Ms. Finley

1/26/12

Good evening,

please remember to sign your your child's reading log tonight. They are to have 210 minutes for this week.

We are continuing with the packet of activities relating to "The Young Man and The Sea" . Tomorrow we will finish those and review the answers. The students will all then read their own books.

1/24/12

Good evening,

today we worked on answering questions regarding chapters 1-3. Tomorrow we will read chapters 4-7 and then have more comprehension question pertaining to those on Thursday. We will go through the same process until the book is finished. When we are finished we will then take the average of all the worksheet grades for one quiz grade. Then there will be a test over the book and figurative language combined.

This whole process will take about two and a half weeks.

Remember to read every night!!!

1/23/12

Good evening,

we began reading The Young Man and The Sea today. Tomorrow we will be doing activities that go along with chapters 1-3. As we read, there with be assignments that I will grade along the way. There will not be a test for awhile, however there will be a lot of grades associated with the unit.

1/12/12

Dear parents,

 please remember to sign the reading logs tonight. Since break was last week, technically the students were only required to read 90 min. this week and 180 next week.

We will be working on figurative language throughout the week.

1/10/12

Welcome back,

today we introduced figurative language. Many of the students remember some of it , but are a bit fuzzy on the definitions. Throughout the next nine weeks we will be working on poetry, reading a novel " The Young Man and The Sea" and focusing on figurative language.

Since we have only four days of school this week and next ,the students are required to read 180 total minutes for  each week. The students will need a total of 30 AR points for this nine weeks. That catches you up on what is to come.

12/20/11

Good evening. Tomorrow we are having a test over the vocabulary words, there are twenty matching and twenty fill in the blank. The sentences are an area of weakness for many. so spend some time reviewing the sentences. 

The final AR points are due on Thursday, so please read !!!!

Reading log will need to be signed tomorrow night and reflect 180 minutes of reading, as we have one less day this week.

I posted two more grades today and will have about three or four more before the grading period ends.

12/19/11

Dear parents and students,

today we went to the media center to take AR tests and check in/ out books. The students are expected to read through Wednesday and  have their reading logs signed Wednesday, for me to check on Tursday, due to no school on Friday. 

I will be posting quiz grades tomorrow as well as last weeks reading log.

Tonight's homework is to complete flashcards to prepare for Wednesday's test.

All AR tests much be taken by Thursday. It was observed today that many are behind in their points.

12/16/11

The students had a quiz today over text structures. The grades were fair. I will analyze the data to see if there were specific questions that the majority got wrong  wrong, If so I will eliminate  them , before posting the final grade on Monday.

Today I posted the quiz from Wednesday.

Next Wednesday we will be having a vocabulary test. The students should spend some tim reveiwing these wordsDownload December vocabulary.

12/14/11

Please get your reading logs signed.

Tomorrow there is a quiz over text structure( compare and contrast, cause and effect, problem and solution, sequencing, chronological order, and spatial/ description ) review your notes andthese two attachments . The first is the worksheet , the second has the answers. Please try the worksheet first then check your answers. Download Text structure worksheet ,Download Textstructure

The vocabulary test will be next Wednesday.

12/13/11

Good evening,

today we did a brief review for tomorrow's post test. I only covered those items that we learned awhile back. Much of the quiz/test is reading long passages and answering questions, so the best advice I can offer is to take your time on each passage and refer to it often to help you through the questions. You will have all class period if needed.

I will take the final AR points on the twenty-second, so you have a bit of time to finish any book you are reading and take an AR quiz.