Around the World - Across the Years

A Year Long Voyage of a Middle School Class

Friday

March 14th, 2008 · No Comments

I apologize for the confusion with yesterday’s post. I accidentally created a new page for Thursday (twice!) rather than creating a new “post”. Well, live and learn! So for those of you who wanted to comment on Thursday’s entry - try again!
History - We took the economics vocabulary quiz & the geography quiz on the [...]

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Tags: History · Reading · Spelling

Tuesday

March 11th, 2008 · No Comments

In history today, we watched and discussed another video of sixth graders modeling some economic principles using the example of a summer drama production - see class notes.
In reading we took our spelling trial test and began work on the readers’ theater script for One-Eye! Two-Eyes! Three Eyes!  We are working on readers’ theater to [...]

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Tags: History · Reading · Spelling

Thursday

March 6th, 2008 · 3 Comments

Today, in history, we worked on attachment I (See Class Notes - Partners in Trade). We will use this information on our import - export test on Friday.
In reading, we corrected our word ladder, play Sparkle, and read.
Test Warning - Spelling Test on Lesson 134 (left column) Friday
Quiz warning - Southern Europe map quiz [...]

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Tags: History · Reading · Spelling · Uncategorized

Spelling for February 25th - 29th

February 25th, 2008 · No Comments

This week we are working on the ten words on the right column of Lesson 133. We have moved to spelling 10 words a week rather than 20. Several students were having trouble with the 20 words. We are now learning 10 words a week and looking for improvement!

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Tags: Reading