Weekly Assignments

All grades have to have their speeches printed out and handed in Friday 1/28.

5th grade will have a religion test on Thursday

6th grade will have a religion test on Thusday

Spelling test for all grades of Friday

weekly vocabulary

Compromise (noun): A settlement of differences by mutual concessions; an agreement reached by adjustment of conflicting or opposing claims, principles, etc., by reciprocal modification of demands.

Overwhelm (verb): To overcome completely in mind or feeling.

Aspire (verb): To long, aim, or seek ambitiously; be eagerly desirous, esp. for something great or of high value.

Incomprehensible (adjective): Impossible to understand or comprehend; unintelligible.

Discredit (verb): To injure the credit or reputation of; defame

Weekly Lessons

ELA

5th
6th
7th
8th

Religion
5th
6th

Speech Contest Information

All grades must research their topics, the must be prepared to write their speeches.

8th grade: Students must write their introductions to their speeches. The introduction must be 30 seconds long. this is due Monday 1/24.
7th grade must had in their research on Monday 1/24.
6th and 8th Grade are expected to hand in their research on Tuesday 1/25
5th grade will begin writing their introduction/Body on monday 1/24.

Weekly Assignments

All Students 5,6,7, and 8 have to have the  research for their speech contest. this is Due Friday 21.

5th grade:

6th grade: Tuesday Religion finish the class work. pg 121 in text.

7th

8th

Reminders

Speech Contest

Students 5-8^th grades have started on the speech contest. Their topics have been handed in and accepted. It is now their job to research their invention, all of their research is due this Friday, the 21^st.  This is to make sure that the students are able to work on their speeches in class.

weekly vocabulary

Invention (noun): A new, useful process, machine, improvement, etc., that did not exist previously and that is recognized as the product of some unique intuition or genius, as distinguished from ordinary mechanical skill or craftsmanship.

Participation (noun): The fact of taking part, as in some action or attempt: participation in a celebration.

Diversity: The state or fact of being diverse; difference; unlikeness.

Idiom: (noun): An expression whose meaning is not predictable from the usual meanings of its constituent elements, as kick the bucket  or hang one's head 

Paraphrase(noun): A restatement of a text or passage giving the meaning in another form, as for clearness; rewording.

Lesson Plans

ELA
8th
7th
6th
5th
Religion
5th
6th

Religion midterms 6th and 5th grade

 Midterm topics  click midterm topic for link.

Weekly Assignments

5th
Monday : page 341 in ELA test practice A questions and answers

6th
Monday: page 405 practice a questions and answers

7th

8th
Monday: page 476 practice b questions and answers

Weekly Lessons

ELA
5th Grade
6th Grade
7th Grade
8th Grade
Religion
5th Grade
6th Grade

topics for ELA midterms

 ELA

midterm review 5^th grade

1.      Nouns: common and proper, possessive nouns ( singular and plural)

2.      Parts of a friendly letter

3.      Contractions

4.      Verb: irregular, tenses(good, bad)

5.      Pronouns: singular, plural pronouns, and possessive pronouns

6.      Adjectives : articles A, an, and the, adjectives to compare. Comparative and superlative adjectives.

7.      Capitalization  (12/ 8)

8.      4 types of sentences.

Midterm review 6^th grade.

1.                  Nouns : common, proper, abstract and, concrete nouns

3.                  When to add es ies s

4.                  Verbs :   Subject verb Agreement, verbs with direct object, verb tenses, and  Transitive and intransitive verbs

5.                  Compound words

6.              Conjunctions

7.                  The parts of a letter (friendly)  

8.                Haiku  5,7,5 =17

9.              Pronouns:  Subject and object pronoun, and  Personal pronouns 

midterm review 7^th grade

Noun

Common and proper

Verbs

Tenses of verbs

Irregular verbs

Adjectives

Comparative forms

Superlative forms

Be do have

Four kinds of sentences

Adverbs

Time manner place

Prepositions

Phrase

Aim midterm review 8^th grade

1.      Nouns : common, and proper

2.      Verbs: tenses ( good, bad)direct objects

3.      Adverbs: manner, and time

4.      Prepositions phrases, adjective, adverbs.

5.      Pronouns: personal, possessive

6.      Adjective and adverb clauses

7.      Simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences.