Nice Rain--Fall's Just Around the Corner!!

We got a nice rain over the weekend and it brought some cooler weather, which I'm thankful for.  This also means that my favorite Holiday is right around the corner!!
Both softball and baseball teams won Districts, so our teams advance to Regionals.  Next week is the State Tournament--hope both groups can make it.

Here's the 8th assignments for the week:

Vocabulary Less. #8 workbook due Thursday.
Spelling Less. #8 Workbook and Test due Friday.

Read students' descriptive paragraphs "What am I" aloud in class and try to guess objects.

Crazy Ads using similes due tomorrow.  No power point this time.

Use the creative writing exercises with pictures from various saved websites throughtout week, stressing using skills that develop a good paragraph, while using the writing process, and building up to a 3 paragraph essay.  Do this the rest of week.

Cool Weather Makes It Seem Like Fall

We've experienced a "cooling off" period in regards to the weather, and boy is it NICE!!!  Love Fall and the cool weather and all of the colors, smells, and activities that go with it.  Baseball and softball play-offs begin, football has started, basketball is quickly approaching, and the State Fair has ended--all signs that Fall is right around the corner.  Can't Wait!!

Here are the assignments for the week of Sept. 23-27, 2013 in 8th Lang. Arts:

Vocab. Wb. Less. #7=Due Thursday.  We are skipping the Review.
Spelling Less. #7=Workbook and test due Friday.

Crazy Ads Assignment teaching Alliteration with Power Point or Prezi demonstration due Wed.  Might give kids an extra day and make them due Thurs. if they need time to work on the computers.  Will determine that after class on Tues.  We will do the same assignment again next Monday, but use Similes instead of Alliteration. 

Creative Writing Paragraph/Essay Assignment--I have a website that I pull various creative writing prompts off of.  We discuss the Process of Writing and then pick one of the prompts.  We will do this Thursday and Friday, a different prompt and assignment each day.  Thursday will be just a paragraph, Friday will be a 3 paragraph essay.

Life is Fast and Furious for 8th Grade

Wow--time certainly flies by when you are busy and hard at learning!!  We are quickly approaching the end of the first 9 weeks of school.  The 8th graders are continuing to work hard in class, but still tend to do a little too much "daydreaming" when I'm lecturing!!!  Grrrr!!  Guess that's just part of being 13 years old.  lol  :)

Assignments for this week:

Spelling Wb Less. #6=Review  due Friday and test over first 20 of the 50 review words.

Vocab Wb. Less. #6=Due Thurs.

Consumer Report Informational Text article=Write a good 5 sentence summary paragraph over an article of students' choice.  Then write down 2 things that were strange/unique/odd/interesting from article and 1 thing that the student didn't understand.  Will hand in on Wednesday and then give an oral report that day as well.

Skills Workbook p.80-86=Sentence Fragment Review=Due Friday

Students need to remember that their one oral Book Report for my class is due on Oct. 8th.  That is only 3 weeks away.  Oct. 8th is the LAST  day to give the oral report.  I do not recommend waiting until the last day to give it. 

Journals are also due Oct. 8th.  I will give the journal grade scale some time in the next two weeks.