Thank Goodness it's Thursday!!!!

As the week comes closer to a close, I gave the 8th graders numerous assignments that will be due when they come back Tues. Sept.4.

Due tomorrow=Vocab Quiz Less.#4.

Due Tues. Sept.4= 
*Health Mag Info text.  Give a 3-2-1 orally.
*Online assign over Capitalization.  If students don't have access to a computer at home, they must find the time during/before/and after school to get this done.
*Wb p.9&10=Commas

Students will not have much class time to work on these assignments tomorrow.

Wild Wednesday!!!!!!

Today was a fun day in class.  We created our Avatars for our new online Write Source textbooks.  That took a long time!!!!  Then we "played around" on the site to try and figure some of the new cool interactive stuff out!!  Good news students--I figured out how to create an assignment!! (insert cheers and applause here :)

Tomo Vocab Less. #4 is due.  We will grade it.  The quiz will be Friday.  Rest up and enjoy a night off.

Terrific Tuesday!!

Busy, busy, busy Tuesday.  The 8th graders are at this moment taking the CoAg test with Mrs. Harrel.  Later today we have JH baseball here at 4:30 against Arnett.  The HS softball plays Elk City and W'ford at Elk City after school sometime.  Don't forget the FFA kids started their meat sales yesterday.

Today in class we briefly reviewed the "Process of Writing" steps.  Pre-writing, Writing, Revising, Editing, and Publishing are the 5 steps that we will be learning in greater detail this entire year.  Then the last 10 minutes of class, we logged onto our new textbooks website and tried to create our Avatars.  Took us awhile to figure out how to log in, so we didn't have much time to "play with" our avatars.  Tomorrow during class, we will finish designing them and probably do an online assignment.

 

 

 



Hello Heat!!

Gosh--I thought the cooler Fall weather was here to stay and then I looked at the forecast for this week.  Some days will get up into the 100's.  Oh Boy!!!!  Where's the water park??!!
FFA meat sales start today.  Support these kids and buy some Blue and Gold.  JH and HS sb at Shatty.  HS baseball at Hydro-Eakly Tourn all this week and possibly next Monday. 

Today in 8th English we discussed page1-3 in Write Source textbook.  We did two small short writing activities in class and handed them in if students got finished.  We wrote in our Journals.  I also assigned Vocab. Wb Less.#5--due Thurs.

Thunder-ific Thursday!!

What a welcome the thunder was this morning as it meant that rain would probably follow. I am so thankful for the rain!!!!!!  Hope it continues through the evening.  We all desperately need the moisture.  The cooler weather is a welcomed relief also.

Today we graded all of the worksheets from yesterday. That was 3 seperate grades. We handed in the T-chart from their magazine articles.  I will grade those. I haven't posted any grades yet for the 8th grade.  I plan to do that today after school.  So far, I've taken 10 grades.  I just need to get them on the computer.

Tomorrow Vocab wb. Less. #3 is due.  After grading wb, we will take the vocab quiz.  If the students bring their library book, they will get bonus points for their quiz.  I will start listening to oral book reports then,  if necessary.

 

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Just Tuesday???

     This week seems to be dragging slowly along!!  I'm tired and feel like it's Thursday and I've been in school for a week!  lol  :)  I need to get more rest at night or on the weekends--something!!
     Tomorrow I will be gone, so I passed out all of the worksheets for tomo and went over them with the kids.  This is what they are doing.
 

·        Vampire Reading Comprehension worksheet.(p.26-27)

·        Week 1&2 Proofreading worksheet.(p.4&6)

·        Wb. p. 5-6=comma’s between items in a series

·        Finish the T-chart.

·        All of those 4 assignments are due tomorrow—Thursday.

·        Can also work on Vocab wb. Less.#3—Due Friday

TGIF!!!!

Glad to see the weekend get here!!!  We all survived the first week!!  The Leedey HS SB Tourn. is still going on.  Go out and support the Lady Bison.  The JH boys play in the Sentinel Festival tomorrow.  Hope its cooler weather like we are having today.

In class today we took our Vocab Quiz over Less.#2.  Most students did well.  Then we started on our oral reports over our magazine articles.  We only had time for Kaleb, Kyler, Abby, and Gabe to give theirs.  The rest of the class will finish theirs on Monday.  They have to add, at the end of their oral report, 1-2 things they learned new and 1-2 things they didn't really understand.  Make sure that you are paraphrasing to me the MAIN IDEA.  A few of the students that gave their reports today seemed to be a skosh fuzzy on the main idea.  We got a bit bogged down with unimportant details. 

Only One More Day till Weekend!!

Gosh!!  This week has flown by.  Everything is going fast and furious.  The HS softball Leedey Tourn. is going on today thru Sat.  Some of the JH softball girls have to help with that.  The JH baseball boys play at the Sentinel Festival Sat. Lots of activities to keep people entertained and busy.

Today in class we continued to Journal with our two characters that we created and actually started dialogue between the two relating to their conflict and setting.  We will continue to work with that the next few days.  We graded the Vocab Wb Less. #2.  There is a 10 question quiz over those 10 words tomo.  We also checked out magazines from the library and the students picked an article that they want to give a 2-3 min. oral report over.  They can only take note cards up to the front of the class with them and it is due tomo.  They must also use the sticky arrow notes (that I gave them) to make these marks in the non fictional texts: things that are important; things they learned new; things they don't understand. Tomo after finishing the oral reports, we will grade their Scavenger Hunt worksheets.
Rock On!!

8th Grade all about Extra-Curricular Activities

School is definitely in full force and the 8th graders lives are starting to get very busy as extra-curricular activities have begun.  JH softball girls are at Shatty and the JH baseball boys play at Vici tonight.  I however, am still struggling to get in my groove as I realized I didn't blog Friday or yesterday.  Yikes!!!!  You'de think I had ballgames or something to distract my brain.  lol. :)  Mrs. Gore---get with the program!!  Scheesh!
In class today we wrote about 2 fictional characters in our Journal.  All week we will work with these characters and write about them, as we begin learning about Narratives.  Vocab wb. less. #2 was assigned and those 4 wb pages are due Thurs.  On Friday we will have a quiz over those 10 words.  I also gave the students a Scavenger Hunt worksheet front & back that teaches them how to use the book--table of contents, index, etc.  This worksheet is due tomo.  Most students were half-way finished when we stopped to go to the library to check out a book for one of their book reports this 9 wks.  It is Student's Choice and they must read 2 books and give me two oral reports before the 9 wk period is up.
Enjoy your evening--Later Gators.  :)

Day Two Down--Looking to TGIF

Second day of school went off without a hitch.  All cogs in the wheel seem to be operating smoothly.  I know my body and brain isn't used to the all day every day hustle and bustle of it just yet. I gotta get to bed earlier!!!

Today in class we did a compare/contrast journal entry using a Vienn Diagram.  Students had to pick a character from a movie or book and then compare/contrast themselves with that character. 
We then read one of Kelley Gallagher's non-fiction news articles of the week.  It was about a girl protesting Seventeen Magazine's use of photoshopping pictures of models. She believes that these photos subliminally send the message that young girls and their bodies aren't "pretty" enough. I used some "MAXX" teaching concepts, along with peer reading to understand the text.  Both of these teaching ideas are based on Common Core info I've received this summer.  We will finish the article tomorrow.  I was very pleased at all students' input and participation in this group activity today.  Great job 8th Graders!!!!!!!!!

Welcome Back to School Leedey 8th Grade!!!!

Well, it's here weather we like it or not.  School is starting; it's still incredibly hot; Call Me Maybe by Carly Rae Jepson is the smash hit of the summer; and Team USA is kicking booty in the Olympics!!!Whoot Whoot!!!  I know you think you're not ready but I'm confident that will change once you get your groove going and embrace the rigorus challenges ahead!!  Check out this blog everyday as it will contain homework assignments, important dates, links to the school website, weekly lunch menu, weather info, and crazy rantings and postings by your crazy teacher!!  lol  :)  Hope you enjoyed your first day.  Hope to see ya back for Round 2 tomorrow.

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