Great Job Today Team 7-2

The response with the homework has been great in ELA. The stories, lessons and illustrations are very good and look very challenging. I hope you are able to perfect your work for tomorrow and do a decent set of Quarter notes for Chapters 14-17.

KEEP WORKING HARD!!

Don't Forget Your Good Qualities

Today we continued working on "Participles, Gerunds and Verbs." We also reviewed "Infinitives." Hopefully, you will remember these grammar terms next year and beyond. We corrected our homework and received more homework for tonight. It is a "Participle" review and it is very easy!

Tomorrow "stories, lesson, and illustrations" are due.

Friday, Quarter notes for Chapter 14-17 are due, also.

Good Luck, Kristen Karhan

Kristen Karhan will be reading her "What Memorial Day Means To Me" essay tomorrow at the Tyngsborough American Legion aftr the parade. Congratulations, Kristen.

May 28th --- Stories, illustrations and lesons
May 29th --- Quarter notes for Chapters14-17

Quarter Notes for Chapters 14-17 Due May 29th. Stories, Illustrations, Lessons Due May 28th.

We went over the Chapter 11 homework questions 1-5. Cole is finally realizing the "world is a beautiful place" in Chapter 12 before he gets rescued. What lies in store for Cole? Will he survive? Will he change? Keep reading to find the answers to these and more questions.

Stories,Illustrations and Lessons Due May 28th.

Stoies, illustrations and lessons are due May 28th. Today we were assigned to our classroom at TES. Many students met with their "fellow teachers" to decide what type of lesson to teach their specific class. We will work on them briefly before they are due but students should be working on this project at home.

Today we answered questions from Chapter 10 of "Touching Spirit Bear." Tonight for homework, we are copying in the five Chapter 11 questions we received in class. Students are to copy the questions and the answers into their notebooks.

Quarter notes for Chapters 13-17 are due on May 29th. Please do not put off for tomorrow what you can get done today.

Congratulations to Kristen Karhan for winning first place in the "What Memorial Day Means To Me" essay contest. We will look forward to hearing Kristen read her essay at the legion on Memorial Day. Good Luck, Kristen!

Quarter Notes for Chapters 10-12 Due Tomorrow, Bookmarks Due Tomorrow, May 20th

Today we read most of Chapter 10 in "Touching Spirit Bear" and filled in some figurative language on the bookmarks as we read. As we get further along in the book, Cole Matthews realizes he has a very definite reason to live. He has an epiphany when he sees the lifeless baby sparrows and understands how they have become part of the "circle of life." Keep Reading!!!!!

The stories for the elementary children look wonderful. We'll begin organizing our assignments and planning our lessons.

On Friday, May 22nd some students will present a Power Point on the "The Ten Ways To Reduce Anger" which may have helped Cole Matthews before he beat up Peter Driscal. We are looking forward to these presentations.

Story Due Tomorrow, May 19th.

For those of you who checked the blog over the weekend, you know the story is due tomorrow.We worked on illustrations today while Mrs. Jaggers conferenced with individual students. The stories should be typed and illustrated with a lesson plan by May 28th. We devoted the entire ELA class to working on this project today.


Quarter notes for Chapters 10-12 for "Touching Spirit Bear" due on Wednesday, May 20th.

Typed Story Due Tuesday, May 19th rather than Monday, May 18th.

Because of so many recitals, sporting events, shows, competitions and a science packet, the typed 3-5 pages will be due on Tuesday, May 19th rather than Monday, May 18th! Do a good job on your packet and an even better job on your story. June 10th is rapidly approaching and we want to be prepared and do a wonderful job teaching the elementary children. We'll discuss lesson plans on Monday, May 18th, also.
REMEMBER: 3-5 pages typed, 1 1/2 space, 12 font,3-5 illustrations,a great lesson!
If you have typed your story begin working on your illustrations!

"Touching Spirit Bear" quarter notes for chapters 10-12 will be due on Wednesday, May 20th.

Bookmarks and Quarter Notes For Chapters 7-9 Due Friday

Now that math MCAS is over, we can work fast and furious on our stories and lesson plans. We looked at folders from students who have read to the elementary children over the past nine years and we have noticed the improvement in the quality of the lessons. Final typed copies of the stories with lesson plans are due on May 28th which is not that far away!

Bookmarks and quarter notes for Chapters 7-9 are due this Friday, May 15th. Keep reading the book. A surprise quiz may be lurking in the future!!!!

"What Memorial Day Means To Me" essays are due ASAP!

MCAS Means No Homework, but.......

Great job on the beautiful Mother's Day letters and poems. Your pot pourri hearts were gorgeous, also. Your Moms are very lucky! Although you have no homework this evening, you should continue to read" Touching Spirit Bear" and complete one page of quarter notes for Chapters 7-9. which is due on Friday. Also, the bookmark identifying similes, metaphors, personification and idioms is also due on Friday, May 15th.

"What Memorial Day Means to Me" essays are being collected all week until Friday, May 15th. Essays will be used to help grades below 70% on the finals from Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry. Do a good job and type essays. Good luck to all those who submit their essay for an opportunity to win a prize and the honor of reading the essay on Memorial Day.

We recently had 8 poets recognized on Team 7-2. Congratulations to Cathryn Cook, Melissa Barisano, Joey Girouard, Jennifer Kordash, Danielle Morin, Heather Murphy, Stephanie Murray and Danielle Walsh. Cathryn Cook also received an Honorable Mention for essay submitted to the Jean d"Arc Credit Union. Excellent Job!

Don't Forget What You Need For Tomorrow

We will wrap and frame our poems and hearts tomorrow. Make sure you have any ribbon,lace, magnets , and tissue paper necessary for the final product! Also, make sure whatever you wrote (we checked today) is perfect. Finally, do not forget your rubric.

Vocabulary words are due tomorrow.

Friday, the orange sheet with the questions for Chapters 1-5 is due on Friday so "keep on reading."

One page of quarter notes for Chapters 4-6 is due on Monday, May 11th!

"What Memorial Day Means To Me" essays are due on May 15th. You will be afforded the opportunity to win a prize and read your essay at the legion on Memorial Day after the parade.

Great Job Today Team 7-2

Tomorrow you only need to bring in your final poem/letter/ for "you know who?"
One page of quarter notes for Chapters 1-3 for Touching Spirit Bear.
Bring in your rubric so I can make sure you have it.

VERY IMPORTANT! If you scored below 70% on the last vocabulary test we took, have the test signed by a parent and you may retake the test on Wednesday after school! Your rides should pick you up by 3:30 pm. If you have another test you would like to retake, please have the test signed before you take another test.

Keep working on your stories, We finished a literature map and a story map. You should be writing your story in your notebook. Keep writing. We will work on quotation marks for correctly writing dialogue.

The next 3 chapters (4-6) for Touching Spirit Bear can be read right now. The next set of quarter notes (one page for Chapters 4-6 will be due next Monday, May 11th.

DON"T FORGET SUPPLIES FOR TOMORROW

Hey Team 7-3, don't forget your supplies for tomorrow. Are your "letters/poems/thank you cards" finished and decorated? If you have any extra newspapers please bring them in! Thanks.

Remember only one page of quarter notes for chapters 1-3 in Touching Spirit Bear.

Final Copy of Mother's Day Poem or Letter Due Monday, May 4th

Today we had a workshop to begin typing our stories and poems. If students use their time wisely, they should be able to get
quite a bit done today during class. Our workshop went very well and we are creating wonderful stories to read to the elementary children. Remember, the completed story due at the end of May, should be between 3-5 typed pages with 3-5 illustrations and a colorful title page.

We are still reading Touching Spirit Bear and one page of quarter notes for Chapters 1-3 is due on Monday, May 4th.

The team is doing a great job avoiding "Strikes" for no homework. Keep up the good work!