We completed a challenge today in class! How fun. What a great day it was. Have a restful break.

Our partner literary essays look great! Nice work. They presentations that started today were well done. After break, we will work on a biography unit. If you can, please find the time to find a biography that you can use to write an informational report. If you do not have the time to do this over break, we will get you to the LMC at school, but your choices of books may be more limited.

Our partner literary essays are going to be finished up tomorrow. They will be shared with the class in LA. In SS, we will finish our group work from chapter 7 tomorrow and look at the mummification process.

Hi there families! Thanks for all the supplies for our mummification work on Thursday. We are still in need of boxes of salt if you can spare one. THANKS! Above- students at work on their partner literary essay!

We are completing a literary essay with our writing partner this week that focuses on theme/lesson learned in the text. In Social Studies, we have started to study Ancient Egypt. We are going to make natron- used in mummification- this week, if you can spare a box of salt, please sent it in by Thursday. THANKS!

We are looking at texts in LA to compare and find a common lesson learned or theme. For the next week, the students will work together with their writing partners to create a non-traditional essay comparing two stories. Latin Stems quiz is Monday!

Great day here today! We wrapped up some assignments we were working on. If you have a chance, check out the email I sent out. They are looking for parent volunteers for the Snowflake Dance next Wednesday. I attached the Google doc in that email if you can volunteer some time. Thanks!

We worked on the SS assessment today and tomorrow you will need to finish them. We will look at other ways to think about literary essays tomorrow. Your in class essay is due THIS Friday. Your at home essay is due on Friday, December 19th or January 5th.

We continue to find ourselves immersed in literary essays. The AT-HOME literary essay will be due on Friday, December 19th in final published piece form. There is a Social Studies assessment tomorrow covering the 4 Empires of Mesopotamia. In Reading, assignment 5 is due Thursday.

Hello there! Today was a busy day for a short Monday. In Language Arts we worked on our conclusion paragraphs for our literary essay. We used phrases like: Throughout the story, In the end, As you can see..... The students will have a new short story given to them on Wednesday. With this story, they need to create a completely independent HOME literary essay. More on that later..... In Social Studies, we finished up learning about the 4 Mesopotamian Empires. Tomorrow, we will view an assessment that will be given to them to complete on Wednesday using their AVID notes.

Social Studies continues to have us reading and talking about the 4 Empires of Mesopotamia. The notes we take are expected to stay in their binders behind the Social Studies tab- in case there is an assessment in the future that is open note! Our claim/thesis statements turned into full introduction paragraphs today. Have a great weekend.

Here is an example of one body paragraph from our literary essays. Note that part of the claim is restated to show the reader what the paragraph will be about. Use this as example as you write all three of your body paragraphs for homework.

Reading- Assignment 3 is due on Friday. In LA we took one of our 5 claims and rewrote it using the title, author and more precise & figurative language. For homework, CLOSE read the short story- read with a pencil. Tomorrow, short stories should be marked with numbers, stars, circles, etc.... In Social Studies we worked on Cornell note-taking.

In Reading, assignment 2 is due on Wednesday. In Language Arts, we learned how to rewrite our claims in five different styles. If that work was NOT done in class today, it is homework for tonight. We took a Social Studies assessment as well. Have a peaceful night!

We have a Social Studies assessment on chapter 4 tomorrow- the bonus page is shown above (this can push your score from a 3 to a 3.5 or 4). Reading- assignment 1 is due tomorrow.