We're Back!

We're Back from a short break....

I enjoyed seeing everyone at conferences and hope you all had a nice extra-long weekend.  This week we will have a very full week.  We are learning all about writing a Personal Narrative and what ingredients are needed to write an awesome piece.  We are also doing all sorts of various activities with Figurative Language.  We will be having a spelling test on Friday this week that will cover the -tion and the -sion suffixes.  My math class will have a test on Friday as well covering Unit 6 in its entirety.  We will also be finishing up our Chapter projects in Social Studies towards the end of the week. 

A reminder that next Wednesday, November 10th we won't have school!

I hope to see everyone on Thursday evening this week at Interactive Family Curriculum Night!

Social Studies Chapter 2 Project Links

Here are some links to help you with our project:

As more are found, we will add them to the list or you can add them by leaving a comment.

Trail of Tears Information                 FolkTales Link                                   Folktales byTribe      

Native American Chart                    Southeast Native Americans               Some General Info.

More Trail of Tears

Today!

I was so excited when I saw all of the State Projects come in this morning!  They all look great and I can tell how much thought and effort was put into them.  I can't wait to hear each student present them to the class.  We received our first few responses today from Alabama and North Carolina's Tourism offices; I can't wait for more to come. 

This week we have another full and busy week of school.  In Social Studies, we will be starting our projects on Chapter 2.  The students will have a choice of 5 options of a project to do some research and complete an activity on something specific relating to Native Americans.  This will be our last week in music, so you have all survived the quarter of the recorder.  We have technology next quarter with Mrs. Rosenkoff.  We will continue to work on writing better sentences and at the same time we will also be learning more about nouns, abbreviations and titles.  We are also working really hard this week in wrapping up with Rules and completing our projects on this.  This project will count as our book report for the first quarter. 

I hope to see you all at conferences next week!