Week of May 19
Monday - Parts of Speech quiz.
This week we will continue our novel study; we will watch the Jurassic Park video.
It has been a wonderful year. Enjoy 7th grade!
Daily homework is always to read a book for at least a half hour.
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This is DGP week 30; our last week! We will review grammar quizzes. Novel study will continue.
Vocabulary quiz on Tuesday May 13th.
AR Points will be due on May 15th.
Every Monday and Wednesday we will be reading the Atlanta Journal Constitution newspaper.
Daily homework is always to read a book for at least a half hour.
This is DGP week 29. We will continue with our Vocabulary words.
Novel study will continue.
AR Points will be due on May 15th.
Every Monday and Wednesday we will be reading the Atlanta Journal Constitution newspaper.
Daily homework is always to read a book for at least a half hour.
This is DGP week 28. We will continue with Book Wheel presentations.
Novel study will begin.
Vocabulary quiz will be on Thursday, May 1.
AR Points will be due on May 9.
Every Monday and Wednesday we will be reading the Atlanta Journal Constitution newspaper.
Daily homework is always to read a book for at least a half hour.
Book Wheels will be presented during the week.
This is DGP week 27.
Monday - CRCT review.
Tuesday -Media Center - CRCT information on research skills.
Friday - vocabulary quiz.
Every Monday and Wednesday we will be reading the Atlanta Journal Constitution newspaper.
Daily homework is always to read a book for at least a half hour.
Monday - Friday DGP week 26.
This week we will continue our adverb unit.
Wednesday - Book Wheel is due.
Thursday - Test on adverbs.
Daily homework is always to read a book for at least a half hour.
Every Monday and Wednesday we will be reading the Atlanta Journal Constitution newspaper.
Week of March 24
This week adverbs will be our focus.
Monday-Friday DGP week 25.
We will continue our CRCT practice tests.
Thursday - We will go to the Media Center to check out books and take AR tests.
Our book wheel is due April 16.
Every Monday and Wednesday we will be reading the Atlanta Journal Constitution newspaper.
Daily homework is always to read a book for at least a half hour.
Week of March 24
This week we will continue our grammar unit on verbs.
Monday-Friday DGP week 24.
Monday - Present advertisements, check workbook pages.
Tuesday -We will complete a verb study guide.
Wednesday - Adjective game, CRCT practice
Thursday -Verb Test.
Friday - Begin study of adverbs.
Every Monday and Wednesday we will be reading the Atlanta Journal Constitution newspaper.
Daily homework is always to read a book for at least a half hour.
Week of March 17
This week we will continue our grammar unit on verbs.
Monday-Friday DGP week 23.
Monday - We will write cooperative, fun, St. Paddy's Day stories which we will share.
Tuesday -We will begin working on CRCT practice for reading, summarizing.
Thursday -Vocabulary quiz.
Every Monday and Wednesday we will be reading the Atlanta Journal Constitution newspaper.
Daily homework is always to read a book for at least a half hour.
Week of March 10
This week we will continue our grammar unit on verbs.
Monday-Friday DGP week 22.
Monday - Metamorphosis due.
Tuesday - Newspaper scavenger hunt due.
Thursday - AR points due.
Friday - -Helping verb song.
Every Monday and Wednesday we will be reading the Atlanta Journal Constitution newspaper.
Daily homework is always to read a book for at least a half hour.
Week of March 3
This week we will continue our adjective unit.
We will read the AJC and write summaries and reflections.
We will check out books and take AR tests in the Media Center.
Daily homework is always to read a book for at least a half hour.
Week of February 25
This week we will continue our grammar unit on adjectives.
Monday - meet in the Media Center
Tuesday - Friday - We will study plays in our Literature Book.
Every Monday and Wednesday we will be reading the Atlanta Journal Constitution newspaper.
Daily homework is always to read a book for at least a half hour.
Week of February 18
This week we will begin our new grammar unit on adjectives. We will work on DGP--week 19.
Wednesday - Young authors contest entries due.
Thursday -Quotation test.
Friday - Vocabulary Quiz.
Every Monday and Wednesday we will be reading the Atlanta Journal Constitution newspaper.
Daily homework is always to read a book for at least a half hour.
Week of February 11
This week we will be continuing our unit on quotations. We will work on DGP--week 18.
Monday - We will be continuing our presidential talks. The students have written and presented some excellent ideas. We have had fun listening to them.
Tuesday-Heroes essay is due.
Thursday -We will be doing some fun Valentine activities.
Every Monday and Wednesday we will be reading the Atlanta Journal Constitution newspaper.
Daily homework is always to read a book for at least a half hour.
Week of February 4
This week we will be working on our Compare-Contrast essay.
Monday - meet in the Media Center.
Our grammar unit this week will be on quotations.
Thursday is a milestone day that you should have approximately one-half of your AR points completed.
Friday - we will have fun giving presidential talks.
February 12 : Heroes essay is due.
Every Monday and Wednesday we will be reading the Atlanta Journal Constitution newspaper.
Daily homework is always to read a book for at least a half hour.
Week of January 28
This week we will be working on DGP and continuing our oral book report and diorama presentations.
Our next grammar unit will be quotations.
February 12 : Heroes essay is due.
Every Monday and Wednesday we will be reading the Atlanta Journal Constitution newspaper.
Daily homework is always to read a book for at least a half hour.
Week of January 21
This week we will present our oral book reports and dioramas.
Wednesday: we will go to the Media Center
Thursday: we have our comma test.
Every Monday and Wednesday we will be reading the Atlanta Journal Constitution newspaper.
Daily homework is always to read a book for at least a half hour.
Week of January 14
This week we will continue our grammar unit on commas.
Monday-Friday DGP week 15.
Thursday: we will have our vocabulary quiz on 15 words.
Friday: oral book report presentations with a diorama or poster are due.
Every Monday and Wednesday we will be reading the Atlanta Journal Constitution newspaper.
Daily homework is always to read a book for at least a half hour.
Week of January 7
Tuesday - Meet in Media Center to do author research for book report.
Monday-Friday - Continuation of grammar
Every Monday and Wednesday we will be reading the Atlanta Journal Constitution newspaper.
Daily homework is always to read a book for at least a half hour.
Week of December 17
Monday - Bring Literature book for a play students will read.
Tuesday - Friday - Creative holiday writing.
Every Monday and Wednesday we will be reading the Atlanta Journal Constitution newspaper.
Daily homework is always to read a book for at least a half hour.
Have a wonderful holiday break. See you in 2008!
Week of December 10
This week we will be doing dramatic interpretation in several different plays.
Tuesday - Pronoun test.
Friday - Reindeer project is due.
Every Monday and Wednesday we will be reading the Atlanta Journal Constitution newspaper.
Daily homework is always to read a book for at least a half hour.
Week of December 3
Monday - Vocabulary Quiz on 15 words.
This week we will be continuing our play and continue to work on pronouns.
Every Monday and Wednesday we will be reading the Atlanta Journal Constitution newspaper.
Daily homework is always to read a book for at least a half hour.
Week of November 26
Monday- Mystery book report due.
This we will be working on pronouns .
Every Monday and Wednesday we will be reading the Atlanta Journal Constitution newspaper.
Daily homework is always to read a book for at least a half hour.
Week of November 12
Monday- Spelling Bee words, Scavenger Hunt check, Edgar Allan Poe article and quiz.
Tuesday - Too Good For Violence information.
Wednesday- Dracula play. We will begin our new grammar unit on pronouns which we will continue during the week.
Every Monday and Wednesday we will be reading the Atlanta Journal Constitution newspaper.
Daily homework is always to read a book for at least a half hour.
Week of November 5
Enjoy your days off. Use the time to Read!
Wednesday - we will be in the Media Center
Thursday - Noun test and Poe reading activity.
Friday - Scavenger Hunt book report and plays.
Every Monday and Wednesday we will be reading the Atlanta Journal Constitution newspaper.
Daily homework is always to read a book for at least a half hour.
Week of October 29
Speed Reading continues this week.
We will be reading some Halloween plays and doing related comprehension activities.
This will be Week five of DGP.
New vocabulary words begin.
We will have a concentrated study of nouns.
Every Monday and Wednesday we will be reading the Atlanta Journal Constitution newspaper.
Daily homework is always to read a book for at least a half hour.
Week of October 22
We will work on Speed Reading this week.
Monday - Grammar Test
Tuesday - Skeleton due
(Picture retakes on Tuesday)
Thursday - Vocabulary Quiz
Friday - Media Center
Every Monday and Wednesday we will be reading the Atlanta Journal Constitution newspaper.
Daily homework is always to read a book for at least a half hour.
Week of October 15
We will continue our study of the sentence, subject and predicate, fragments, and run-on sentences.
We will also continue narrative writing.
We will be working with summarization of newspaper articles.
Every Monday and Wednesday we will be reading the Atlanta Journal Constitution newspaper.
Daily homework is always to read a book for at least a half hour.
Week of October 8
This week we will continue narrative writing.
We will work on summarization and details using the AJC.
Thursday, October 11, AR points are due. We will go to the Media Center to take AR tests, do an AR point printout, and check out books.
Friday we will work on grammar skills in the Computer Lab.
Every Monday and Wednesday we will be reading the Atlanta Journal Constitution newspaper.
Daily homework is always to read a book for at least a half hour.
Week of October 1
This week we will work on the writing process and narrative writing.
Wednesday - we will go to
the computer lab in the Media Center
AR points are due October 11.
Every Monday and Wednesday we will be reading the Atlanta Journal Constitution newspaper.
Daily homework is always to read a book for at least a half hour.
Week of September 24
This week we will begin narrative writing, and read narrative selections from our text.
We will begin DGP - Daily Grammar Practice and a new daily vocabulary word.
We will study the writing process.
Every Monday and Wednesday we will be reading the Atlanta Journal Constitution newspaper.
Daily homework is always to read a book for at least a half hour.
Week of September 16
This week - we will continue our review of the eight parts of speech.
Thursday - Grammar quiz
Friday - Grammar test
Reminders - Tuesday is Picture Day.
Wednesday is an early release day.
Week of September 10
This week - we will continue our review of the eight parts of speech.
Wednesday - we will have a quiz on the Preposition Song.
Friday - we will go to the Media Center
to take AR tests and check out books.
Week of September 3
Tuesday - we will continue our short story exploration.
Wednesday - Friday - we will begin a review of the eight parts of speech.
Week of August 27
Monday - baseline writing in
the Media Center.
Tuesday - we will explore our two textbooks by doing a scavenger hunt.
Wednesday - "I Am" poem is due.
Thursday & Friday - we will begin a review of the eight parts of speech.
Week of August 20
This week we will have a language arts pretest.
We will begin writing an "I Am" poem.
Your homework is to read daily.
I am looking forward to meeting your parents during the 6th Grade Open House (for parents only) - Tuesday, August 21, 6:30 p.m.
Week of August 13
Welcome to my class!
I hope you enjoyed your summer.
This week we will get acquainted.
