Thursday, November 21, 2013


Language Arts:

Writing:  The students are working on a project involving figures of speech and song lyrics.
Reading: Currently reading, The Boy Who Dared

Math 5th/6th:

The students are learning how to round whole numbers and decimals.


Math 7th/8th:

The students are learning how to use the distributive property and combine like terms.

Thursday, November 14, 2013

Language Arts:

The students are doing a great job editing their persuasive essays.

In reading class, the students are learning a lot about WWII Germany, from the book,
The Boy Who Dared.



Math 5th/6th:

Fifth and Sixth grade math students have been working on a Thanksgiving dinner decimal word problem project. All of the students worked very hard to complete the projects.



Math 7th/8th:

The students have been working on solving multi-step problems with positive and negative integers.

Wednesday, November 6, 2013

Language Arts

The class is currently reading The Boy Who Dared by Susan Campbell Bartoletti.

Next week, in writing the students will be practicing how to write essays that compare and contrast facts and ideas.


Math 5th/6th

The students will be practicing how to write and solve word problems that involve decimals.


Math 7th/8th

Next week, the students will learn how to multiply and divide using negative and positive integers.