Good Afternoon,
The Grade 7/8 class have had a very busy week. Hopefully they aren't too exhausted!
ELA & Religion--Power Paragraph Journals and Devotional Journals are assessed at the end of every week. They are given class time to complete both and are kept in the classroom so they have no reason not to have them completed, WELL! Students have been given their Reading Response Journals and should have been reading at home all week to accomplish their 150 minutes. They will be completing their first entry in class on Monday. Some students still need duo-tang folders. They are loosing their notes and assignments without them. We will be working on sentence structure this week and our new Autobiographical Project. Students should be asking you for pictures and information about their lives.
Math--Both grades have completed Unit 1 of Chapter 1. They both had a pop quiz today as well!Social Studies--Students have been discussing ancient cultures
Science--Students have learned characteristics of living things, worked on cell theory and will begin learning about the microscope and view cells next week.
French--Students continued to work on school vocabulary.
Entertainment books are due on Monday. Either the book or the money for the book with other orders must be handed in.
Again, the students have also been asked to bring home their agendas on Fridays and have parents review them and then return them to me on Monday a.m. so I can check for signatures and communication. IT IS UP TO THE STUDENT TO BRING THE AGENDA TO YOU! I am trying to teach them organization and responsibility as they need this for high school.
Progress at school has not gone as well as I had hoped. In class work has not been completed to potential for most students and I have spent way too much time re-iterating instructions, repeating expectations, cleaning up after students and making routines work. It is important for everyone to follow directions and routines. I am hoping that after a week, routines have been placed and wasted time completing in class work and repeating information should end. Common rules such as "not talking while the teacher talks" seem very difficult for some students as well as keeping my things IN MY DESK and IN MY LOCKER are incredibly difficult. I continue to work with the students but am enforcing that in high school, their property would be stolen or gone if not kept in its proper location and organizing themselves will be their priority alone. In ELA and Math, classwork has been given but not homework. If they didn't work diligently in class, they had homework. I have given out zeroes for in class assignments that were simply not done or not handed in. I cannot assess things that are not here when sufficient time has been given to complete assignments in class.
Of course this doesn't apply to all students but I wanted all the parents to know how I will be handling in class assignments, etc.
Thanks for your understanding!
Pray for us!
Lorelee Bishop
