Ms. Humphreys

May 12 to May 16

I hope everyone had a nice weekend! It's hard to believe that we will soon be done with school; we will continue to work up until the last day, and I have outlined this week's work below:

This week we will continue our study of the novel, Nothing but the Truth by reading and discussing it daily.  The students will enter vocabulary words in their notebooks as we move through the book.  A vocabulary test over the whole book will be on Tuesday, May 20.  We will review the words in class, but please begin to study this week!  Students are allowed and encouraged to bring home their reading notebooks to begin studying.

HW:  Study some of the vocabulary words every day, the entire list has 54 words on it, and you do not want to wait until next Monday night to begin studying. 

May 9

Today we played BINGO as a review of the vocabulary that we have worked with so far in the novel, Nothing but the Truth.  The students then read in their novels; all students should be to page 70 by now. 

HW:  If you missed a day of reading and checked out a novel, please read up to page 70.

May 8

As we continue to read Nothing but the Truth, the students completed vocabulary for chapters 10 and 11 and then began to read pages 40 to 70.  We also discussed the journal entry from yesterday.

HW:  None

May 7

We reviewed the first few chapters of Nothing but the Truth before the students completed vocabulary for chapters 5 to 9 today.  Students then read chapters 5 to 9 and began journal response.

HW: None

May 6

After reviewing the vocabulary words for chapters 1 to 5 in Nothing but the Truth, the students read those chapters and completed a journal entry. 

HW:  None

May 5

This week we will begin a novel study on the book, Nothing but the Truth, by Avi.  We began today by reading about Avi and learning how he came to be an author of young adult fiction.  Students also began vocabulary for chapters 1 to 5, which we read in class tomorrow.

HW:  None

April 28 to May 2

The students will continue to work on their Comma Projects this week. The final project is due on Thursday.  On Friday, we will be in the computer lab for a writing activity

HW:  No homework this week.

April 21-25

I have decided to post the work for the week today as it will not change as the days go on.  The students will begin to work on a project that works on their skills with 18 comma rules.  Part of this project requires that the students cut out examples of commas in print; as a result we will need many magazines!  Students may bring in a total of 5 magazines for this activity.

HW:  Monday and Tuesday--bring in 5 magazines that can be cut up for the comma project.   Wed., Thursday and Friday--no homework.

April 18

Today we reviewed punctuation rules and corrected the packet the students worked on yesterday.  We then worked on  "easily confused" words.  This work is in preparation for testing next week.

HW:  None

April 17

Today we continued to review and practice punctuation rules. 

HW:  None