DEAR Wednesday, Oct 31 2007 

Students worked on a prefix and suffix page that is due Thurs.

Students also took a quiz on Volcanoes and a timed reading. 

Language Arts Wednesday, Oct 31 2007 

All CORE classes.

Students are finishing their common assessment test. 

Narrative final copies are due Friday.

Language Arts Websites-Keep in mind that most of these sites are K-8 and some of the games are for younger grades.  I will continue to add sites as I find them.

www.teachervision.fen.com/reading-and-language-arts/activity/5831.html

classroom.jc-schools.net/basic/la.html

www.funbrain.com/cgi-bin/getskill_s

http://www.readwritethink.org/

www.visuwords.com

www.scholastic.com

DEAR Friday, Oct 26 2007 

Free Reading Friday.  All students were reading their books.

Language Arts Friday, Oct 26 2007 

Block Sceduling-CORE 3 and 4

We discussed personification and varying sentence length.

Narrative writing rough drafts are due Monday.  We went over the scoring rubic.

Language Arts Websites-Keep in mind that most of these sites are K-8 and some of the games are for younger grades.  I will continue to add sites as I find them.

www.teachervision.fen.com/reading-and-language-arts/activity/5831.html

classroom.jc-schools.net/basic/la.html

www.funbrain.com/cgi-bin/getskill_s

http://www.readwritethink.org/

www.visuwords.com

www.scholastic.com

DEAR Thursday, Oct 25 2007 

Reviewed homophones, prefixes, and suffixes.

We read Volcanoes.

No homework.

Language Arts Thursday, Oct 25 2007 

Block Sceduling-CORE 1 and 2

We discussed personification and varying sentence length.

Narrative writing rough drafts are due Monday.  We went over the scoring rubic.

Language Arts Websites-Keep in mind that most of these sites are K-8 and some of the games are for younger grades.  I will continue to add sites as I find them.

www.teachervision.fen.com/reading-and-language-arts/activity/5831.html

classroom.jc-schools.net/basic/la.html

www.funbrain.com/cgi-bin/getskill_s

http://www.readwritethink.org/

www.visuwords.com

www.scholastic.com

DEAR Wednesday, Oct 24 2007 

No DEAR class today. 

Language Arts Wednesday, Oct 24 2007 

All CORE Classes

We reviewed the plot line for Rikki-tikki-tavi.

Vocabulary page 133 was due today.

We reviewed adding details and worked on a “hook” for their narratives.

Language Arts Websites-Keep in mind that most of these sites are K-8 and some of the games are for younger grades.  I will continue to add sites as I find them.

www.teachervision.fen.com/reading-and-language-arts/activity/5831.html

classroom.jc-schools.net/basic/la.html

www.funbrain.com/cgi-bin/getskill_s

http://www.readwritethink.org/

www.visuwords.com

www.scholastic.com

DEAR Tuesday, Oct 23 2007 

We reviewed metaphors, similes, and prefixes.

Vocabulary page was due today.

No homework.

Language Arts Tuesday, Oct 23 2007 

CORE 3 and 4

Reviewed Rikki-tikki-tavi and applied events of the story to the plot line.

Vocabulary page due Wed.

Introduced personification.

Narratives-adding details to your writing.  Students need to start writing their rough drafts.  Rough drafts will be due Friday.

Language Arts Websites-Keep in mind that most of these sites are K-8 and some of the games are for younger grades.  I will continue to add sites as I find them.

www.teachervision.fen.com/reading-and-language-arts/activity/5831.html

classroom.jc-schools.net/basic/la.html

www.funbrain.com/cgi-bin/getskill_s

http://www.readwritethink.org/

www.visuwords.com

www.scholastic.com

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