Renshaw's Recap

Use the study materials on my blog and past posts.

2010-Syllabus - Social Studies

Syllabus%202010[2]       last pg. of syllabus   Earth Science

Syllabus – 2010       LA syllabus signature sheet    Language Arts

Some students brought home a green map to work on some skills  that they need to improve. Please return this tomorrow so that you can improve your test grade.

Students should be working on their Island design. We will work on it some in class Tues. and Wed.. It is due Friday.

Pinnacle should be going live on Monday. Please realize that it may take a few days for teachers to properly transfer grades for students who had schedule changes.

Tues. night 6-7  is 6th Grade University to help acquaint parents with the technology we use in middle school. We hope to see you there!

Today we welcomed several new students to our class.

We worked out of Reader’s Journey today and talked about making predictions about things we are reading.

We will go to the media center on Wed. to check out books.

We will have our Parts of Speech Test on Tuesday, Students should be studying their Grammar Rock notes and going to sites on my blog.

Under my blogroll is Grammar Gorillas and Study Stack (Go to English Vocab/ organize my date/ Mrs. Renshaw’s class is on 8/27)

Here is a Quia game too:

http://www/jg/1993959.html

Today we welcomed some new students to our class.

We wiped our minds clear of the “elementary” way of thinking about the earth’s layers. We discussed the inner and outer core, the mesosphere, the aesthenosphere, and the lithosphere. please ask your child what they remember about each layer.

Monday we are going to spend a little more time on the metric system and do some assessment probes.

Have a great weekend!

Today we welcomed some new students to our class.

We will be sorting out all issues with grades, assignments, books, etc. this coming week.

I will try to issue books either Monday or Tuesday.

I showed students their test grade today – some struggled and will have an opportunity next week to work on improving their map skills and test grade.

I handed out the Design an Island Project today. We will be working on this some in class. All they need to do this weekend is decide on a theme and select the 10 landforms that they would like to use. The landforms are on the back of the worksheet we started today and will finish on Monday.

The project will be due on Friday – Sept. 3. It will count as a test grade.

I’ve posted some landform games for you to play:

http://www.quia.com/rr/654221.html

http://www.quia.com/rr/654261.html

http://www.quia.com/jg/2002126.html

Island-Design

Landforms __

Today we took an open note quiz on our writing notes.

We also started a lesson on making predictions in Reader’s Journey.

Homework: Students should be studying for their Parts of Speech Test that will be on Tuesday. They should review their Grammar Rock notes, practice on Grammar Gorilla and play the following game:

http://www.quia.com/jg/1993959.html

Today we worked on correcting problems that the students had on the measurement application quiz.

No homework.

We  finally took our map skills test today. I will try to have them graded by tomorrow.

Homework – finish pages 4 and 5 in your Reading Study Guide. You should be able to do these without your textbook.