts. Step by step process of how to create well written sentences that use text evidence.
FRIDAY – Kahoot Vocabulary Review/6.10/We will play Kahoots to review the vocabulary words.
Today is the end of the 1st Three Week Grading period of the 3rd Nine Weeks.
I have updated all of my grades and told all of my students to check Student Portal.
Any assignment with a grade of a zero needs to be completed and turned in ASAP.
Many of these assignments are on Google Classroom and can be completed anywhere that
wi-fi is available. I am in my room every morning at 7:30, if anyone needs help.
FYI – If you look on Student/Parent Portal and see a grade of a “O” that means the assignment has NOT been turned in to me. I give students that have been absent at least one day for each day absent to make up missing assignments. I have noticed over the last few “icy” and “rainy” days that many of my students are in the “I don’t want to do anything at home” mode. In my 36 years of education, I have noticed that “Spring Fever” comes earlier and earlier every year. ANY assignment for me can be made up or corrected and turned in to me to be graded. I am in my room at 7:30 every morning, if any student needs help. I will GLADLY stay after school on Monday or Thursday and help any student that needs help.
Monday – Community Outreach/6.8/Writing Heart Haiku poems
Tuesday – Growth Mindset/Mrs. Velde is going to teach my classes
Wednesday – EARLY RELEASE DAY – Stay or Go?/6.10/Reading and editing with a peer partner our conclusions
Thursday – Stay or Go?/6.10/Reading and editing with a peer partner our conclusions
Friday – Stay or Go/6.11/Reading our conclusions to the “Stay or Go?” that we wrote and edited.
Monday – Grammar Review/6.9/Review subject/verb agreement & fact/opinion
Tuesday – Stay or Go/6.11/Writing an ending to a story from SCOPE using a graphic organizer to plan the answer
Wednesday -Stay or Go/6.11/Writing an ending to a story from SCOPE using a graphic organizer to plan the answer
Thursday -Stay or Go/6.11/Writing an ending to a story from SCOPE using a graphic organizer to plan the answer
Friday -Stay or Go/6.11/Share the endings to the stories that we have written
***Our emphasis for the next few months will be on organization of written responses, both short and long, to help with the writing portion of the STAAR test in April.
We are trying to get our DUCKS IN A ROW since it is duck weather all week!!!!
Monday: No School – Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
Tuesday: Inference Writing/6.10b/We will be using an article on SCOPE magazine to practice using inference.
Wednesday: Vocabulary/6.11/Introduce new vocabulary and use it in our writing
Thursday: Fables/6.11C/Read some well known fables and rewrite them to make them modern. Draw one illustration that goes with your fable.
Friday: Fables/6.11C/Read some well known fables and rewrite them to make them modern. Draw one illustration that goes with your fable.
I put the schedule for this week below, in case you have not seen it or needed a reminder.
WOMS FALL 2023 Early Release Schedule
MONDAY, DECEMBER 18… 1- 4, Lunch, 7th (Sci exam), 5th, 6th
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 19…….. 1,3,5
WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 20………… 2,4,6
| Monday | TUESDAY | WEDNESDAY |
| 1st…7:55 – 8:40 | 1st… 7:55 – 9:15 | 2nd… 7:55 – 9:15 |
| 2nd… 8:44 – 9:29 | 3rd… 9:20 – 9:25 | 3rd… 9:20 – 9:25 |
| 3rd…9:33 – 10:18 | 3rd… 9:30 – 10:50 | 4th… 9:30 – 10:50 |
| 4th… 10:22 – 11:12 | 5th… 10:55 – 12:15 | 6th… 10:55 – 12:15 |
| Lunch | ||
| 7th… 11:50 – 1:05 (exam) | ||
| 5th… 1:10 – 1:55 | ||
| 6th… 2:00 – 2:45 | ||
| UIL Celebration… 2:45-3:45 |
Attendance Period for Exams… 9:20 – 9:25
Science and Social Studies will be the only 2 semester exams. Reading and Math Benchmarks will count as semester exams.
8th grade students who attend high school for classes will stay here Monday and report to the high school on Tuesday or Wednesday.
Reading, English, and Math classes will spend the extra class time reviewing the benchmark.
