Week of April 27 - May 1, 2015

ELA

We are on the 2nd week of the 6th six weeks. We will be working on a couple of projects this week. We will start by writing an Expository essay on (Your Ideal School). We will continue by making a brochure and a flyer, promoting your ideal school. Also, we will go over the different kind of punctuation. Lets make this week a great one. 

W.W.
We will continue to have fun exploring and analyzing SAT words.



Reminders:

Monday-GT Projects
Tuesday-GT Projects
Wednesday-Wear Autism T-Shirt
Thursday-Wear University T-Shirt, Plant Tree
Friday-Wear Falcon Spirit T-Shirt 



*Deadline for Peter Piper Pizza Lock-In $25.00
May Day

Week of April 20-24, 2015

We have worked all year to get you ready for this week's tests. Its all on you, remember that you are prepared for this and that you will do it.  The best of luck to every one of you taking the test and remember that together we will SOAR!!!

Reminders:
Monday: STAAR Math 8th Grade
Tuesday: STAAR Math 6th & 7th Grade
STAAR Social Studies 8th Grade
Wednesday:STAAR Reading 6th & 7th Grade

STAAR Science 8th Grade

Thursday:Field Day
Friday: Autism Walk @ Joe R. Sanchez Stadium 9:00

Week of April 20-24

ELA:
  Lets give it all this week!!! Its the last week of the 5th six weeks.  We will continue to write our essay (The Most Important Lesson). Also, since this week is the last week of the 5th six weeks we will be reviewing for our sic weeks test on Friday. Remember together we will SOAR!

W.W. 
We will continue to explore the wonders of words. 

WEEK OF APRIL 6-10, 2015

ELA
This week we will be learning about prepositions. We will learn what a prepositions is and how we apply them in our daily language.  We will also start writing an essay this week. Students make sure that you turn in all missing assignments. The following is a website that will be very helpful to you this week.  in this page the define a preposition, and some examples to help you better understand what prepositions are and how they are used. 

http://www.english-grammar-revolution.com/what-is-a-preposition.html

W.W.
We will continue with Lesson 5 this week. Get ready for this exciting week.

Week of March 30-April 6, 2015

ELA:
This week we will continue to work on nouns and adjectives. Also going to be working on elaborating sentences.  Make sure to turn in all missing assignments.  

W. W.:
We will continue to discuss lesson 4.  Lets continue to have fun, exploring the wonder of words.

Good luck to all 7th and 8th graders taking the STAAR test this week. Remember that you can do it. 

Together you will SOAR!!!

Reminders:

Monday: STAAR 

Tuesday : STAAR

Wednesday: 

Thursday: University T-shirt

Friday: Spirit T-Shirt

              Early release

              Panoramic Picture money due 

*$100 for the end-of-year field trip due 

Week of March 23-27

ELA
This week we will continue to write our final draft for our essay. Also, we will go over nouns, pronouns, verbs and adverbs. The following are some websites that will give you a better understanding of what these are and how they are used.


https://www.sinclair.edu/centers/tlc/pub/handouts_worksheets/grammar_punctuation_writing/nouns_and_pronouns.pdf

http://www.tameri.com/edit/nouns.

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/adverbs.htm


Wonderful Words

This week we will start with lesson four.  We will continue to explore the wonders of SAT words. 

Reminders: 
Monday:
Thuesday:
Wendsday:
Thursday: University T-shirt
Friday: Spirit T-shirt

* Ens of Year Trip Money Due on April 3rd 

Week of March 16-20

ELA:
Welcome back! Its that time again, to get back on task.  This week we will be going over the different types of sentences. As we all know there are four different types of sentences which are declarative, imperative, exclamatory and interrogative. We will be going to be discussing the different characteristics of each type of sentence. The following sites will help you have a better understanding of what each of they type of sentence is. 

http://grammar.about.com/od/d/g/declsenterm.htm
http://www.studyzone.org/testprep/ela4/o/typesofsentencesl.cfm

Wonder Words:
We will continue to discuss and analyse SAT words.