December 7-11
This week we are preparing for our star reading tests that will be given next Monday or Tuesday. This is our schedule:
Monday
Fluency and Pearl Harbor
Tuesday
Ms. Bryner our counselor is working on success skills
Wednesday
Library and 3 minute readings-to work in comprehension
Thursday
Reading Comprehension on Greece
Freerice.com-We will be in the computer lab working on vocabulary
Friday
Myth-Bellerphon

October 20-23
Tuesday: Fluency and Women Pharaohs
Wednesday: Library and RamsesII
Thursday: Cloze #9 and Cleopatra
Friday: Foldables and Pharaoh review
Thanks;

Carolyn Johnston

Monday October 12,2009

It's Monday again so soon. Here's our schedule for the week:
Monday-Fluency, a reading on Hieroglyphics and we will go in the lab and print our name out in hieroglyphics
Tuesday: Cloze #7, start on Pharaohs by reading about King Tut
Wednesday: Library, a movie on TUT
Thursday: Reading Comprehension on Pharaoh Ramses II and Hatshepsut.
Have a great week-there are no test but many students need to make up their Government test in REAL time.

Thanks;

Carolyn Johnston

Oct 5

Our week in Social Studies will be:Monday: Fluency and Egypt GovernmentTuesday: Reading Comprehension/ Life in EgyptWednesday: Library and finish governmentThursday: Life on the Nile Reading ComprehensionFriday: Government test and start our foldable.Thank you;
Carolyn Johnston

Sept 14-18

We are pushing to finish Mesopotamia by next Monday. We have finished our timeline, our invention wheel and will start the gods on Wednesday. We need to write our name in cuneiform and learn about Hammurabi and then we are finished. All assignments from Mesopotamia need to be handed in by Sept. 21. Once we are through with Mesopotamia, I will not take any late work or make up work from that unit.
We completed our 7th fluency reading, our 3rd cloze passage and will finish our 4th reading comprehension by Friday.

Sept 8-11

Wow! Did I ever get behind or what? This week we will be working on City-States, cuneiform, and starting to put our folders together. We will be doing a fluency on Tuesday, library on Wednesday, Cloze passage on Thursday and either a fluency or a Reading Comprehension on Friday. We will be finishing Mesopotamia very quickly and moving on to Egypt.

Monday, August 31, 2009

Today we completed Fluency #3 and charted it. We also did a reading comprehension on Checks and Balances within the Federal Government. We charted that and started keeping score of the questions missed. Students will be using REAL time to make up their map test.

Monday, Tuesday August 24,25

Today we took the STAR reading test so we can place students where they need to be within the class but also in a different class if necessary. We finished notes on Hunter/Gatherers and read from Hatchet. On Tuesday we went to the library and checked out books. We started a DVD on Mesopotamia in 3 of the classes. We will finish that Wednesday.

August 21, 2009

MAP TEST! It's nice to have that over. We finished out test, reviewed how to get into STAR reading for next week and we read from Hatchet.

Friday, August 21, 2009

Map test-If a student didn't get 15 out of 17 correct, they need to study and retake this quiz. They can come in before school or they can do it on Thursday during our first REAL time. We finished coloring our maps and we read from Hatchet.

August 20, 2009

We completed our Mesopotamia vocabulary during class. If it was not completed, it will be homework. We talked and took notes about Hunter/Gatherers and how we went from there to developing civilizations. We read a couple of pages in Hatchet.

August 19, 2009

We completed a reading comprehension titled Mesopotamia 101. We reviewed for our map test and took notes on hunting/gathering.

August 18, 2009

We completed Cloze #1, reviewed our map and started taking notes on Hunter/Gather as they progressed to civilization.

Monday, August 17
We did our fluency reading and charted our data. We will be able to see progress after about 4 readings. We labeled our maps and colored them. We will be having a map test on Friday and those maps will come home Tuesday to study.

Friday August, 14th

Second Day of School!
Only 178 left to go.
Today we reviewed the continents and Oceans. We learned about different types of maps and what types of things must be on a map. We completed the first two worksheets in our packet.

First Week of School

Welcome back to school. I hope you all had a great summer and are ready to get going. Our first two days of school will be learning and reviewing procedures and learning how to do our reading curriculum. Students will get a disclosure; the signature sheet will need to be returned by Friday. Students will have a map test next Friday and a vocabulary test the Friday after that.