Cathy Fearing

WEEK OF 4/18

CRCT will wrap up on Monday and then we will be doing our final assessments to determine growth in reading for the year.

We will do our class presentations on the True Story of the 3 Little Pigs on Tuesday.

Wed.through Friday we will do our final fluency, Brigance, Language, spelling and San Diego Quick Assessments for the year.  All information as to progress will be on the end of year progress updates which will go home with report cards in June.

Beginning next week we will be starting novel studies.  Sixth graders will be reading Shiloh. Seventh grade is reading The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Eighth graders will be exploring the book Who Moved My Cheese.

 

HAVE A SAFE AND FUN SPRING BREAK

CRCT testing will begin on Tuesday, April 12th.  Reading is tested on Tuesday, L. Arts on Wednesday, Math on Thursday, S.S. on Friday and Science on Monday the 18th.

Your child has worked hard the past week in reviewing reading and test taking strategies.  I am proud of each and everyone of them-they have been working hard.

Just a few test taking tips:

Get plenty of rest

Eat a good breakfast

Have confidence in yourself

Read carefully

Use process of elimination

Relax

 

I hope all of you enjoy this next week off!!

EXTRA HELP

Extra help is available every Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 8:15 to 9 am in room 7D2 with Mr. Schott for the CRCT.  I encourage all students to take advantage of this opportunity.

Also, just a reminder that your child can obtain extra help for the CRCT by utilizing Skills Tutor or USA test prep.  Students have all this information in their agendas and have been using these two practice sites once a week in class.

WEEK OF 3/6/11

Just a reminder that students can earn up to two extra credit grades(worth a HW grade) by taking either a CRCT prep test on Skills Tutor or USA test prep.  In order to get credit the student has to get an 85% or better on a test and then parent can e-mail me with the score.

Please check Pinnacle for grades as the nine weeks ends on March 18th.  Report cards will be sent home on March 24th.

8th grade parents-students have one project due this nine weeks and it is due on Friday, March 11th.  It is a reserach project on Georgia authors.  Please check with your student for details.

WEEK OF FEB. 14TH

Signed progress reports are due back to me by Friday, Feb. 18th.  Students have highlighted any missing grades and wrote an explanation as to why they received this grade.  Please make sure you review progress reports with your child.

Feb. book reports are due by Feb. 28th

On the bottom the the progress report students have written down a CRCT practice site.  They have their log in and password information in their agendas(it is their lunch number for both).  Students are encouraged to take tests at home and any grade over an 85 should be printed and given to me for extra credit. 

Have a great week off!!

WEEK OF FEB. 14TH

Happy Valentine's Day to all!!

Important information:

Progress Reports go home on Wed. the 16th-Along with this progress report Palmer has been selected to participate in a Georgia Department of Education Special Student Services Survey.  This will be sent home with your child on Wednesday.  Please make sure that you fill this out and drop it in the mail at your convenience.

Feb. book projects are due on the 28th of Feb.  Project information was passed out on Feb. 1st and attached to your child's agenda.  Additionally each student was taken to the media center and picked out a book of their choice.

Eighth graders also have a project on Georgia Authors due on March 11th.  This assignment was discussed and modeled on the 2/9. 

We will begin CRCT challenges when we return from winter break.  I urge all of you to have your child practice on line with USA test prep or Skills Tutor. 

Have a great week off next week.

 

WEEK OF JANUARY 31-FEB. 4

Monday-Word fun-We will be reviewing vocabulary from recent stories, having a spelling contest and figuring out word meanings from content areas.

Tuesday-working on stories in Reader's Journey and going over book project for this month

Wednesday-Seventh grade and Eighth grade switch connection times today so 8th can visit with high school representatives.  Sixth and seventh grade will finish up Reader's Journey work

Thursday-Skills Tutor or USA TEST PREP-reinforcement of test taking skills

Friday-8th graders get Georgia Author's Project info and all work on word and number games as well critical thinking activities

Reading projects for all students will be due by Friday, Feb. 25th.

 

WEEK OF JAN. 17TH

Hope everyone enjoyed their unexpected week long break.

Just a reminder that there is a reading project due on Jan. 31st.  Remember Habit #3-Put First Things First.  What is your plan to complete this project?

We will finish up Seven Habits this week.

On Friday we will be practicing the skill of compare and contrast as well as playing some word games to improve vocabulary.

WELCOME BACK

I hope everyone enjoyed their time off. 

Report cards will go home this Friday, January 7th.  Students will return to homeroom at the end of the day to pick these and progress updates.

We cleaned out notebooks and established personal and academic goals for this nine weeks on Tuesday and Wednesday.  We completed our VIP sheets as well as our I AM FROM poems. 

By January 31st you child will need to read the book they picked on Tuesday and complete their think-tac-toe activities.  These must be turned in by the 31st,

We will spend the next few days talking about the book Seven Habits of Highly Effective Teens and completing activities to reinforce these habits.

We will be using a variety of reading sources to reinforce learned reading strategies and the reading process in the next seven weeks.

I will start a CRCT prep contest in the next few weeks and will keep you updated as to what this will look like.

Have a great month.

Please remember we do not have school in observance of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day on Monday, Jan. 17th.  We will be reading an article on MLK and do a compare and contrast activity between he and Cesar Chavez.

 

HAPPY HOLIDAYS

Have a very safe and very happy holiday.  I look forward to seeing all of you in 2011.  Remember no school on Monday, Jan. 3rd and classes resume on Jan. 4th.