Gone Again...

I went to Amarillo to a TAKS M writing training today, January 26th.  I really missed all my kids but I learned a lot of neat ideas.  I can't wait to do some of the projects with my students.  I think they will enjoy them.  Tomorrow we will start school late due to the bad weather.  So every one sleep in just a little bit and be ready to work!!!!

Sentences and more Sentences!

 

Here's another project that my classes worked on to master writing sentences.  Each group was given a simple sentence and their instructions were to expand the sentence by using adjectives and adverbs.  The group with the longest sentence that makes sense won!  

Look what we've been up to!

My classes have really been busy.  We've been working on our Reading skills as well as writing and expanding  complete sentences by using adjectives and adverbs.  Here are some students working on finding different types of sentences in a passage.  Each group that got closest to the right answer received a ticket to be placed in a drawing for some small prizes.  The students did awesome!

Welcome Back!

This day was officially the first day of the new semester.  We will really get busy on TAKS practices.  The students have really been working hard to remember everything that they've learned so far and use it to successfully complete the TAKS.  This week we will have a practice TAKS reading test on Wednesday and Thursday.  If necessary we will finish up on Friday.

Here are some pictures from class and as you can tell, some of the students are really working hard journaling on the computer.

Just a reminder, we will be working on TAKS practices every week until our test!