Mrs Nixon's blog

Reading - The Monsters are Due on Maple Street, video and test.  On to All Summer in a Day, another science fiction story.

Writing - finishing up our Narrative Essays using all Six Traits 

Grammar - Compound and complex sentences

Back to the Vocabulary Book - Unit 7 

Independent reading - Rebecca Caudill book choice.  Book reports due on May 28th. 

Spirit Week at Lincoln Hall!  Today was Pajama Day - Tuesday is Crazy Day, Wednesday is Hippie Day, Thursday is Beach Day and Friday is Bagels and Bingo!

We finish The Giver this week - last test on Friday.

We're still working on prepositions - keep memorizing!

We're done with Six Traits and now we're going to put them to use - get ready for a Narrative Essay.

 We're going to the library this week and our last book report is June 2.

Is spring here yet?

Well, at least there's a field trip on Friday!

Giver Test Wednesday on Chapters 13 - 18

Continue work on prepositions - the seaweed of grammar!

Continue work on the 6th Trait of Coonventions - punctuation galore.

Book Report on Fantasy Book due Monday, May 5. 

Spring is finally here!

This week we try to concentrate on...

The Giver - Test on Monday, then on to Chapters 13 - 17.  Don't forget to study your vocab for any possible "pop" quiz!

Adverb test on Tuesday, then on to prepositions.

Six Traits moves on to "Conventions", you know...punctuation, grammar, paragraphing, spelling and capitalization.

Book report due on May 5. 

IN THE THICK OF THINGS...

The Giver is just starting to get interesting - Read Chapters 9, 10, 11, 12 this week and study for a test on Chapters 7-12 for Monday.  Know your vocabulary - you njever know when there might be a pop quiz!

More adverbs this week - beginning our review with a test on Monday.

Six Traits - the trait of Fluency - we read our antiphonal poems on Wednesday and finish with a Fluency sentence game on Wednesday and Thursday.

Welcome back from spring break!

This week we start The Giver in reading.  We will read 1 chapter each day and answer questions on that chapter in our packets.  Be sure and study the vocabulary for any "pop quizzes"! 

We finish up adjectives this week with review pages from the Writer's Craft textbook.  We also will be writing 1 last poem as a part of the trait of Fluency.

Vocabulary will be suspended during our study of The Giver, since it contains its own vocabulary. 

Spring break is almost here!

Writing is the emphasis this week, with the FLUENCY essays due - Diffendoofer and Insectlopedia.

Homework for the break - READ!

 Wednesday is ASIA DAY!

Thursday is WELLNESS DAY!

HAVE A GREAT SPRING BREAK! 

The week of finishing things things up!

Verb test Tuesday

Vocabulary test Thursday

Coffee talks Wednesday - Friday 

We're looking forward to ASIA DAY next Wednesday. All late work must be completed by next Monday, March 17th, at 3;30, in order to participate. 

ISAT WEEK!

Your real homework is to get a good night's sleep, eat breakfast, bring some #2 pencils, and a book to read.   GOOD LUCK!

We will be reading our biographies in-class.  All biographies should be done by Thursday of this week.  We are also trying to find an internet article that complements our book by using the COWS in-class.

Vocabulary - Orange Book - Unit 4-6 (Cum. review)

                     Blue Book - Unit 7

Verbs p. 485, 490, 491, 492 in Writer's Craft 

Short week ahead due to Teacher Institute Day!

Reading test on Eleanor Roosevelt today - then on to reading about Jackie Robinson this week.  You need to be reading your biographies every night as they need to be completed by Thurday, March 6th.

Writing - we finish vocabulary Unit 6 this week with a test on Thursday.  We are still working on verbs.

If anyone would like to come in for a portfolio conference that couldn't make it last week, I will be available Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from 3 to 4:00.  Please call me or send a note with your child as to the day and time.