Christmas is Almost Here!

It's Advent and we're busy getting ready for Christmas! I'm very grateful to my students who decorated my classroom and made it look festive. It's beautiful!

Please remind your parents and other family members to attend our Christmas program on Thursday at 6:30 p.m. There will be a very special performance by the teachers and I'm sure nobody wants to miss that!

Remind Your Parents about Conferences!

Welcome back students! You have half days on Thursday and Friday so that your parents can come in to meet with the teachers. Please remind your parents to attend! The time and date of your conference should be listed in your agenda.

We have a lot of work to do this week:
6th grade - Your test over The Westing Game will be on Tuesday.
You have a vocabulary test on Tuesday.
Your revised creative writing story is also due on Tuesday.
We will begin reading No More Dead Dogs by Gordon Korman on Wednesday.

7th grade - You have a vocabulary test on Tuesday and your creative writing story is also due.
We will finish reading The Watsons Go to Birmingham tomorrow and will begin
the real-life history behind the events of the story.

8th grade - Your test over A Raisin in the Sun is tomorrow! Good luck! We will begin reading
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle on Wednesday.

Thanksgiving Vacation Is Here!

There's no homework this weekend. Enjoy your time with your family and friends! As a side note, if any of your family members has a recipe for tamales that uses leftover turkey, I'd love to hear it!
Rest up, be safe, and have fun!

We Should Be Thankful for Each Other

As Thanksgiving approaches, I'm reflecting a lot about how thankful I am to be your teacher. Sometimes I get tired and cranky at this time of year, but I promise I really do love teaching all of you! We'll have a wonderful 5-day weekend next week to spend time with family and rest. Until then, however, we have plenty of work ahead of us! A reminder:

6th/7th Language Arts - Your 8-paragraph stories are due tomorrow at the start of class.

8th Grade - Rough drafts of memory papers are due on Wednesday.
- Final drafts are due on Friday. Extra credit will be given to typed papers.
- Vocabulary test is on Thursday

8th Grade Memory Papers

You must interview your family member about his or her historical memories before Friday morning. The answers to your interview questions are due on Friday. You will be writing the rough drafts of your memory papers on Monday afternoon.

Tomorrow we will begin reading the play A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do!

Our Field Trip by Wesley in 6th Grade

On the big middle school field trip on October 22nd, I went to two places. Those two places were Indiana Dunes and the Cooke Nuclear Power Plant. Not only did we go to those two places, we also got to go to McDonald's.
The first thing we did to start the field trip was to get on a bus. The bus had five TVs. It also had a lot of speakers for all of us students. The bus ride to the dunes was about an hour and a half long.
At the dunes I went on a hike. I hiked about 2 miles; I hiked over dunes and jumped over small streams. At the end of the hike, I had to pick up trash. I saw the Chicago skyline too. That was one of my favorite parts.
On the hike I saw two beaver lodges and one beaver dam. I got to eat lunch by the second beaver lodge. After the hike, I went to the Cooke Nuclear Power Plant. I watched four videos. The videos were all about energy and the power plan. After the videos I got to play games. In all of the games you had to make energy.
After the Cooke Power Plant, Ms.Bridge (the principal)took the whole middle
school to McDonalds.After McDonalds I went back to school. I got picked up and went home. That was the best field trip ever .

Homework 10/25/07

Don't forget: The final drafts of your field trip stories and your language practice worksheets are due tomorrow!

Homework for 10/23/07

6th Grade-

• Character illustrations for The Westing Game are due Thursday.
• Rough drafts of field trip narratives are due Wednesday.
• Final drafts of field trip narratives are due Friday.

7th Grade -

• Your test over Tangerine will be on Wednesday.
• Rough drafts of field trip narratives are due Wednesday.
• Final drafts of field trip narratives are due Friday.

8th Grade -

• Your test over The Giver will be on Wednesday.
• Rough drafts of field trip narratives are due Wednesday.
• Final drafts of field trip narratives are due Friday.

Please plan to attend the St. Adalbert Catholic School Open House and Reunion on Sunday! It will last from 12:15-3:00 pm.

Welcome to Our Classroom Blog!

Welcome!

Beginning today we will be blogging our classroom activities! Students will be recording homework assignments and sharing exciting classroom events here online. The best part about this is that you'll be able to access the blog from your home computers!

If you followed my request and looked carefully at this blog, you will be able to answer an extra-credit question tomorrow in class.

Have a wonderful evening!