week of March 5th

Reminder that there is no school on Monday, March 5 and Friday, March 9. ISAT testing will be held on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday morning. Seventh graders will continue with an extra day of testing on Monday, March 12. All students need to come to school with sharpened pencils, a calculator, and a silent reading book (in case they finish early). Also a good night sleep and a healthy breakfast is a must!!!

Parent teacher conferences are Thursday, March 8 from 5:00 - 8:00 p.m.

week of January 23, 2012

Third and Fourth period reading RtI is finishing up with the "Rewards" program we began at the beginning of the trimester. Within the last six weeks the students have learned many new strategies to improve their reading fluency, which in return, improves reading comprehension. Every week students have taken fluency tests and every week scores have improved. After the last lesson, we will return to work from the Inside as well as the Bridges to Literature series and apply the new strategies they have learned.

In second period Math, we have finished Chapter 5 of the Mathematics Course 2 book. This Chap included working with integers. Beginning on Monday, we will start our unit on fractions.

Rewards program

In reading RtI third and fourth period, we have completed three lessons in the Rewards program. Students caught on quickly to the daily routine that the program requires. Although, the first two lessons did not include many unknown words, the students learned the process of sounding out words using vowel blends, prefixes, and word parts. I look forward to seeing their fluency skills increase throughout the trimester!

In second period math, we are continuing chapter 4 in the mathematics book. Next week we will focus on probability, least common multiple, and comparing & ordering fractions. There will be a quiz Wednesday on Chapter 4.6-4.8.

week of November 28

On Monday, 3rd and 4th period RtI reading we will begin working with the "Rewards" program. This program is designed to teach strategies used to decode long words and to increase oral and silent reading fluency. Seventh period class will continue to work from the Inside Series.

Have a wonderful Thanksgiving!

week of October 24

In 2nd period math class, we are continuing to work on data and statistics in Chapter 3. There will be a quiz on sections 3 and 4 on Wednesday and a quest on Chapter 3 on Friday.

In RtI reading we began Unit 3 of the Inside Series. We will continue to learn about people in history that made a difference during the Civil Rights Movement such as Martin Luther King Jr, Rosa Parks and Thurgood Marshall.

In RtI math, students are learning about the different strategies used in the problem solving method. Such methods are "Making a Table","Working Backwards," and "Finding Hidden Information."

week of October 10

In 2nd period math, will be reviewing the the Chapter 1 test that will be on Friday, October 14. On Wednesday, while the 8th graders are taking the Explore test, we will be reviewing some basic concepts that need reviewing. On Monday, October 17, we will begin Chapter 2 which covers frequency tables, bar graphs, and histograms.

In RtI math we will be focusing on Greatest Common Factor and reducing fractions.

RtI classes

This week in RtI reading we are continuing to read from the "Inside" series. Unit 2 of the series focuses on the elements of fiction....plot, character, and setting. In class we are continuing to test fluency and reading comprehension on a weekly basis.

In RtI math this week, the focus is long division with decimals, changing fractions into decimals, and scientific notation. Students will be taking a "Mad Minute" test (factors of 4). Next week will test factors of 5.