Wednesday, August 30, 2017

Announcements and Reminders for Wednesday/Thursday, August 30/31, 2017:                            School Pictures will be taken during math classes on Thursday and Friday, August 31 and September 1. Cavetime will begin on Tuesday, September 5.  Scholastic Book Orders:   If you'd like to order Scholastic Books online, and benefit our classroom, go to http://pcool.scholastic.com/parentordering/login.jsp, register, and enter code GKLJW. To order through me without going online, bring me the filled out order form and a check written to Scholastic Book Orders.  I'll be sending in orders on September 15, or sooner if I receive orders totalling $25 or more. Order forms are available on the back counter near the door. Your disclosure document signatures (with the pre-assessment on the back)  are due by today.  You can still hand them in after today, but you will receive less points.  Hand them in to the top wire basket for your class.

Targets for Today: I can more effectively use the Internet to do well in school, and to do research.

Today’s  Agenda: Your disclosure document signatures (with the pre-assessment on the back) are due by today.  You can still hand them in after today, but you will receive less points.  Hand them in to the top wire basket for your class. 1. Brief, quiet, individual reading time. 2. Computer lab 224.  instructions Receive your folder/computer number, and  Receive a packet of information to use as you complete the assignments. Leave your backpacks in the classroom, Take a book to read in case you finish early, and a pencil for notes.  Walk QUIETLY to the lab.  In the lab we will have a quiet, individual working time.  If you need help, ask your teacher or Mrs. Dansie, our computer lab specialist.  Sit down at your assigned computer. Log in to the computer using your active directory login: User name: What comes in your school email BEFORE the @ Password:  The password you set. Open a browser.  Follow the directions on your handout.   Answer the questions on the handout.  Find the information about Lexile Tests and Levels on the menu. Find the information about Lexile Tests and Levels on the menu, as well as about Internet Safety.  Look for this box at the end of this post.  😒   Both A3 and A4 were too loud in the halls today.  Next time we leave the classroom as a group, we will need to go in a more orderly way.

If You Were Absent: Complete your reading make-up. You may pick up the handout from class or download it on Skyward or here: Using the Internet.docx  Complete this assignment at home, and turn it in as soon as possible.

Vocabulary: URL:  the address of a web page

Monday, August 28, 2017

Announcements and Reminders: for Thursday, August 28, 2017                           4H Clubs begin on Monday, August 28.  The 4H leader will be here August 23rd after school and Friday, August 25 during  both lunches for students to sign up for clubs. School Pictures will be taken during math classes on Thursday and Friday, August 31 and September 1. Cavetime will begin on Tuesday, September 5.  Scholastic Book Orders:  Use our class code when you order online:  GKLJW. Information for this class:  Bring your own pens and pencils.  It also helps to have your own lined paper.  If you have a book you want to read or that you need to read for your English or another class, bring it to read during our individual reading time. Go to this post for a list of needed materials for this class: Welcome to Reading 7 -- 2017-2018 -- Back-to-School Shopping Suggestions

Targets for Today: I can read quietly and individual.  I can show what I know about words. I can read fluently.

Today’s  Agenda: 1. Find your assigned seat.     Turn in your disclosure signature sheets, if you have them ready.     Don't forget to fill out the back 2. Select a book to read and read quietly for about 20 minutes. (Ms. Dorsey be administering the San Diego Quick Test of reading skills to students -- one at a time.)   Fill out your reading log.   Fill out your reading log. # Date B N M O Title -- Use ditto marks (“)  when continuing the same material.  Material read/Explanation/Read from page__ to page __ Minutes Read Total Hours Read Ex 8/20/13 x Scholastic Scope, Sept. 2013 pages 4-9  “Malala the  Powerful” 15     If you're absent, or were off-task during reading time, or didn't fill out your log, pick up a pink make-up sheet and do the homework. 3.   One-Minute Partner Fluency Practice        Each partner gets a page protector and a copy of the poem to read.       Each pair gets one eraser and one white-board marker.        Put the poem into the page protector.        With a classmate you will take turns reading the passage.        You will be timed for one minute.        Your partner will follow along and mark any errors and mark where you ended.         Notice how far you read.  Figure out how many words you read, then subtract any errors.           Write it down.                 ______ wpm MAKE SURE YOU FILL OUT THE DATE, PASSAGE NUMBER OR LETTERS, AND WORDS PER MINUTE EACH TIME YOU HAVE HAD A TURN TO DO A TIMED READING.            Fill out a column on your graph for each time you read. Date 8-22-17 8-22-17 Passage SCSS SCSS Usually this will be a number! Words Per Minute 143 153 After you receive your folders, your fluency graph and your sheet protector with the poem inside will stay in the folder.  4.  Set up your folders.  Line up with the rest of the class by last name.  On the flap, after the number, write your  Last name, First name Example:s Jones, Jill Smith, Howard 5.  Complete a crossword using vocabulary from computers and Internet.

If You Were Absent: See above.   To make up for the reading time you missed, read at home for 20 minutes, record the title, and get a parent signature confirming that you read. You could download and print this file.  To open it, click on this link, then click on the download tap. Reading Log Make-Up Log 2015.doc

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Thursday, August 24, 2017

Announcements and Reminders: for Thursday, August 24, 2017                          Back to School Pre-Game Dance this Friday! 7th and 8th Graders: bring $2 and come down to the girls’ gym right after school and dance your hearts out until 4. You can make class changes through Friday, August 25 without paying a fee.   4H Clubs begin on Monday, August 28.  The 4H leader will be here August 23rd after school and Friday, August 25 during  both lunches for students to sign up for clubs. School Pictures will be taken during math classes on Thursday and Friday, August 31 and September 1. Cavetime will begin on Tuesday, September 5.  Scholastic Book Orders:  Use our class code when you order online:  GKLJW. Information for this class:  Bring your own pens and pencils.  It also helps to have your own lined paper.  If you have a book you want to read or that you need to read for your English or another class, bring it to read during our individual reading time. Go to this post for a list of needed materials for this class: Welcome to Reading 7 -- 2017-2018 -- Back-to-School Shopping Suggestions

Targets for Today: I can read quietly and individual.  I can show what I know about words. I can read fluently.

Today’s  Agenda: 1. Find your assigned seat. (A4, please remind me to hand out your Hall Passes. )     Turn in your disclosure signature sheets, if you have them ready.     Don't forget to fill out the back 2. Select a book to read and read quietly for about 20 minutes. (Ms. Dorsey began administering the San Diego Quick Test of reading skills to students -- one at a time.)   Fill out your reading log.   Notice the portion of the whiteboard for Reading 7.  3.  One-Minute Partner Fluency Practice        Each partner gets a page protector and a copy of the poem to read.       Each pair gets one eraser and one white-board marker.        Put the poem into the page protector.        With a classmate you will take turns reading the passage.        You will be timed for one minute.        Your partner will follow along and mark any errors and mark where you ended.         Notice how far you read.  Figure out how many words you read, then subtract any errors.           Write it down.                 ______ wpm MAKE SURE YOU FILL OUT THE DATE, PASSAGE NUMBER OR LETTERS, AND WORDS PER MINUTE EACH TIME YOU HAVE HAD A TURN TO DO A TIMED READING.            Fill out a column on your graph for each time you read. Date 8-22-17 8-22-17 Passage SCSS SCSS Usually this will be a number! Words Per Minute 143 153 After you receive your folders, your fluency graph and your sheet protector with the poem inside will stay in the folder.  4. Complete a crossword using vocabulary from computers and Internet.

If You Were Absent: See above.   To make up for the reading time you missed, read at home for 20 minutes, record the title, and get a parent signature confirming that you read. You could download and print this file.  To open it, click on this link, then click on the download tap. Reading Log Make-Up Log 2015.doc

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Tuesday, August 22, 2017

Announcements and Reminders: for Tuesday, August 22, 2017                          Back to School Pre-Game Dance this Friday! 7th and 8th Graders: bring $2 and come down to the girls’ gym right after school and dance your hearts out until 4. You can make class changes through Friday, August 25 without paying a fee.   4H Clubs begin on Monday, August 28.  The 4H leader will be here August 23rd after school and Friday, August 25 during  both lunches for students to sign up for clubs. School Pictures will be taken during math classes on Thursday and Friday, August 31 and September 1. Cavetime will begin on Tuesday, September 5.  Scholastic Book Orders:  Use our class code when you order online:  GKLJW. Information for this class:  Bring your own pens and pencils.  It also helps to have your own lined paper.  If you have a book you want to read or that you need to read for your English or another class, bring it to read during our individual reading time. Go to this post for a list of needed materials for this class: Welcome to Reading 7 -- 2017-2018 -- Back-to-School Shopping Suggestions

Targets for Today: I can know and follow the rules and procedures for this classroom.

Today’s  Agenda: 1.  Find your seat on the seating charts.  2. Select a book to read -- from the books on the desks, and read it for a few minutes.   Notice the portion of the whiteboard for Reading 7.  3, Book Pass -- to get acquainted with some of the books in our classroom.   The teacher will tell you which way to pass the books.  Look at the cover.  Read the blurb on the back of the book.  Fill out a line on your log with the title.    Book Pass Log.doc Begin reading at the beginning of the book, and keep reading until you're told to stop -- about three mintues.  Fill out the rest of that line on your book pass log.  Then do the same with the next book.  Repeat.  Not-So-Sustained Silent Reading 4. Book frenzy -- When directed to, politely negotiate with classmates to get back the book you would most like to read during the next _5-8 _ minutes. Receive your blue Reading Log and fill it out for this book.  5. We will discuss classroom policies and procedures. You will receive your disclosure document. A3 received their hall passes. A4, please remind me to hand out yours next time.  6. One-Minute Partner Fluency Practice        Each partner gets a page protector and a copy of the poem to read.       Each pair gets one eraser and one white-board marker.        Put the poem into the page protector.        With a classmate you will take turns reading the passage.        You will be timed for one minute.        Your partner will follow along and mark any errors and mark where you ended.         Notice how far you read.  Figure out how many words you read, then subtract any errors.           Write it down.                 ______ wpm MAKE SURE YOU FILL OUT THE DATE, PASSAGE NUMBER OR LETTERS, AND WORDS PER MINUTE EACH TIME YOU HAVE HAD A TURN TO DO A TIMED READING.            Fill out a column on your graph for each time you read. Date 8-22-17 8-22-17 Passage SCSS SCSS Usually this will be a number! Words Per Minute 143 153 Let's fill it out together now. After you receive your folders, your fluency graph and your sheet protector with the poem inside will stay in the folder.

If You Were Absent: See above.   To make up for the reading time you missed, read at home for 20 minutes, record the title, and get a parent signature confirming that you read. You could download and print this file.  To open it, click on this link, then click on the download tap. Reading Log Make-Up Log 2015.doc

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