Friday 6-3-16

I just realized I have been not keeping up with my blog this week. Sorry about that.

Homework this week has been only from me. It has been reading the text for social studies and of course, keeping up with your own personal reading.

Next week homework will be a bit light also.  The intent is to finish the Canada assessment in class on Monday. I will grade it Monday night, BUT students will be allowed to work on it outside of class and re-submit (or ask me to re-look at it) until Thursday. The caveat is students cannot get help with this - so if I look at it on Monday night and is significantly more sophisticated by Thursday I may get suspicious.

Here is a link to the assessment if you are interested.

Today I showed how I would do this using google slides and U.S. History. Here is the beginning of my model so you get the idea. Ms. Lamb's example Canada final using the USA. Students are allowed to do this on paper or using some other online tool. They may even use my template (with generous support from Ms. Nicolle.)

There are two more big things coming next week.
On Tuesday we start our final writing piece. It is an argument. Students will try to convince me in writing that they are ready to go to seventh grade. They will use evidence from their work this year to prove their case.  This will be due on Friday.

We will continue reading The Lightning Queen. We may or may not finish it. I may allow kids who want to to borrow it to finish at home. I only have 20 copies or I would let everyone take it home. It is a DCF book for this year. Maybe we will finish it.

The other thing that I have heard about is a math final next Friday. More on that Monday.

On Monday the 13th we are planning a Camp Energy Day. We will have some summer camp type activities going on.

On Tuesday the 14th we will have a 45 minute move up day experience. Everyone will get to meet their seventh grade teachers!!!!! Then we will have a 5, 6, 7 field day to send everyone off to a happy summer. Grade 8 will be all graduated on Monday night.