Thursday, May 14, 2009

Activity Day!

Our all-school activity day was a complete success! It was fun being able to teach all the grade levels a lesson.
6th and 7th Grade are taking their Matering Vocabulary test tomorrow.
6th Grade also needs to have Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Ch 6 questions done by tomorrow.
8th Grade will be taking their Lesson 30 Spelling Test tomorrow.

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

I Love Springtime!

6th Grade Work:
Religion: We finished up Chapter 18 and are moving onto Chapter 19. We won't be testing over either of these chapters and we will be starting Family Life next week.
Writing: Poetry: descriptive adjectives
Spelling: Continue working on Unit 1 of Mastering Vocabulary

7th Grade Work:
Religion: Chapter 23 Test was today. Be sure to know the Luminous mysteries by Friday! We will be starting Family Life on Wednesday.
Spelling: Continue working on Unit 2 of Mastering Vocabulary.
Poetry: Diamonte poems

8th Grade Work:
We started Family Life today!
Spelling: Lesson 30 Work is due Friday

Monday, May 11, 2009

Beautiful Spring Weather


We experienced an awesome trip to Chicago! We had beautiful weather, the tulips were gorgeous and the girls made memories to last a lifetime! I am so glad and honored to have been a part of it!

Work for Monday included:
6th Grade:
Religion: We are going to wrap up Chapters 18 and 19 this week and move onto Family Life next week. We will not be testing over those chapters (18 and 19).
Spelling: We have finished the Words to Go book and will be working on Mastering Vocabulary which contains the structure of words. We will continue to test over the spelling and meaning of the given words for the Unit they work on each week. Unit ! test is on Friday.

7th Grade:
Spelling: Unit 2 Mastering Vocabulary work and test is on Friday.
Literature: We continued the read-aloud Things Hoped For.
Religion: Ch 23 Test is tomorrow; we will begin Family Life on Wednesday

8th Grade:
Spelling: Lesson 30 work and test this week
Literature:
Off Season

Thursday, May 7, 2009

8th Grade is Chicago Bound


The middle school students worked so hard cleaning the cemetery today. We have some hard workers here at St. Joseph School!
There will be 2 subs for both Mrs. Thelen and I tomorrow. We are taking the train to Chicago for the 8th grade trip.

6th and 7th Grade will be taking Lesson 30 Spelling and Vocabulary Test tomorrow!

Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Another beautiful day!

Don't forget rakes and gloves to clean the cemetery tomorrow!
TODAY'S WORK:
Grade 6:
Religion: ch 17 test tomorrow
Spelling: pg 147
Englsih: Ch 13 test tomorrow

Grade 7:
Spelling: Lesson 30
English: WE published our Numerical poems today

Grade 8:
Literature: We continued reading Off Season

Tuesday, May 5, 2009

TUESDAY


Today's Work:
6th Grade:
English: Ch 13 Review due tomorrow
Spelling: pg 146

7th Grade:
Religion: We designed trading cards to represent our role model.
Spelling: Lesson 30
Language Arts: Numerical Poems... we will publish them tomorrow

8th Grade:
English: Ch 14 test was today
Spelling: Lesson 30
Literature: Off Season

Monday, May 4, 2009

What a beautiful spring day!

Work for today includes:
6th Grade:
Religion: We will be having May Crowning tomorrow so our chapter 17 test will be on Thursday.
Spelling: pg 145 and cursive sentences are due tomorrow

7th Grade:
Spelling: Lesson 30
Lilterature: We read aloud Things Hoped For

8th Grade:
Spelling: Lesson 30
English: Ch 14 test is tomorrow.
Literature: Off Season