Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Upcoming test AND progress reports

Dear parents,

 

Students should be studying for their next Word Whiz Test on Friday.

 

Additionally, students were given a half sheet of paper with their average and missing work listed.  Please ask to see this paper.  The missing work on the list will drop the listed average if the assignments are not completed.  I offered lunch time and after school today, plus tomorrow morning, lunch, and after school for makeup work time.  Grades must be submitted to Edline tomorrow afternoon, so the missing work will need to be completed by then, or will have to be recorded as a zero.  

 

Even once missing work is put in as a zero, it can STILL be made up until the end of the marking period, though the progress report grade will stay the same and still impact eligibility.  I encourage students to do the work, even for late credit, or they miss out on the learning.  As I told the students today, I hate entering zeroes in my gradebook.

 

Have a nice night. 

 

Abby Wald

 

 

 

Thursday, October 25, 2012

7th Grade Extra Credit

7th graders have been offered the following EXTRA CREDIT assignment, due by 3 PM on Monday the 29th:

 

For a 40-point quiz grade, re-read Finn Mac Coul from the Medieval Tales book in my classroom.  Do this during free time -- lunch, study hall, after or before school -- in my presence. Then, create a timeline of the story with 20 events. 

 

Reminders:  Charter Day assembly Friday at 8:30;  FULL SCHOOL EVACUATION DRILL at 10 on Monday.

Abigail P. Wald
Fair Haven Grade School
Middle Level English Language Arts
Middle Team Co-Leader
802-265-3883, ext 249

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

homework

6th grade homework for tonight:  Complete review worksheet on chapters 1 – 5 of Where the Red Fern Grows.

Monday, October 22, 2012

Homework

Parents,

 

6th and 7th graders have a homework assignment tonight to write a SUMMARY of their out-of-class reading book (realistic fiction) using ten of their “Fun and Useful” words.  The words are:

Commence, treasury, vague, simian, notorious, tyro, significant, toil, lionize, jostle, heed, balk, juvenile, reap, culinary, delectable, judicious, combustible

 

7th graders also have homework this whole week:  to read the chapters in their in-class reading book that their group assigned, AND to do the work required of the role they selected. 

 

REMINDERS to all: 

Awards assembly tomorrow morning, in the gym, at 8:30. 

Supermarket BINGO items needed.

Fair Haven Charter Day assembly Friday morning, in the gym, at 8:30.

 

Thanks!

Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Red Fern Homework

6th graders have 14 words from Where the Red Fern Grows to define, copy from the text, and then write original sentences for.  This is due on 10/15. 


 

Monday, October 15, 2012

homework this week

Parents,

 

Homework for 7th graders this week:  Reading group assignments, continue in independent reading of "realistic fiction" for the month, any classwork (from stations) that is not completed in class.

 

Homework for 6th graders this week:  continue in independent reading of "realistic fiction" for the month, any classwork (from stations) that is not completed in class, probably a vocabulary assignment Tuesday night. 

 

Abigail P. Wald
Fair Haven Grade School
Middle Level English Language Arts
Middle Team Co-Leader
802-265-3883, ext 249

Thursday, October 11, 2012

homework tonight

7th graders in block ONE have a paragraph to write on Beowulf.  See yesterday's email for details.

 

7th graders in block TWO have various assignments based on their reading groups -- some are reading ten - fifteen pages, and some are writing a "journal" entry.

 

Students will have NECAP testing tomorrow morning, so please encourage an early bed time (I know how hard it will be to pull kids away fromt the vice-presidential debate, right?) and a good breakfast.  Two days of testing left!

 

Abigail P. Wald
Fair Haven Grade School
Middle Level English Language Arts
Middle Team Co-Leader
802-265-3883, ext 249

Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Homework 6 and 7

6th grade homework is to write the beginning of a story about a food fight.  It must be at least 5 sentences long, and it should set the stage for a good story -- characters, setting, conflict, et cetera.  In addition, the story beginning must include at least one example of alliteration and one example of onomatopoeia.

 

7th graders in the third block only (tomorrow this will be block one homework) have a constructed response paragraph to write about Beowulf.  They will begin with the following quotation from the story, and then prove  the quotation's truth (three parts) through details and examples:

          "They gave thanks for Beowulf.  Once he set his mind, he never backed down. Steadfast, right-hearted, to the end."


 

Tuesday, October 9, 2012

homework tonight

6th graders DO have homework tonight.  They were given a list of 10 vocabulary words from chapter one of Where the Red Fern Grows.  They have to look up the words, locate and copy the sentence the word is found in, and then write an original sentence using the word. 

 

Abigail P. Wald
Fair Haven Grade School
Middle Level English Language Arts
Middle Team Co-Leader
802-265-3883, ext 249