Week 5: September 8-September 12

We've had a great week tackling sentence types.  I've been incorporating Whole Brain teaching with gestures to help students have more of a fun, hands-on learning experience.  I'm delighted with the good reading I'm seeing happening.  The benefits of reading are so powerful and positively influence all areas of a student's life.  Remember to encourage home reading (at least 30 mins, 5 days a week) and I'll monitor progress and provide encouragement and incentives here at school.

I know I sound like a broken record, but this group of students is fantastic!  I love how they rally to help each other, are game to try anything in class and just really bring sunshine to the classroom every day.  Thanks for raising such amazing kids!

Here is the schedule for this week.  As always, please email me at rachel.robins@washk12.org or call 435-652-4742 if you have any questions or concerns.

Nation-in-the-News

to present Friday, September 12th

2nd Period: Luke, Sophia, Braden, Baylee

3rd Period:  Sage, Dylan, Monte

4th Period:  Joshua, Bailey, Kaden

5th:   Alexis, Christine, McKena

6th:  Chris, Seth, Mike

Monday, September 8

*10 minutes independent reading

Paragraph Instruction: Topic Sentence, Details

2nd Period Honors:

All About Paragraphs

Tuesday, September 9

*10 minutes independent reading
Paragraph Instruction: Sequence, Transitions, Conclusions

2nd Period Honors: 
Journalism Mini-Lesson
Newspaper Day 

Wednesday, September 10

 *10 minutes independent reading
Random-Student-of-the-Week
Flyswatter Sentence/Paragraph Review Game

Thursday, September 11

Scope Magazine: "Dear Future"
Library Day

Friday, September 12

*10 minutes independent reading/reading conferences

Genre-of-the-Week: Science Fiction
Nation-in-the-News

Sentences/Paragraph Final Assessment 

Why Access to Books Really Matters!!