Wednesday, March 5, 2014

BACK IN BUSINESS!!!

I HAVE BEEN LOCKED OUT OF MY BLOG, BUT NOW WE'RE BACK IN BUSINESS!!!

Important Dates

Feb 28th - End of Term 2
Friday, March 14th - no classes
Saturday, March 29th - Spring Break begins! 
Monday, April 7th - Classes resume
April 13 - April 28th - Fountas and Pinnell Assessments


GRADE 8 ELA

We've spent almost every class during the past four weeks working on our Lit Circles. Students should be handing in the following:

- All journaling sheets (yellow sheets) from the entire lit circle. Post-its should be included as well.
- Representation Assignment
- Character Sketch (paragraph form) and Character Trait Frame
- Plotline Assignment (green sheet)

DUE: THURSDAY, MARCH 6TH

MRS. FUERST WILL BE RE-ASSESSING STUDENTS' READING COMPREHENSION FROM APRIL 13th - APRIL 28TH. FEEDBACK WILL BE PROVIDED ON TERM 3 REPORT CARDS.

Students have been working on their phonics skills and basics such as word usage (their, there, they're), contractions, and word attack skills.

Term 2 ended on Feb 28th for us. Students are now working on Term 3 assignments (with the exception of all lit circle assignments.

ANY LATE OR INCOMPLETE ASSIGNMENTS WILL BE INCLUDED IN THE TERM 3 MARK.

SOCIAL STUDIES

ANCIENT EGYPT PROJECTS ARE DUE FRIDAY, MARCH 7th.