MUR 7th and 8th: This month students will be reading James Swason's Chasing Lincoln's Killer. We will dive into persuasive nonfiction while continuing to focus on claim, basis, and elements of nonfiction. In spelling we continue our study in Words Their Way. We will be working to find the literal meanings of words by breaking apart the prefix, root and suffix and then relating the literal meaning to its connotative meaning. In grammar, we will be working on predicate pronouns.
MUR 5th and 6th: This month we will be finishing our study of Earthsea. Students continue to focus on theme, text structure and author's craft. We will be digging into these skills by transferring them to our literature circle books.
Tuesday, January 13, 2015
Tuesday, December 16, 2014
Interim Week
Students in both classes have been working hard learning new standards! This week we will take our interim assessments to show what we know!
5th and 6th Grade: Have been working on Literary Nonfiction. We have talked about text structure, comparing and contrasting two works of literature as well as central idea.
7th and 8th Grade: Have been working with persuasive texts. Using persuasive techniques and opposing claims, the middle schoolers tried to persuade the class to eat bugs. It's amazing how nutritious bugs can be! We also dove into scientific texts. This allowed us to focus on text structure and domain specific vocabulary.
Have a GREAT winter break!
5th and 6th Grade: Have been working on Literary Nonfiction. We have talked about text structure, comparing and contrasting two works of literature as well as central idea.
7th and 8th Grade: Have been working with persuasive texts. Using persuasive techniques and opposing claims, the middle schoolers tried to persuade the class to eat bugs. It's amazing how nutritious bugs can be! We also dove into scientific texts. This allowed us to focus on text structure and domain specific vocabulary.
Have a GREAT winter break!
Monday, December 1, 2014
Speech Writing!
Please use the following information to help you write your speech:
http://teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/speech/index.htm
http://teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/speech/index.htm
Monday, October 6, 2014
The Week in Review
7th/8th Grade: This week we finished reading The Boy Who Dared. We spent time discussing author's craft in particular how an author can create emotion or suspense in their writing. In grammar we continued our study of verbs using direct and indirect objects. This should be a review for all students! In spelling the Latin Roots (MAN, SCRIB/SCRIPT, CRED AND FAC) were our focus. Students should focus on the meanings of words as well as the spelling of words
5th/6th Grade: This week we continued reading Flora and Ulysses. It is wonderful to see students laughing and begging to read more each class. This is a wonderful book and I strongly encourage you to ask your child about the book! We began working with idioms this week. Students are creating a book of idioms where they illustrate the literal and figurative meanings of idioms. On Monday, we will be taking a test on idioms.
5th/6th Grade: This week we continued reading Flora and Ulysses. It is wonderful to see students laughing and begging to read more each class. This is a wonderful book and I strongly encourage you to ask your child about the book! We began working with idioms this week. Students are creating a book of idioms where they illustrate the literal and figurative meanings of idioms. On Monday, we will be taking a test on idioms.
Friday, October 3, 2014
This week in MUR we continued our novel studies! Our skill focus for 7th and 8th grade is identifying the three types of irony and in 5th and 6th grade we are working are working on idioms. Students are becoming familiar with commonly used idioms.
In lit circles students continue to have high level discussions with one another by creating their own inferential questions! It is great to see them in action!
In lit circles students continue to have high level discussions with one another by creating their own inferential questions! It is great to see them in action!
Sunday, September 21, 2014
Another Great Week
5th and 6th Grade MUR: This week we began our new book Flora and Ulysses by Newberry award winner Kate DiCamillo. Students are enjoying this unique story and looking for examples of author perspective as well as figurative language. In lit circles, we continue to read our books and practice our habits of discussion.
7th and 8th Grade MUR: This week in A Boy who Dared, students continued to look at theme and find evidence to support the various themes in the book. We're also taking a closer look at setting and how it effects the mood of a story. In spelling we are focusing on Latin Roots. In grammar students worked with verbs.
7th and 8th Grade MUR: This week in A Boy who Dared, students continued to look at theme and find evidence to support the various themes in the book. We're also taking a closer look at setting and how it effects the mood of a story. In spelling we are focusing on Latin Roots. In grammar students worked with verbs.
Monday, September 15, 2014
Week 2
This was an exciting week for our students! This week we took our interim assessment pretest. With the increased rigor of our new tests it was fun to see how much we will be learning this year!
7th and 8th Grade MUR: Students in MUR began reading The Boy who Dared. We spent a lot of time talking about compassion and the traits involved in being a compassionate person. We looked at an overview of WW2 and began relating events to our book.
5th and 6th Grade MUR: Students finished up their interim assessments as well as our unit of reading fictional stories. We began our literature circle books and had an intro lesson on our first anchor book Flora and Ulysses.
7th and 8th Grade MUR: Students in MUR began reading The Boy who Dared. We spent a lot of time talking about compassion and the traits involved in being a compassionate person. We looked at an overview of WW2 and began relating events to our book.
5th and 6th Grade MUR: Students finished up their interim assessments as well as our unit of reading fictional stories. We began our literature circle books and had an intro lesson on our first anchor book Flora and Ulysses.
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