Week #6: Schedule, Videos & Winner of the Michael Vey#7 Contest!!

So...Michael Vey #7 The Final Spark is THE hot book right now. I purchased it this week will read it and bring it to school on Monday. Students who wanted to win wrote their names on the board in hopes of being the 1st student read the book! I put their names in a Random Selector and am happy to announce that...

Court D. is the WINNER!! 

Happy reading Court! All other students can get on the waiting list for the fantastic read.

It's been another fun week in Language Arts! We did our first CFA (common formative assessment) on Notice and Note and I'm so pleased at the hard work students demonstrated. The vast majority passed, including those who attended reteaching, and it was just a great week all around!

Here is our schedule for next week. I'm excited to dive into Scope magazine & NoRedInk which are 2 awesome tools that will do wonders in building reading and writing stamina, mastery of grammar and just having a good time with language.

Some students are falling behind. It's critical they read at home at lest 20 minutes a day. I'll be talking to students who are not caught-up on reading and see what I can do to help them. We might be calling home as well. I appreciate the ongoing support and encourage you to email me at rachel.robins@washk12.org or call after school hours at 625-4742.

Have a wonderful weekend! Looking forward to the Human Plot Elements presentations on Monday (I'll post pictures next week.). Thank you!

Week #6

September 18-September 22

Monday, September 18th

Genre-of-the-Week: Mystery

New Class Jobs

Prefix-of-the-Week: Com/Con

Present Plot Chart projects

Tuesday, September 19th 

NoRedInk assessment 

Pass-off books

Wednesday, September 20th

Library

Thursday, September 21st

Reading
Quick Write
Scope Magazine: notes on paragraph writing
Honors: Newspaper Day

Friday, September 22nd
Plot Quiz
Desert Tortoise Writing
Reading
Honors: Writer's Workshop w/guest writers!

Did you see our school and conesite made State News? Big shout-out to Mr. Bozarth and the World Wide Warrior crew for doing some amazing service learning:) Proud of you guys! 

...and an awesome message from Foreign Figures & Jacob Lee who did our anti-bullying assembly/concert!

Reading Matters!

The great news is that it's never too late to improve your ability to reading. The required mins. make all the difference because the #1 way to improve reading is...(wait for it)...reading!!