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.

 

 

  

First 9wks Going Fast

The first 9wks is flying by quickly.  Hard to believe we have PT Conf. already tomorrow night. 

Spelling and Vocab Wb Less. #3 are due Thursday (tomo) since no school on Friday.  Spelling test then as well.

This week we have been working on our Compare/Contrast Essay=How certain food items are alike, and how they are different.  We learned what makes a good introductory paragraph, as well as body paragraphs.  Then we learned how to revise our first original rough draft.  We will continue with these on Tues.

HAVE A GREAT 4 DAY LABOR DAY WEEKEND!!!!!!

8th Grade Hard Work Continues

The 8th Graders are continuing to get their work done in my class and stay hooked up for the most part.  Today we graded the spelling workbook Less. #2 and graded the test.  Most grades were acceptable.  Some were excellent!!  So no homework tonight!

Tomorrow I will be gone.  The kids need to work on Vocab Wb. Less. #2.  Due Monday.

Next week we will continue with our compare/contrast essays.

Good Luck to both HS baseball and softball teams as they start the Leedey Tournaments for each sport. 

Wild Wednesday

Lots of activities going on today here at school!!  But the 8th graders are working diligently.
Tomorrow we are taking the spelling test and grading the spelling workbook since I will be gone Friday.  I let the class have most of the class period to work on this. 
The class finally received their Vocab workbooks.  On Friday they will be working on Less. #2 which is due Monday.  After that, Vocab will normally be due each Thurs.
Tomorrow we will take our Venn Diagrams and begin working on putting that info into a 4 paragraph essay.  This rough draft essay will be due Monday.

Venn Diagram and M&M's......WTW???

Today in class we started a compare/contrast group assignment with a Venn Diagram and various food items.  Oreos, vanilla wafers, m&ms, Skittles, peanuts, and orange slices were given to the 4 groups.  They had to pick two and using the Venn Diagram, compare and contrast.  Tomorrow we will do another comparision and begin learning how to put the information into an essay.  This essay will be due Friday.

Spelling Less. #2 Due Fri
Spelling Test=Friday
Vocab Wb Less. #2= Due next Monday 8-26.  They will get the workbooks tomo or Thurs.

Welcome Back with a BANG!!!

Welcome back to Leedey Schools!!  Hope everyone's summer was spectacular!  Mine was definitely too short!

This blog is for my 8th Grade Writing class or Language Arts, as it's called on the school schedule.  I will post interesting happenings from class and also homework assignments.

This week we went over the syllabus, got our Spelling workbooks, and did an assignment over non-fiction writing from a magazine.  The students had to paraphrase the article of their choice, re-write the title, pick a favorite quote and write a reflection, etc. We listened to half of the class Friday.  We will finish these on Monday.  Check out the picture below and ask your child who's article that the picture was from.












Have a great weekend!!!!